Incredible things are happening in Yemen

Yemen has hypersonic missiles before the US does?

multipolar world let’s goooo

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Not really, it’s “just” a ballistic missile that reaches a hypersonic velocity at some point in its flight, likely in the terminal phase.

Russia did get a “true” hypersonic weapon before the US though, in the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile.

From visual inspection and the statement from Ansar Allah, this appears to be the combination of two different Iranian ballistic missile designs. Quite ingenious. I’ll post further analysis in the news megathread and link it here shortly.

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What’s the difference between a “true” hypersonic missile and this? Genuine question, I know nothing about missiles

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10 points

Terminal situational awareness, terminal maneuver capability, and terminal range extension are all traits typical of the modern definition of a hypersonic weapon in my opinion.

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Going really fast isn’t helpful if you’re not capable of steering at that speed. The V2 was technically a hypersonic missile.

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14 points

The speed is the easy part, travelling in a straight line. The difficult part is getting the rocket to manoeuvre at high speed.

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66 points

May these missles inflict more casualties upon the genocidal entity and help in liberating the people of Palestine

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2 million Israelis hid in bunkers because of a single one of these lmao May a million more rain down on Israel

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38 points

inB4 the united states has called for an immediate ban on rockets bearing the Palestinian flag

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Hell yeah, dude

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