{"id":256547,"date":"2022-07-25T08:07:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T08:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=256547"},"modified":"2022-07-27T07:36:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T07:36:37","slug":"arms-makers-scramble-to-defeat-putins-hypersonic-missile-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=256547","title":{"rendered":"Arms makers scramble to defeat Putin\u2019s hypersonic missile threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Russian Zircon hypersonic cruise missile, which can travel at nine times the speed of sound<\/p>\n

Howard Mustoe \u2013 The Telegraph July 24, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Arms companies are scrambling to come up with a defence against Russian and Chinese hypersonic missiles amid fears they could offer a decisive advantage to hostile powers.<\/p>\n

Andy Thomis, head of the defence company Cohort, said that his business is working on a project to defeat the weapons, which can travel five times faster than the speed of sound and are\u00a0currently extremely difficult to shoot down.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr Thomis, whose company is based in Reading and supplies kit for Royal Navy submarines, said: \u201cBeing able to develop convincing countermeasures against them is a really important step forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a real challenge. There’s no doubt about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Typical rockets fly at about Mach 3, while hypersonics travel at Mach 5 or faster.<\/p>\n

As well as being incredibly fast, they have an unpredictable flight path that makes them hard to track.<\/p>\n

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DF-17 hypersonic glide vehicles on parade in Beijing<\/p><\/div>\n

China reportedly fired a hypersonic projectile around the globe in a test last year, while in May\u00a0a Russian warship test launched a Zircon cruise missile\u00a0<\/a>that can travel at nine times the speed of sound.<\/p>\n

The weapons typically fall into two categories –\u00a0a powered variant which uses a particularly fast type of jet engine called a scramjet, or a projectile launched from high in the sky that bounces off the atmosphere to reach its target.<\/p>\n

Either way, to develop a good defence against these weapons, a system must monitor a much larger area to detect and intercept them.<\/p>\n

Wes Kremer, president of US arms maker Raytheon Missiles & Defense, said that the focus is likely to be monitoring missiles from space using large constellations of satellites.<\/p>\n

The only concession the missiles offer is that they are comparatively delicate because of the huge amounts of heat they must manage.<\/p>\n

Mr Kremer said: \u201cIt doesn’t take much damage to that heat dissipation system to quickly have a burn through and destroy it.<\/p>\n

Defence against hypersonic missiles \u201cis in its infancy,\u201d he added, with only one project in the US working on a remedy.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s rapid military expansion is particularly driving demand, Mr Thomis said.<\/p>\n

Last year China spent $293bn on defence, helping Cohort to win orders for anti submarine warfare equipment from the Philippines and other nations in the region.<\/p>\n

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Russia and China both have hypersonic weapons fully operational and deployed. In contrast the West doesn\u2019t have any. Nor does it have an effective defence against them <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":254177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256550,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256547\/revisions\/256550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/254177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}