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American missile would fly to Mach 17
José PEDRO Magalhães Ramos
7/18/2020
According to CNN, a senior US military officer reportedly reported that in March of this year the country tested a weapon capable of reaching seventeen times the speed of sound.
According to the officer, the weapon would not only be very fast, but also capable of developing erratic flight paths, which would leave a huge pineapple in the hands of armies that eventually have to defend themselves from these weapons.
The intention of the US armed forces appears to be to master hypersonic technology and to deploy it even on cruise missiles that, however and according to CNN, would not have nuclear capability (to be checked!).
Hypersonic missile technology is not exactly new. Perhaps Russia is the most developed country in this field. Other nations also militate in the area, but specifically the most notable weapons in this field of military technology appear to be the Russian Kinzhal Missile ("dagger") a missile against ships and targets on land that, according to some, may have made the ships of war as we know it today in something obsolete (although this may not be true).
The fact is, against the Kinzhal, once fired at a ship or land target, there doesn't seem to be much to do to defend against it.
And there is the Avantgarde system, also Russian, that flies at the home of Mach 25, but this is not a missile, but a planing warhead that changes the scenery of that famous "MAD" war - Mutual Assured Destruction - because the planing warhead maneuvers madly in the reentry making any defense against it impossible.
This warhead appears to be already a reality in the Russian armed forces, but possibly no other country has an equivalent weapon at this time.
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José PEDRO Magalhães Ramos
He is a professional with almost four decades of experience in aviation. Having worked at Rio Sul and TAM in the 1980s and in the 1990's, joined Vasp where he spent 10 years in the Engineering area. He then created and operated the website www.aerospace.com.br for 4 years, now extinct and in 2004 he joined Gol, having stayed until 2017 and passed in various technical and business areas. Currently as a technical consultant still-and always-in the aviation area, he dedicates his private time to create and operate this our portal!
   
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