When Russia launched a total of 95 missiles at major cities across Ukraine on Thursday morning, it included six Kinzhal ballistic missiles that eluded Kyiv's air defenses, the Ukrainian military said. Col. Cedric Leighton (Ret.) and former Defense Secretary Mark Esper discuss. #CNN #News
‘Huge problem’: Retired colonel on Russia hitting Ukraine with 6 hypersonic missiles
5 times the speed of sound? Can you even see one with the eye? That’s insane.
@TJ K ask Nato
@aditya And??? GLONASS does not follow the rules of radio waves?
Both the Chinese and Russian systems function based on the same physical laws that the US GPS systems use.
A mach 5+ object creates a bubble that blocks sending and receiving radio waves like Sat Nav signals, commands from control.
Great excuse for Russia to test their hypersonics and great opportunity for the West to observe and take notes. Anyway if there was a war between NATO and Russia then the Russian mainland would not be off limits so sometimes the best defence is a good offense
@Niklas Wikholm Did you check Russian inventory yourself or……?
@Steven St there are no civilian in Ukraine
Hypersonic missiles are really expensive so that may be the limiting factor.
It’s only expensive if it’s it made in America
@7thsealord you would think a weapon soo expensive would be a precision guided, otherwise it would be useless to call hypersonic if it can’t hit it’s intended target 🎯
@Alex G I heard they are running out of shovels too
@7thsealord Russia has been mass producing them for over 5 years , they got atleast 300 of these missiles available.
And Russia has state own weapons companies which means they don’t work for profit and don’t overcharge while here in the US thr private weapons companies charge triple the price of every weapon they produce
OK It doesn’t take a “rocket scientist” to figure out you are not going to hit something travelling at Mach 5….that said.
On the other hand, it shouldn’t take that same “rocket scientist” to figure out how to hit the facility that built it.
Now if only there was someone that; one…. knew where there built and two had a bit of imagination.
I wonder….
@Nick Mon Some of these ships carry “specials” and ya don’t when they going “AWAL”.
Na…a little “out of the box thinking” that’s what’s needed here.
It wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out you are not informed
@Linus A i forgot Crimea yes, didnt know for Belarus, thanks for info 👍
Its a good thing all of have zero power cause the need to use violence to solve problems is appalling.
Let me get this straight. Russia has a a type of missile that can carry conventional or nuclear warheads and can hit an aircraft carrier or a city like New York and US has no efficient defence against this kind of weapon?
Actually To hit New York Russia has its Sarmat interconental hypersonic missile that can carry 16 nuke war heads.
It’s also a mach 9 missile
A Kinzal max range is about 1000 miles , it can carry a nuke but nowhere near the amount of nukes a Sarmat can carry
Yes, Castrop, this is true. Russia is not Iraq or Afghanistan, never underestimate them like Napoleon and Hitler did.
@axlfrhalo Mach 5? They go mach 10, mach 12…
@Mef Hefty The fallout from the bombs wouldnt last that long as todays nuclear arsenal is mostly hydrogen bombs, and leave very little radioactive fallout compared to a ground burst Hiroshima type bomb, the real issue would be the nuclear power plants shutting and melting down
@Violet_Shift any ballistic missile is supersonic* the merv is the only part of the missile system that is hypersinic but its no longer part of the missile by the time it is. We are talking about the actual missile being fired at hypersonic speed and can redirect its course while at hypersonic speed.
brick by brick, stick by stick, a true madman
The ‘huge problem’ to me is that we don’t have anti-hypersonic defense systems with the monumental amount of money we dump into the military.
We have it.
@SasquatchyCowboy as far as I’ve seen we have only really given Ukraine stuff that we don’t use anymore (other than ammo and artillery)
hehe tax payers money
@Popermen no we don’t, we don’t even have a hypersonic missile, let alone a hypersonic defense system.
While Russia has a Air , Sea and Ground launched hypersonic missiles, kinzal , Zircon and Sarmat.
And I’m pretty sure their s550 defense system can shoot down a hypersonic missile.
You know where most of our 800 billion military budget goes?
Maintaining over 700 military bases around the world costs hundreds of billions.
They were not missiles. They were hypersonic shovels. Russia has ran out of missiles months ago.
@Alex what can you expect when they probably have the same brain knowledge. We.all brainwashed AF.
Yes! And then Russia run out shovels…and now has to use missiles..🤨
Cynic …
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Another development in Russian tactics is that they have long since abandoned their much vaunted battalion tactical group formation and have created a new one called the ‘assault detachment’ which is a battalion sized element consisting of three assault companies, an artillery unit and a command unit. Instead of armor spearheading the assault, they are to act as fire support with infantry platoons and small assault teams moving ahead after artillery strikes. These change in tactics appear to be aimed at preserving Russian armor strength.
Na, the idiots attack with 300 dead guys at a time. Their armor gets destroyed on the way because the morons line up in nice columns.
