India announces successful hypersonic missile test
India announces successful hypersonic missile test
India joins a handful number of countries known to possess hypersonic weapons programs.
India successfully test-fired a hypersonic missile, joining the elite group of nations with such capabilities. The missile, developed by the DRDO, can carry payloads over 1,500 km and has demonstrated high accuracy.
I have always intended to lookup the difference between supersonic and hypersonic. I knew ss meant > speed of sound, I learned hypersonic means >= 5x speed of sound. If that thing can fly 1500 km, it can do it in ~17min. That’s like Hamburg to Kyiv in the time it takes to make an Aldi Margarita pizza in the oven(with extra tomatoes, cheese, basil, and garlic salt)… or get one delivered to Hamburg from Kyiv via hypersonic missile.
"High accuracy" I mean, technically if it has to make slightly too much of a course correction it'll destroy itself lol.
I wonder at what rate of turn a hypersonic missile will experience hitting the air like a wall of concrete.
Instant gratification culture. Got to have things faster and faster.
Back in my day we had to wait a whole fortnight for our enemies to ride up on a donkey and insult our onion harvest!