https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/01/bringing-hypersonic-missiles-to-the-fleet-a-case-study-analysis/

To the less military-brained folk here, the concept is to take land-based missile launcher trailer and plops them on the deck of the ships.

This would be like if you have a warship with no gun so you just park a tank on the deck to make it up.

  • Judge_Juche [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Both of the hypersonic weapons named in the report don't even exist yet and they sure as shit aren't being designed to be fired from a truck on a boat. Like they have to design atleast a new launcher for existing boats if not a brand new ship or sub to fire these missiles. Which given show shitty American procurement is, is going to take ten years and cost a trillion dollars.