planefag We helped the Russians work out the flaws to where it was usable as a weapon during the Ma-31 project. The Russians took the money/fixes and put it in active service then sold it to the PRC.

You could say - we built our own threat.

Heidi Monhaupt planefag You don't want to go hypersonic at 9 feet above the water... not unless you want really short range and it melting about 2 seconds downrange.

Know your weapons and how they work.

The prime work horse of sea skimmers at high speed these days is the BrahMos from India or the…

planefag Correct - range was way too short.

MA-31 (aka Kh-31 Krypton) sold to Boeing by Russia for a reported $1 million per missile.

Joseph James planefag The precise difference is hypersonic can't do 30 feet above the water without melting and having a really short range (physics is a bitch)... So high alt. only.

Supersonic sea skimmers doing Mach 2 at 30 feet are lethal and radar doesn't see them until they hit your horizon.

That is a Friday wrap!

Patriotism

I thought all classified information connected to the origins of Covid-19 was already supposed to be declassified.

Two censored documents indicate that the pandemic started at Wuhan lab and was covered up by the CCP
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MAY CONSUMER SENTIMENT: Collapsing (even further).

That’s Bidenomics!

Missiles are great, but resupply is a challenge in a warzone.
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'The U.S. Air Force will not repair and instead will divest one B-2 Spirit stealth bomber that was damaged in a ground accident, shrinking an already small fleet.'
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Price war could backfire on Chinese carmakers.
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ELECTION: Democrats rigged the primary dates to keep RFK Jr from running against Biden. As a result, Biden doesn’t qualify to appear on the ballot in Ohio per state law. If lawmakers don’t change the law Biden will lose the state.

China in particular is expanding their election interference efforts by creating fake social media accounts that “push narratives and sow divisiveness,”
thehill.com/policy/defense…

US insurance and home inspection software provider Porch Group is suing China Construction Bank Corp, China's third-biggest lender by assets, for allegedly enabling a 'massive fraud' that caused 'monumental losses' for Porch.

Porch and its units accused the Chinese lender of…

#ANTIFA has set its targets to go after weapons manufacturers that supply Israel. Let's counterprotest these Communist traitors.

In China, foreign reporters now get tailed and tracked 24/7.

The IT company targeted in a Chinese hack that accessed the data of hundreds of thousands of Ministry of Defence staff failed to report the breach for months.
amp.theguardian.com/technology/art…

You want proof but close your eyes and cover your ears.

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The Yemen-based Houthis have told China and Russia their ships can sail through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden without being attacked, sources say bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

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