North Korea Claims It Successfully Tested A New ‘Hypersonic Gliding Warhead’
The image shows a conical hypersonic vehicle perched atop a ballistic missile being launched.
The image shows a conical hypersonic vehicle perched atop a ballistic missile being launched.
The Navy often puts out a press release right after Trident tests, but that was not the case in this instance.
The missile was seen rising into the evening sky off the Florida coast and likely reentered the atmosphere over the South Atlantic.
The 480-gallon drop tank goes end over end into the sea right after the Super Hornet leaves the deck.
It’s one of the F-35’s most versatile and critical weapons, and it’s about to get a whole lot more capable.
It is also the first time a private contractor has put a human in orbit.
America’s carriers are going from having a sailor film deck operations through a window to recording the entire deck with no cameraman at all.
Iran has invested heavily in its subterranean ballistic missile infrastructure and is able to build, service, and fire them from underground. Now we are getting a look at the automated blast doors that isolate each section of the missile caverns from destruction should an aerial attack or an accident occur.
An earlier failed launch could have left the station operating in a risky unmanned mode.
With no crew, no one would be able to fix critical systems if they broke and important work related to the station would come grinding to a halt.