The fact that DPRK got hypersonic weapons before US will never stop being hilarious
The fact that DPRK got hypersonic weapons before US will never stop being hilarious
North Korea successfully test-fired a new hypersonic missile, state news agency KCNA said on Wednesday, the latest step in a plan its leader Kim Jong Un described as aimed at using solid fuel to power missiles of all ranges.
The latest cope is "hypersonic weapons aren't what they're hyped up to be".
lol Patriot systems seem to disagree
It seems that a year ago they managed to shoot down one kinzhal missile. From my understanding, they shot it down in its "final approach"/maneuver to target stage, which happens at subsonic speed.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/05/6/7400941/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ukraine-ap-kyiv-netherlands-moscow-b2333737.html
The actual hypersonic missiles can maneuver at hypersonic speeds, and Russia hasn't used those in Ukraine yet.
how incompetent do you have to be to have unlimited resources and easy access to brightests minds in the planet and still got beat by a tiny, blocked and previously wrecked country
Incredible racism against people of Chinese descent, a STEM research culture that only rewards profitability, and an education system that only helps rich failchildren.
Because the yanks and the koreans are doing two different things. The koreans are developing new missiles to defend their nation. The yanks are developing ways to get more yachts for defence contractor CEO's, preferably also a way to kill brown people with rusty AK's.
Both are good at what they're doing.
Americans: "We're going to engineer hypersonic air travel in the 1970s."
Also Americans: "We lost the arms race to the Hermit Kingdom in 2024."
dprk stay winning 🇰🇵
Not only does the DPRK have hypersonic weapons, they have is some metrics the best hypersonic missile on earth: https://nr.reddit.com/r/EuropeanSocialists/comments/1bhpcbh/main_feature_of_the_new_cold_war/