Also if I remember my relativity correctly, it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate something with nonzero mass to the speed of light ...
Well if they did it is such an obvious error that only a nincompoop would repeat it. Did they also brag about their perpetual motion machine and everlasting gobstoppers?
Just to attain the speed of light - never mind 5 times that - in a reasonable time scale for a battlefield or even intercontinental ballistic missile would subject it to acceleration forces which would obliterate the missile. It would require acceleration of thousands of 'gravities', similar to dropping the missile on the surface of a neutron star.
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*5 times the speed of light
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Not much point me betting against you tbf.
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Are you sure they don't mean 5 times the speed of sound?
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Is it as good as the Russian one that can be shot down by early 90's Patriot technology?
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(Something traveling at the speed of light can circumnavigate the Earth ~6 times in one second)
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Forking hell!
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Also if I remember my relativity correctly, it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate something with nonzero mass to the speed of light ...
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They definitely said 5x the speed of light.
They claim it can evade all known missile defence systems. That was less surprising if the first bit was true.
I think something has been lost in translation.
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Does that mean their missile can go back in time?
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Not much point me betting against you tbf.
heh, because it may be true now but by tomorrow today will be different
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Well if they did it is such an obvious error that only a nincompoop would repeat it. Did they also brag about their perpetual motion machine and everlasting gobstoppers?
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far out
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Heh @ everlasting gobstoppers
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yeah right
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I think Russia has shown quite well where relying on propaganda wonder weapons will get you
does it at least have a cool name? kinda feel the middle east has been letting the side down since Saddam's "Lion of Babylon" tanks
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They called it "Fattah"
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Different news sources now saying it travels at 15 x speed of sound.
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5 times speed of light. 15 times speed of sound.
What's a factor of ~300,000 between friends?
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Even 15 times the speed of sound sounds a bit far fetched.
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Unless it can travel in an unpredictable way and not just a ballistic trajectory then it will be shot down by advanced air defence.
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If they pray hard enough anything can happen, inshallah.
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I was reading maecus chown this morning. Einstein proved it was impossible to go faster than the speed of light when he was 14.
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PAC-3 is most definitely not "early '90s technology"...
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Well they had it in Desert Storm so the original platform is from then.
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heh
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Just to attain the speed of light - never mind 5 times that - in a reasonable time scale for a battlefield or even intercontinental ballistic missile would subject it to acceleration forces which would obliterate the missile. It would require acceleration of thousands of 'gravities', similar to dropping the missile on the surface of a neutron star.
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Israel must be shitting/pissing their pants.
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From laughing, presumably?
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Affirmative, PP.
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PAC 3 is early '90s technology. It first entered service in 1995, having been written in the early 90s!
It is quite unbelievable how long PATRIOT will endure. It was designed in 1969 and is still expected to on the battlefield in 2040.
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Yep Patriot is what you might call the legacy kit. THAAD is the new deal.
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