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Lockheed Martin to develop ground-launched hypersonic missile

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> That's why we should always be asking our elected officials, why continue the madness? Allowing one's arsenal to slowly become obsolete is akin to disarmament, and unilateral disarmament isn't wise if one values their independence. Similar weapons are being deployed by the US's military rivals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-ZF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avangard_(hypersonic_glide_veh... This particular madnes…

Absurd. When does it end? Or are we just caught in this dangerous resource drain ad infinitum?

> When does it end?

I already answered that:

>> This particular madness will continue until all major powers come to some measure of political unity. A helpful first step would be for all of them to have elected officials.

Alternatively, the US and other democracies could be destroyed and their populations either exterminated or forcefully assimilated into some kind of authoritarian world superstate.

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i wish i was a US Citizen so I could work on things like this. I assume you'd need TS-SCI....

If you are smart enough to work on projects like that you should be putting your efforts to the benefits of humanity, not helping regimes build weapons of mass destruction. We need to end this madness we call the "arms race". This threat is greater than global warming.

It’s too bad that such brilliant innovators as Turing and Von Neumann wasted their careers trying to compete in an arms race against Nazi Germany when they could have been designing better ways to deliver targeted advertising or something useful like that, isn’t it?

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There is an interesting discussion about the effects of hypersonic nuclear capable missiles and glide vehicles here [0]. In summary, this doesn't change much. But what the larger players are afraid of is proliferation of hypersonic missile technology [1]. [0] https://thebulletin.org/2020/01/hypersonic-missiles-new-arms... [1] https://www.rand.org/blog/2018/03/hypersonic-missiles-a-new-...

[0] Is I have to say simply wrong on every point.

Russia has large missile defense deployments S400 and S500 and selling them to lots of countries. This is in no way a secret and a huge bone of contention between Turkey and the US for their purchase of S400.

Hypersonic missiles make aircraft carriers sitting ducks without any defense. This is a pretty damn large shift in military power at the US expense.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That's why we should always be asking our elected officials, why continue the madness? Allowing one's arsenal to slowly become obsolete is akin to disarmament, and unilateral disarmament isn't wise if one values their independence. Similar weapons are being deployed by the US's military rivals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-ZF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avangard_(hypersonic_glide_veh... This particular madnes…

Absurd. When does it end? Or are we just caught in this dangerous resource drain ad infinitum?

You can also surrender independence for the greater cause of unity.

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Lockheed was intimately involved in the current UFO story being promoted. They had worked on and off for years with Bigelow Aerospace. When Bigelow won the AATIP contract, 2 of the 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents were written by highly credible Lockheed scientists.

It’s assumed that Bigelow affiliates initially enchanted Lockheed with the credibility of former intelligence employees. In 2015, Lockheed executives invited Tom DeLonge to a barbecue for Skunk Works. Bigelow affiliates were there.

They were all involved in helping DeLonge’s pitch for media projects to promote aerospace and the Pentagon to younger audiences. UFOs weren’t discussed until the 2nd or 3rd meeting. Detailed here- https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28377/tom-delonges-ori...

Later, prominent executives from Lockheed Skunk Works and a Major General were talking with DeLonge and John Podesta. All under the assumption that Hillary Clinton would win the Presidency.

Later, Lockheed dropped out. It’s impossible to know the extent of what’s happening but it would be illegal for the US Government to engage in disinformation either directly or indirectly. The claim that DeLonge’s operation is controlled by the CIA is false. The former intelligence people working with him are true believers who lack any actual evidence of aliens.

Most likely, a highly sophisticated private group with complex financial incentives is purposely misleading individuals and groups. They’re exploiting naive former government employees and dubious government scientists who skirt the line of fraud in the pursuit of radical technology. And the Air Force uses it for cover and the CIA for national security vectors and foreign disinformation.

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The US military is looking to outfit Starlink, Kuiper and other commercial LEO satellite constellations with hypersonic missiles, for an on-demand kill of any spot on Earth within 90 seconds. Project has been in the works for nearly two decades but the exponential reduction in cost per kg to LEO has made this nightmare finally fully viable.

See Space Development Agency under the newly minted Space Force for more information.

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We have an arms race again! Putin announced hypersonic missiles, and now the US has to have one.

what the russians built, we built in the 50s-60s ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missil... )

It says an airframe was never constructed, let alone tested, much like my perpetual motion machine

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Lockheed was intimately involved in the current UFO story being promoted. They had worked on and off for years with Bigelow Aerospace. When Bigelow won the AATIP contract, 2 of the 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents were written by highly credible Lockheed scientists. It’s assumed that Bigelow affiliates initially enchanted Lockheed with the credibility of former intelligence employees. In 2015, Lockheed exe…

In your opinion, do you think Commander David Fravor is lying about his story or do you think he is "naive" and being purposely misled?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That's why we should always be asking our elected officials, why continue the madness? Allowing one's arsenal to slowly become obsolete is akin to disarmament, and unilateral disarmament isn't wise if one values their independence. Similar weapons are being deployed by the US's military rivals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-ZF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avangard_(hypersonic_glide_veh... This particular madnes…

Absurd. When does it end? Or are we just caught in this dangerous resource drain ad infinitum?

Yes, it's called evolution. It just shifted from genes to memes like "a nation". Or, alternatively, these two happen on different timescales.
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