@Bar they sell some of the diesel from their tanks on the black market. They roll in to Ukraine and use up what is left. They forget to bring along a fuel truck. They die.
@Bar Russia has more armor than any natuon on earth, theyre just adapting to the Javelin missile problem that knocks them out.
@Hugo Phuquerself Russia will probably use artillery to knock out those tanks.
I have Always had high respect for Mark Esper , he was a real bright spot in the Trump administration , he knows his stuff
No. He is a blabberer.
There was a bright spot in the Trump administration?
@Diana Jemison yeah, in the same way there’s a nicest guy in prison or a more preferable infectious disease to contract. I guess what I’m saying is we’re grading on a curve here!
The US really needs to be thinking pro-actively, not only in what we provide to Ukraine in weapons and training, but also regarding inevitable ramping up of aggressions by Russia. By not anticipating we are putting Ukraine is a reactive, defensive position without the tools they need to defend themselves. At the highest governmental levels, there is so much that goes into this difficult decisions making that is not for public consumption. It’s sensitive and complex. We just can’t afford to underestimate the ruthlessness of Russia.
For example, if Ukraine had received long-range sea missiles, the 8 hypersonic equipped ships in the Black see would long be history by now.
Some F16s would take out the Russian planes launching those Kinzhals.
Far simpler, cheaper, and more effective than the fancy lasers mentioned here.
Should stop trying to overwhelm everybody, these other guys have some big missiles too.
The Russians ran out of shovels, so they decided to use hypersonic weapons…
The US military seems better equipped shooting down balloons . The US would be well advised to leave the region and close down NATO,which is overrated. Unless it wants to see Western Europe and the Ukraine obliterated to a nuclear waste bin.
Hypersonic shovels
The new shoulder fired shovel is to go into production. In the mean time grandpa will be swinging the leaf rake and broom.
Hypersonic is too fast, Shahed 2 is too slow. And the Patriot missle has failed everywhere it’s been deployed. It’s so effective, the Saudis decided to make peace with Iran to get the Houthis off their back.
When puttin unveiled those hypersonic weapons 6 years ago our experts was saying “it’s a bluff he is not there yet “
@M A Did you read the article describing it?
@M A You understand that even self propelled missiles with a high degree of manoeuvrability can be considered ballistic? Only non-self propelled objects would count otherwise…
The Nazis had the V1 rocket on 1939 and that was hypersonic in exactly the same way as the Russian ones.
It’s only hypersonic in space, maybe upper atmosphere, and unpowered supersonic flight in the lower atmosphere.
It does not hit with even close to hypersonic speed. Many kms away from the target, it will have the same speed as a normal fighter jet launches missile. Something like the Patriot system can likely shoot them down, the Ukrainians just don’t have that type of AA systems yet.
Also plasma is hyper radar reflective; it doesn’t absorb radar. You can find a bunch of published papers on this.
@knowledge
The Iraq war may have resulted in half a million deaths, considering the Islamic backlash, which included Isis. This is still the greatest of tragedies, but the cause was that Baathist forces of Sadam, aligned with Al Queda, tried to fill a power vacuum. Your post sounds like propaganda, and has no point since the Iraq war has nothing to do with Russian aggression and the war crimes being committed in Ukraine. How does the sin of one country justify that of another?
Colonels are literally a dime a dozen. They come and go
Shovels are very expensive for Russians, so they switched to hypersonic weapons.
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@Mishka Morey Thankyou minuster Goebbels
I can’t imagine anyone having an endless supply of hypersonic weapons.
@name just because you have a million pounds in flour doesn’t mean you have endless bread. Bread doesn’t magically form, neither do supersonic weapons.
@Dan I’m well aware of the fact that this could very well be the inevitable ending to this war, if America insists on try to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia! Which Russia would never accept without sinking everyone along.
@Nassta K But that’s not what they said, they claimed that hypersonic missiles are the only advanced weapons Russia has at their disposal which is why they’re relying solely on Soviet-Era Weapons, which is nonsensical.
Russia has been mass producing these for 5 years , they got atleast 300 of them.
While their Zircon sea launched hypersonic missile has only enter mass production for about a year which means they probably got around 50 of them so far.
Their Sarmat hypersonic intercontinental missile has just enter mass production
Doesn’t matter what kind of missile being used it still kills
Hypersonic are impossible to stop thats why they’re scared.
@King Misogyny exactly
Why is Mark Esper on the show, do you expect people to take him seriously? 😂
My biggest question is how the hell did they detect hypersonic weapons
Radar beams travels at the speed of light. Hypersonic missiles move at a snail’s pace by comparison.
@CountScarlioni Even if the rocket would travel faster than radar, it could be detected, the radar feedback just takes longer to travel back to the radar station. This guy (not you) has no clue what he’s talking about.
hypersonic weapon meaning it would cross the Atlantic in 25 min. Can they detect that? Yes.
this guy usually gets it right
Don Lemon? Lol. No he doesn’t.