SA is about to be in the middle of a Russian propaganda coup around an 'unstoppable' weapon

[Anelist]

By virtue of being one of the BRICS nations, unfortunately SA committed themselves to marriage with China & Russia way before the war on Ukraine

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Cool stuff. Hopefully spectators will be able to see when the launch this missile.

So that they're in range if it goes wrong?

 

[Cosmik Debris]

noice! can we get a video of this bad boy flying over our coast?

At hypersonic speed?

 

[The_Librarian]

At hypersonic speed?

Who says it'll be hypersonic?

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Lol. They are going to fire a missile off their own boat towards open ocean.

Worst case scenario is they blow themselves up.

Or it goes in the wrong direction and lands on your house...

 

[The_Librarian]

Or it goes in the wrong direction and lands on goes through your house...

FTFY

 

[LCBXX]

I hope our local media and independent journos covers the fsck out of this.

Not like those curated photos we got when the USS Theodore Roosevelt anchored off Cape Town.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Ideally they will tow one of our navy wrecks out and let it get evaporated.

They would have to tow the entire SA Navy out there.

 

[ShaunSA]

Was that his response when you offered lobola for Dudu?

 

[Pegging]

Who says it'll be hypersonic?

The Russians. This is apparently what they are testing. It’s what the thread is about,

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Probably going to be another "simulated" launch, and the SA Navy is going to "simulate" its existence.

My question is why off the KZN coast when the missile test range with all the required test and recording equipment is situated on the Southern Cape coast at Overberg near Bredasdorp? NATO navies test their missiles there because of that.

Could this be a big PR exercise the Russians don't want recorded because they know the missile is not all it's hyped up to be?

 

[wingnut771]

Is the sonic boom the same at mach 1 vs mach 6?

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Who says it'll be hypersonic?

Can hypersonic missiles travel at slow speed?

 

[ShaunSA]

Is the sonic boom the same at mach 1 vs mach 6?

Nfi. But I've had farts travel at the speed of light

Especially in the shower!

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Is the sonic boom the same at mach 1 vs mach 6?

Yes. It happens at Mach 1. The reason it won't be within sight of land.

 

[Wut]

Is the sonic boom the same at mach 1 vs mach 6?

There will always be only one as it breaks the sound barrier. No subsequent sonic booms after that.

 

[Pegging]

My question is why off the KZN coast when the missile test range with all the required test and recording equipment is situated on the Southern Cape coast at Overberg near Bredasdorp? NATO navies test their missiles there because of that.

Could this be a big PR exercise the Russians don't want recorded because they know the missile is not all it's hyped up to be?

We tested our cactus and Hilda missiles at the Reccie camp at St Lucia. Fired them at the ocean.

 

[The_Librarian]

required test and recording equipment

Will the equipment be in a working condition? And I have to assume that they have made provision for unexpected loadsheddings?

Just imagine the missile doing a flyby and Eskom decides to **** the bed.

 

[Fulcrum29]

I am more curious what they will be targeting, it is not like we have any uninhabited or derelict bodies. All the islands we have are protected. Launching a Zircon into the abyss will be… uhm, a waste.

Who knows, maybe the Chinese or Russians will be towing something along...

This remains a test exercise, pending on how well it is executed, so we won’t be in the middle anywhere other than them being in our waters under a bilateral agreement.

 

[Magandroid]

I am more curious what they will be targeting, it is not like we have any uninhabited or derelict bodies. All the islands we have are protected. Launching a Zircon into the abyss will be… uhm, a waste.

Who knows, maybe the Chinese or Russians will be towing something along...

This remains a test exercise, pending on how well it is executed, so we won’t be in the middle anywhere other than them being in our waters under a bilateral agreement.

Maybe the Chinese will bring along a balloon purchased off Wish.com. Apparently it took the americans 2 x $400K missiles to shoot down one floating balloon.