Re: Super killing machine to be tested in Singapore

• From: alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan)
• Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 08:17 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)

In article <43e01714$0$15123$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
trochilus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Terry Russell) wrote:

> actually 600  per minute 10 per second
> the reason for this is that at 400 metres against a person running
> it takes about  200 rounds or 20 seconds to have a high probability of a hit
> hence the use of gatling weapons capable of 6000 per minute
> 100 per second which still means a couple of seconds
> It isn't so much that they couldn't fire faster, but that a few seconds off
> target consumes a lot of ammunition, and you only need one or two to be on 
> target.
> 
> and then you have 198 or 9 that went somewhere other than the intended 
> target,
> even assuming they were pointed more or less at the correct point.
> 
> a device that can plaster 50 rounds into a couple of square metres within
> a couple of milliseconds actually means fewer misses, assuming they are
> actually pointed at the right target. Hence, the 'storm'.
> 
> It has it's niches and in those it may prove very effective but isn't
> generally much more effective than current mechanical weapons.

Yes! Very impressive, but what defence is it again this?

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=48006

Writing in 'The Times' of India on January 14, Charles Assisi reported that 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 p.m. 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.?

Assisi continues: 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.

    But the Topol isn?t attracting attention for its speed alone. It has got 
more to do with the sheer viciousness it demonstrates. A conventional 
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), once deployed, takes off on the back 
of a booster. 

After attaining a certain altitude, it follows a set flight path or trajectory. 
When it reaches the intended target, it lets loose a set of warheads that home 
in on the target with devastating accuracy. Given these dynamics, military 
establishments build defense systems that can intercept an ICBM before it 
strikes. Very often, the defense works.

With the Topol, these dynamics simply don?t come into play. To start with, the 
damn thing can be maneuvered mid-flight. This makes it practically impossible 
for any radar system in the world to figure out what trajectory it will follow. 
The other thing is the kind of evasion technology built into the missile. That 
makes it invulnerable to any kind of radiation and electromagnetic and physical 
interference.

Then there is the question of ground-based nuclear warheads traditionally 
deployed to stop ICBMs in their path. Until now, any ICBM can be taken down by 
detonating a nuclear warhead from as far as 10 kilometers. The Topol doesn?t 
blink an eyelid until the time a nuclear warhead gets as close as 500 meters. 
But given the Topol?s remarkable speed and maneuverability, getting a warhead 
that close is practically impossible.

That leaves defense establishments with only two options. Target the missile at 
its most vulnerable points -- either when it is on the ground or when it is just 
being deployed (also known as the boost phase). Apparently, the Russians have 
gotten around that problem too. Unlike virtually every ICBM that exists on some 
military base or the other, the Topol doesn?t have to be on a static base. All 
it needs is the back of a truck. And trucks can be driven anywhere, anytime. 
That makes it practically impossible for any country to monitor how many of 
these missiles have been deployed and where.

Writes Scott Ritter, a former intelligence officer and weapons inspector in the 
Soviet Union and Iraq in the Christian Science Monitor, ?The Bush 
administration?s dream of a viable NMD has been rendered fantasy by the Russian 
test of the SS-27 Topol-M ... to counter the SS-27 threat, the US will need to 
start from scratch.?

But when you?re done marveling at the technology, sit back for a moment and 
consider this.

    * You thought the cold war was over ... you thought wrong!

Cold War II has just begun ... and the world just became a more dangerous place.

The Topol SS 27 is the fastest missile ever

NOTE: The United States move to deny Venezuela access to hi-tech military 
equipment is forcing the Caracas government to look elsewhere for defense 
ordnance and technology.  In recent moves, a Pentagon veto on the sale of 
non-combative transport planes from Spain to Venezuela has resulted in Venezuela 
seriously entertaining proposals to purchase Russian MIG fighters as well 
run-of-the-mill AK-47 guns.  Chinese arms salesmen are already wooing Caracas 
with deals to provide arms and equipment otherwise denied to Venezuela by myopic 
mandarins Washington D.C. who see Osama bin Laden lookalikes under the beds in 
every Beltway brothel.

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=48006


Alan

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