Cold war resurrected? Move to P/N pls

[sillymofo]

According to this,

"Russia has successfully tested a hypersonic weapon capable of penetrating any prospective missile shield, a senior general said Thursday.
The prototype weapon proved it could maneuver so quickly as to make "any missile defense useless," Col.-Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, the first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, said at a news conference.
He said that the prototype of a new hypersonic vehicle had proved its ability to maneuver while in orbit, thereby making it able to to dodge an enemy's missile shield"

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo
<a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/19/92345.shtml" target=blank>According to this,</A>

"Russia has successfully tested a hypersonic weapon capable of penetrating any prospective missile shield, a senior general said Thursday.
The prototype weapon proved it could maneuver so quickly as to make "any missile defense useless," Col.-Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, the first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, said at a news conference.
He said that the prototype of a new hypersonic vehicle had proved its ability to maneuver while in orbit, thereby making it able to to dodge an enemy's missile shield"

The question is, a) is this just the Russians spewing BS, and b) if they can make a prototype, do they have the actual cash to make any of these, considering Russia's financial state?

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Wait, wtf? An article essentially destroying the Republican pet project on newsmax?! Has hell frozen over or something?!

 

[AvesPKS]

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo
<a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/19/92345.shtml" target=blank>According to this,</A>

"Russia has successfully tested a hypersonic weapon capable of penetrating any prospective missile shield, a senior general said Thursday.
The prototype weapon proved it could maneuver so quickly as to make "any missile defense useless," Col.-Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, the first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, said at a news conference.
He said that the prototype of a new hypersonic vehicle had proved its ability to maneuver while in orbit, thereby making it able to to dodge an enemy's missile shield"

The question is, a) is this just the Russians spewing BS, and b) if they can make a prototype, do they have the actual cash to make any of these, considering Russia's financial state?

I'm more surprised that they have the money to spend on anti-missile-defense technology. Don't we send them billions in aid every year?

 

[tallest1]

Considering that they've been working on some impressive underwater missile technology lately. I wouldn't be surprised if this were true.

With us developing mini-nukes, spending on missile shields, plans to put weapons in space, and gawd knows what else, I'm especially not surprised that other countries have been flexing their military muscle lately.

 

[sillymofo]

So what now, we're gonna invade their country too?