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Kimmo Huosionmaa
Russia has said, that it would have the new hypersonic missile, what can knock out any U.S Carrier from the sea. This concept is not actually very new, and the beginning of this weapon is in the early 90's when the Soviet Union collapsed. In that time engineers worked with the new type of weapon, what based on the ramjet-propellant hybrid missile, that could avoid U.S air defense. Hypersonic missiles have many strangenesses but also weaknesses, and one of those weaknesses is that those missiles cannot make many curves, what makes probably possible to calculate their flight route and the target, and the heating of the nose can also allow targeting the missile with infrared systems. This can help the target to predict the attack, and send the anti-aircraft missiles against those hypersonic weapons.
The weapon was meant for a shoot to ballistic trajectory by using conventional ICBM missile like SS-19 or it's the first stage, and then the missile would dive in the atmosphere. After or during the dive, the fuel would be injected to the ramjet engine, and then the cruise missile could start to fly to its target in the speed of Mach 6 or more, and that very high speed would make the defense against that missile very difficult, and those missiles would be very big threat for any target in enemy territory.
Those cruise missiles would seem the little bit like SS-N-21, but they must be more aerodynamic than SS-N-21. Those missiles would be devastating even without the warhead, and if they would attack against carrier fleet, would the level of kinetic energy be very high, if that kind of missile hits the ship. But of course, that kind of cruise missiles can carry the conventional or nuclear warhead. The problem of the warhead is that very high speed of the weapon would make the timing of detonator quite difficult, because if the warhead detonates in the different time, would the armored nuclear command bunkers survive the attack. The modern computer technology makes those missiles more deadly than ever before.
Modern computers allow the missile to change it's course and speed all the time, and also image identification system allows them to attack sharply than ever before. Those systems bases that the photograph of the target is installed in the memory of the computer, and then the camera takes the picture, what is compiling with the picture that is saved in the memory of the computer. When those pictures are perfectly in one on the other, the weapon attack straight to the target. Hypersonic cruise missiles are very difficult for defenders because they are extremely high-speed targets, what can fly in low level.
There is, of course, one weakness about those weapons. That is that their nose would be heated in very high temperature and that infrared signature can be used to aim anti-aircraft weapons to those targets. The most effective weapons, what can be used against those hypersonic cruise missiles could be DEW:s (Directed Energy Weapons) like lasers, what can aim to target by using infrared cameras. And if there would be creating the hole in the nose of that missile, would that cause the situation, that the hypersonic weapon would be destroyed before it hits the target. But that needs the direct hit to the missile. The speed of hypersonic cruise missile causes, that if any projectile hits it, by flying straight to the nose of that weapon, that would destroy the hypersonic missile by very high-level impact power. And those high-speed missiles cannot turn very tight curves, what could be possible to calculate the point, where that missile would fly, what might make defense possible.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon
https://www.unilad.co.uk/technology/russia-confirms-its-6000mph-hypersonic-missile-is-ready-for-war/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-tests-hypersonic-missile-kinzhal-vladimir-putin-nuclear-weapons-donald-trump-a8250796.html
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https://www.neweurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/01_Zicron.jpg
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