The U.S. military is pouring resources into the superfast weapons but has struggled to develop them. China and Russia are far ahead.
  • Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
    342·
    1 year ago

    Has anyone else noticed that Western Liberal Armchair Generals seem to consistently just ignore hypersonic missile technology when they make proclamations about how a Great Power War would pan out?

    Like it’s just not a thing to them. And there seems to be tacit agreement among themselves to not bring it up while they suck each other off about hypothetical wars.

    But when you throw “hypersonic missile” into one of their circle jerks they all go flaccid and get really really angry with you. That’s how you know it’s a legit game changer.

    • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
      261·
      1 year ago

      But when you throw “hypersonic missile” into one of their circle jerks they all go flaccid and get really really angry with you

      And claim Russia and China don’t Akschually have them, while Pentagon totes does

    • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      But when you throw “hypersonic missile” into one of their circle jerks they all go flaccid and get really really angry with you.

      You underestimate the gullibility of burgers. I’ve brought up hypersonic missiles to otherwise “apolitical” friends and they just started going on about how a patriot missile system shot one down in Ukraine and how hypersonics aren’t shit.

  • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
    292·
    1 year ago

    Imagine if all the effort that goes into development of new tools of murder would go into development of peaceful things, line mass transit, energy storage, space exploration, agriculture

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      334·
      1 year ago

      I think about that a lot. If humanity chose to devote its collective ingenuity towards productive things we’d probably have moved off fossil fuels by now, have space habitats, and solved aging. The level of technology we have today would absolutely make it possible for us to become a space faring civilization. Instead, we just keep fighting each other while destroying our biosphere.

      • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
        61·
        1 year ago

        Agreed. Its infuriating that currently humanity has enough technological and scientific progress by now to become a very early-stage post-scarcity society, end aging and probably most death in general, ascend to the stars, and eventually crack faster-than-light space travel and one day become advanced enough to circumvent or prevent the heat death of the universe, but for now we’re still goddamn stuck sucking Earth dry and blowing each other up for some rich cracker fucks.