Implying I can read frog I'm sorry, I'm neither a negro, nor an Arab.
But why? The West will probably confront Turkey militarily only over the Kurds, on a limited scale (i.e., at worst only an 'intervention'). The damned roaches don't even know whether they want to be on the NATO side, or on the Russian side. They alternate sides and policies every other year to appease one side/ piss off the other. Of all the candidates out there for an invasion (as opposed to an 'intervention' or 'airstrike' etc.) in the ME I would say Turkey was the least likely one.
Angel Ramirez
World's most shot down interdictor since 'nam. even roaches with sidewinders can shoot them down
Fair point but still slower with much inferior climb rate and way more vulnerable to fighter patrols. Foxhounds with Kh-31P would be much better for a quick response strike against armed scouting vessels and frigates with potential Hornet protection. The only aircraft in Russian inventory capable of doing that is Su-34 and it's still inferior at intervention time and running out of AMRAAMs' and Aegis' no escape zone.
Jose Lewis
fixt. I like how you tell these little lies and hope no one notices.
That is picrel the platform for launching the hypersonic maneuvering scramjet warhead.
MiG-31 takes it to altitude and goes supersonic. The booster vehicle (modified iskander solid rocket booster) takes it to about mach 10. Warhead then separates and the scramjet onboard the warhead sustains that speed through extremely high g maneuvers which prevent shootdown. Then it goes clean through a ship, no explosives needed… although it can carry a nuke.
Torps are subsonic and very slow. Any vessel can detect the launch or it's cruise phase. Once a torpedo is detected you know roughly from where the enemy fired it, and can start engaging whoever fired it after defeating the torpedo. Missiles move much faster and can even go supersonic. If you fire a torpedo-missile at supersonic velocity towards a target and have it drop into the water before CIWS can engage it you essentially conceal your own launch location, because the sound of the launch won't reach the enemy vessel before the torpedo-missile impacts the water and begins moving towards the enemy.
Of course missile launches can be detected via radar, so there is a tradeoff there, but never the less a missile can get far closer to the target than a torpedo can before the enemy has any time to react. It's the best of both worlds, but also with unique disadvantages. You now basically double the required volume per missile/torpedo for one.
Lincoln Gomez
I'm sorry you're retarded, but Turkey was not the correct answer.
John Myers
I call bullshit in that one.
Nicholas Wood
Perhaps i was caught up hoping for the best-case scenario, everyone dogpiles on norks.
NASA developed two air-launched unmanned technology demonstrator platforms, the x-43 scramjet, which achieved mach 9, and the x-51 waverider, which achieved sustained mach 5 flight for a little over two minutes. the x-43 was designed in 2003-4, and the waverider in 2010. Both fell a little short of their stated goals, though; the x-43 being meant to break mach 10 and the x-51 meant to fly for at least 300 seconds. Theres a chance we have some secret operational supersonic cruise missiles.
Oliver Adams
It's unlikely anyone will go after the DPRK any time soon. While their nuclear devices are primitive and would most likely end up being intercepted and doing minimal damage, the political fallout of one hitting Seoul would be immense. That's not to mention how it could potentially galvanize Russia & China to enter a hot war or how it doesn't benefit Israel at all. I'm betting on some shenanigans with Lebanon, since Israel has been intimating another war with them but after the debacle that happened last time, should doubt their ability to win on their own. It will probably be sold on the premise that Hezbollah is a scary terrorist faction that hates the greatest ally, holds the Lebanese people hostage and dictates government policy. In other words, Taliban 2.0.
Nolan Moore
An artillery shell handles 15000g, and a much more fragile conventional missile can do 50g. This thing is somewhere between those two numbers, likely around 100g.
Nah we copied scramjet tech from east block documents in 1990s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet_programs#Russia They basically taught us how to do scramjets properly, most of our developments before that were artillery shells.
