Ordinance can be delivered anywhere in the world in less than an hour without putting American military lives in jeopardy. Although it’s only for conventional weapons at this point, with a new administration, I see a new generation of nuclear weapons, including the nuclear tipped cave busters.
It’s definitely a must for our nuclear arsenal which hasn’t delivered a new weapons system since the cruise missile, and that was back when Carter was president. Time for an upgrade.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywhere in the world in less than a hour.
Launched by rocket from Hawaii at 1130 GMT, the “Advanced Hypersonic Weapon,” or AHW, glided through the upper atmosphere over the Pacific “at hypersonic speed” before hitting its target on the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands, a Pentagon statement said.
Kwajalein is about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) southwest of Hawaii. The Pentagon did not say what top speeds were reached by the vehicle, which unlike a ballistic missile is maneuverable.
Scientists classify hypersonic speeds as those that exceed Mach 5 — or five times the speed of sound — 3,728 miles (6,000 kilometers) an hour.
Of course the Russians will protest this new bomb and likely try to put it in some unnecessary arms treaty that diminishes our capabilities, and a weak president would agree to it. Kinda like that last treaty signed about a year ago. Or better yet, some naive president might want to share the technology to show our good intentions. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen by sending Barack Obama home next year.
Si vis pacem, para bellum. – Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
TRANSLATION: If you want peace, prepare for war.