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originally posted by: peter_kandra
a reply to: seattlerat
I'm not saying it's not possible, but why would we use one of our most advanced hypersonic missiles on a non-critical target like this? There has to be a dozen ways to accomplish the same thing without potentially jeopardizing sensitive technology.
PS. I've also always thought that our hypersonic program(s) are ahead of what's publicly stated and that the reported "failures" are just to throw off China and Russia.
originally posted by: peter_kandra
a reply to: seattlerat
I'm not saying it's not possible, but why would we use one of our most advanced hypersonic missiles on a non-critical target like this? There has to be a dozen ways to accomplish the same thing without potentially jeopardizing sensitive technology.
PS. I've also always thought that our hypersonic program(s) are ahead of what's publicly stated and that the reported "failures" are just to throw off China and Russia.
originally posted by: peter_kandra
a reply to: seattlerat
I'm not saying it's not possible, but why would we use one of our most advanced hypersonic missiles on a non-critical target like this? There has to be a dozen ways to accomplish the same thing without potentially jeopardizing sensitive technology.
PS. I've also always thought that our hypersonic program(s) are ahead of what's publicly stated and that the reported "failures" are just to throw off China and Russia.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: seattlerat
Monkey Werx is known for hyperbole, and for massively exaggerating on his channel. He recently claimed the WC-135 was in Europe sniffing for Russian nuclear weapons. First, that's not how it works. Second, the only existing WC-135 just recently went to Offutt, and isn't operational yet. He also claimed recently that Biden has no pride in the US, because he flew to Europe on a plane using MC46 as the callsign, with 28000 trailing behind it. MC46 was the press plane flying ahead of Biden and Air Force One. He has also claimed the C-2 Greyhound is a smaller version of the E-2 Hawkeye that the carrier uses for the AWACS mission.
As for his claim here, the P-8 was out of Keflavik, not the US. They are staging out of there a lot. The P-8s don't fly from the US, and return to the US. They're forward deployed aircraft. The aircraft was over the pipelines between the two explosions. The MK54, with HAAWC or not, can't hit a stationary target, on the bottom of the ocean. Torpedoes are designed to home on noise, and track moving targets. A pipeline on the bottom has all that ground clutter around it, so the torpedo can't differentiate between the pipeline and the background.
The hex code used, AE6851, is in multiple databases as belonging to a P-8A, and has been tracked multiple times. Including near Gibraltar, and out of Keflavik. August 26th, it was tracked crossing between Gibraltar and Tangier, into the Alboran Sea.