The new hypersonic missile variants concern the USA and NATO.

Russia is taking new 3M22 Zircon missiles in service. Zircon is an air-breathing scramjet or ramjet propeller missile. The speed range of the missile is Mach 5 to Mach 9. And maybe the Mach 9 model uses scramjet. And Mach 5 model uses ramjet. Wikipedia says that the Zircon uses scramjet, so there may be two models of that missile other is reserved only for the Russian fleet. And another is the export model. 

Russia has another hypersonic weapon already in service. That is an air-launched Kh-47M2 Kinzhal which uses a conventional rocket engine. 

The speed of the Kinzhal missile is Mach 10 to Mach 12. But its flight range is more limited. The dropping aircraft is normally a TU-22B or MiG-31 that takes the missile near to its target. And then it can launch that missile.And the system uses regular rocket engines. 

China has two long-range hypersonic missiles in service. DF-21D and DF-26B. Those weapons are meant to destroy the US fleet of aircraft carriers.  DF-21D is an anti-ship ballistic missile. And the DF-26B is an anti-ship variant of the DF-26A missile. 

DF-17 is a ballistic missile with a hypersonic glider. There is the possibility that the DF-17 glider is installed in the DF-21 and DF-26 missiles. There is also claiming that the Zircon is a copy of the DF-17 missile. But Russians say that Zircon uses scramjet engines and is more advanced than any of those weapons before. 

So those Chinese missiles are ballistic missiles that can launch from far away in the drylands. Those weapons are more conventional IRBM (Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles) with precision-guided warheads than some hypersonic cruise missiles. 

There are visions that the scramjet-driven cruise missile can be shoot to ballistic trajectory by using conventional rockets. The rocket takes that cruise missile out of the atmosphere. And then the cruise missile falls back into the atmosphere. When the cruise missile's speed increases enough high. The scramjet engine can start. 

The hypersonic cruise missile can fly at a very high speed at a high altitude. The operational altitude of the hypersonic scramjet-driven missile is higher than a regular cruise missile. But it is lower than ICBM missiles. 

That makes defense against those hypersonic weapons difficult. The altitude where hypersonic missiles are flying is very high. That denies overheating of the body of the missile. The missile's speed must be high enough that the scramjet engine can get enough oxygen. 

There are tested laser weapons against those hypersonic cruise systems. Hypersonic cruise missiles that use stealth technology are hard to detect. If the defender can calculate the trajectory of the incoming hypersonic cruise missile there is possible to aim counter-actions against those missiles. The hypersonic missile can have a microwave transmitter in its nose. That transmitter or microwave weapon gets its energy from a rapid air generator. 

That system makes defense against hypersonic weapons more difficult. The microwaves are giving EMP impulses to the target. And those impulses can also destroy or damage the incoming surface-to-air missiles that shot against the track of the hypersonic missile. 

The new 6th. generation jet fighters can also have the ability to shoot down hypersonic missiles. Those jet fighters might also have the ability to fly with hypersonic speed and shoot down hypersonic targets by using some traditional weapon or laser weapon. So the ultimate weapon will face the counter weapon. And then some new solution makes that counter weapon useless. 

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/08/hypersonic-weapons-meet-speed-of-light-defenses/

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/08/df-26b-how-china-could-sink-a-navy-aircraft-carrier-for-2000-miles-away/

https://www.uawire.org/media-russian-hypersonic-missile-zircon-is-just-a-smaller-replica-of-chinese-dongfeng-17

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-17

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-47M2_Kinzhal

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Writing about the politics in the Crimean peninsula and in the world of nuclear forces

Writing about the politics in the Crimean peninsula and in the world of nuclear forces


The dream of control Crimean peninsula and the traffic in the Black Sea has turned against Russia. The influence of that kind of international acts is that other nations have started to keep Russia as the aggressive and provocative neighbor, and this kind of things are forcing the western nations to go together in military cooperation, and another thing is that the Russian way to talk about their weapons as the strike-equipment, and aggressive way to speak, we must realize that this kind of things are justifying the ABM (Anti Ballistic Missile) bases in East Europe.

Those ABM missiles are meant for the protection the NATO, but actually, many writers forget the thing that the same weapons can use against ground targets, as well they can strike against ballistic missiles. When we are thinking about the missiles like THAAD, what has the kinetic energy warhead, those missiles can give the iron projectiles very high speed, and when the steel ball hits the ground with the speed of 15 000 kilometers per hour, the impact energy would terminate the target.

The metal melts as the drop, which consists the melted steel, and that thing could be very devastating against the point targets. The benefit of the THAAD system is that it would not consist the radioactive material, and that means that if those missiles would go in the hands of terrorists, they can use the fuel in the bombs, but the thing is that the destruction is more limited than the use of the nuclear bomb. So the thing is that THAAD cannot use against its creators.

The developing of those missiles started in the 1980s when the MGM-131 Pershing  II missiles wanted to equip with conventional strike capacity. The suitable system for that purpose seemed the iron nails, which would launch against the target. The idea of that weapon was to create the "shotgun-type" system, what can use against enemy airfields and missiles. The system was planned to launch to the opposite direction of the trajectory of the enemy missiles, and the iron projectiles would hit the target with very high speed. That system could be the tactical version of the ballistic missile, which cannot use against its owners. The problem with highly mobilized battlefield systems is that they are good targets for the terrorists, and that's why the military commanders have been searching the replacement options for the highly radioactive isotopes.

The system what was used before THAAD was SPRINT, the ABM system, what was equipped with high yield thermonuclear warhead, what had 5 mt destructive power. The mission of that warhead was to cause the large fireball and powerful EMP pulse, what would damage and vaporize the incoming missiles. But those warheads can be used also against ground troops. The thing was that the nuclear warhead could be dangerous in the wrong hands even if the detonation of the nuclear system would fail, because of the radioactive material would be used in the radioactive bombs. And that's why the military is looking for replacements for those weapons.

When we are talking about the contract, what denies the developing and producing the intermediate range ballistic- and cruise missiles, we must say that the contract does not have an effect if it would just break by every nation, what are involving it. In the real world, the thing is that IRBM missiles and the highly mobile nuclear missile systems need sharp location system if those missiles would be used against hardener silos and other targets.

For the operation, the missile needs two coordinates the beginning coordinate of the flight and the coordinate where to fly. And the GPS would give the first coordinate, where the launcher is, and the second coordinate or the end of the trajectory would come from the intelligence or reconnaissance systems, what are giving the coordinates to the warheads of the missile.

The beginning point of the trajectory is important because that point is used to calculate, how missile must fly to the second point. The GPS is a very effective tool for that purpose because it can give the location to the missile in seconds, and after that, the unit can continue the trip. The entire operation would take only a couple of seconds, and that's why the destroying those missiles would be very difficult, and after the nuclear missiles have flown away, the targets would be destroyed even if the launching vehicles would be destroyed.

And many people think that NATO has more advanced technology in that area than Russia and things like multi-channel communication with packed data packages makes the jamming of that kind of systems very difficult, because of the communication between location satellite and receiving system is happening in very short time periods. Those computerized and highly secured systems are hard to locate because entire communication would be done in a couple of nanoseconds, what is the time for the transmitting the coded data package, that contains the packed and coded location information. And the biometric safety systems makes them useless in the wrong hands. That means if the wrong person takes the device, would the information about that send to the command center.