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.
In this Defense Intelligence Agency rendering, we can see one possible platform for Saddam Hussein to covertly deploy weapons of mass destruction from. We believe he is capable of building a cruiser which might sail SCUD launchers right into the Mississippi River. Using this platform, which is potentially under construction or sailing at this moment, Iraq could strike any target within the continental US without time to intercept the missiles.
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.
Holy shit this is one of the dumb things my unit was doing when I was in the Marines. We had these multiple rocket launcher trucks and from the conversations higher-level people had about them I basically got the idea that we had been given them before anyone know what to do with them, and half the Colonel's job was figuring out what we could use them for. One of the big brain ideas was to put them on the deck of an aircraft carrier or something and shoot them from there (another was to replace the driver with a remote control and turn it into a drone).
For the record we weren't working with the launcher they're talking about in the article.
As the incoming alarm goes off I have time to look out onto the deck and see some fuckup put this thing in reverse and drive it off the deck.
:doomer:
The American psyche is something else. Literally putting a fucking car on a boat to shoot missiles. Lmao.
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.
there also was this piece that stated that the US Navy had a " dreadnought" moment with the resent deployment of the Zirkon Missile...
its MoA.. so
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/12/us-navy-acknowledges-russian-weapon-superiority.html#more
someone doesnt engage the parking brake and 100 million dollars roll off the deck
