Re: There is a news channel in the U.S.....



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vello wrote:
vkarlamov@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Dmitry wrote:


Any chance for the link for Topol 27?


Sure. There are 23,000 entries in my Google search for "Topol SS-27".
Here is the very first one:

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4057

The Topol SS 27 is the fastest missile ever

Charles Assisi - The Times of India January 14, 2006

On November 2, a rather staid little story appeared on a ticker powered
by Itar-Tass, a Russian News Agency. The tone was decidedly
Russian-matter-of-fact and shorn of all hyperbole. It reported the
test launch of a ballistic missile called the Topol RS 12 at 8:10 pm
Moscow time. After taking off from the Kapustny Yar test range in the
Astrakhan region, it hit the intended target at Balkhash in Kazakhstan
at 8:34-24 minutes later.

"The target was precisely hit," said the report, quoting a
top-ranking official from the Russian armed forces.

In conclusion, Itar-Tass added some jargon that sounded like regulation
copy to most people tracking defense.

"The advanced Topol missile...has three cruise engines and can
develop hypersonic speed. The high thrust-to-weight ratio allows the
warhead to maneuver on the trajectory and pass through a dense air
defense system."

At that time, not many defense analysts thought much of the report.
After all, Kapustny Yar, located on the banks of the Volga River, 75
miles east of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), had gone to the dogs and
was infrequently used. Whenever the base was lucky to see some action,
all it witnessed was small payloads.

But what the mainstream media missed was analyzed in great detail on
Internet discussion boards. For starters, something about the time
mentioned in the report sounded astounding. For anything to travel from
Kapustny to Balkash in 24 minutes, it had to fly at a speed of three
miles a second. That's 180 miles a minute or 10,800 miles an hour. If
the reports were indeed true, the Topol RS 12 or the Topol SS 27, as it
is known in military circles around the world, had to be the fastest
thing man has ever seen. And if you will for a moment excuse the
breathlessness, it also represented the pinnacle of modern missile
technology. Until this test, the fastest thing known to man was the X43
A. A hypersonic, unmanned plane built by NASA. It flew at 10 times the
speed of sound-almost 7,200 miles per hour.

Unhappily author of that piece is "mainstream newsman", not a
journalist prepared to write about things technological. Topol (as any
ICBM) is far for being "fastest man-made thing". Comparison with x-43
is incorrect, coz x-43 is a plane with air-breathing engine, but ICBMs
are rockets, carrying both fuel and oxidizer onboard. More, they are
slow rockets - ICBMs can't compete in speed with space rocets (reason
will follow later here). Some benchmarks of speed: Space Shuttle - 28
000 km (17 500 miles) per hour, Apollo 10 (fastest manned flight) - 39
895 km (25 000 miles) per hour. Fastest man.made object ever, Helios 2
probe - 252 792 km (158 000 miles) per hour.

Also speed cannot be too high, otherwise the warhead will not return to
earth but will go into orbit.

Listen guys, I don't think you should give this kind of information to the
potential enemy...

Hm, a good lesson for Mr. Kharlamov next time to limit himself by
posting material comprehensible within teen electronics consumer range
of knowledge. E.g.- X-box availability, sale seasons, mail rebates, etc.
Otherwise children get overexcited and fry their brains reading in
"Chronicles of Narnia" about physics-imposed limits of jet dragons.

VM.
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