Trump: US will beat China and Russia with 'super duper missile'

Let's not pretend that President Trump is boring and not enormously entertaining. His simple verbiage and delivery of his lines usually leaves no chance for misinterpretation, and you have to admit, he can often be compared to a standup comedian. 

But sometimes you have to guess what Trump means because he often speaks in New York shorthand, which being a native New Yorker, I generally understand.

While unveiling the flag for his new Space Force in the Oval Office in the White House, President Trump has said the United States will beat out military rivals including Russia and China with “'super duper missile.”

A super duper missile.

“We have no choice, we have to do it with the adversaries we have out there. We have, I call it the super duper missile and I heard the other night [it’s] 17 times faster than what they have right now,” Trump said on Friday.

“That’s right,” said Trump’s defense secretary, Mark Esper, standing to his right.

“You take the fastest missile we have right now,” Trump said. “You heard Russia has five times and China’s working on five or six times, we have one 17 times and it’s just got the go-ahead.”

What? We have 17 times what?

The DOD said in March it had successfully tested an unarmed hypersonic missile, a weapon that could potentially overwhelm other missile defense systems, so Trump must be talking about our missile being able to go 17 times faster than sound. That's often referred to as "super duper." 

But can it really go that fast?

According to the Pentagon, the test was successfully performed in Hawaii. The missile flew at hypersonic speeds [which is over five times the speed of sound] to a designated impact point.

Super Duper Missile

Hypersonic weapons can take missile and nuclear warfare to a new and more threatening level. They can go much faster [at super duper speeds] than current ballistic and cruise missiles, fly at different altitudes and have the maneuverability that makes them difficult to track and target with current missile defense systems.

Both Russia and China are developing similar military capabilities as they seek to field the technology and erode America’s military dominance.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed Russian Avangard missiles [named after a powerful Russian deodorant] can “travel at up to 20 times the speed of sound, like a ‘meteorite’ or a ‘fireball,’” according Bloomberg.

“Not a single country possesses hypersonic weapons, let alone continental-range hypersonic weapons,” Putin reportedly told the Russian military in December. “They’re trying to catch up with us," adding, "our missiles are super."

Perhaps, Vladimir, but ours are super duper. Put that in your pooper scooper.

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Russia's intercontinental hypersonic weapon

Faster than a speeding bullet, Russia's new hypersonic intercontinental range missile is now part of their weapons inventory according to their defense minister Sergei Shoigu. The missile is now usable as of Friday and the United States doesn't have one that matches its performance . . . yet.

Vladimir Putin unveiled the Avangard along with other prospective weapons systems in his state-of-the-nation address in March 2018. He said that its ability to make sharp maneuvers on its way to a target will render missile defense useless.

The Russian dictator described the Avangard as a technological breakthrough and compared it to the 1957 Soviet launch of the first satellite known as Sputnik.

Earlier this week, Putin emphasized that Russia is the only country armed with hypersonic weapons. He noted that for the first time in history Russia is now leading the world in developing an entire new class of weapons, unlike in the past when it was catching up with the United States.

The military said that the Avangard is capable of flying 27 times faster than the speed of sound. That is flat out fast at 20,716 mph!

Russian media reports say that the Avangard will first be mounted on Soviet-built RS-18B intercontinental ballistic missiles, code-named SS-19 by NATO. It is expected to be fitted to the prospective Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile after it becomes operational.

In November, the Defense Ministry said that it demonstrated the Avangard to U.S. inspectors as part of the New Start nuclear arms treaty and to show transparency with the U.S., which now is considering new strategies of defense to counter hypersonic weapons developed by Russia and China.

We are at a point in our history where it is crucial to continue defense funding as Trump has been doing. It would be foolish to follow the path that most on the left would have us follow as it would leave us vulnerable to those nations and make us a third-rate power.

U.S. officials have discussed putting a layer of sensors in space to more quickly detect enemy missiles, particularly the hypersonic weapons. The administration also plans to study the idea of basing interceptors in space, so the U.S. can strike incoming enemy missiles during the first minutes of flight when the booster engines are still burning.

So President Trump's creation of a Space Force isn't so crazy as the left would like you to believe.

The Pentagon also has been working on the development of hypersonic weapons in recent years, and Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in August that he believes “it’s probably a matter of a couple of years” before the U.S. has one. He has called it a priority as the military works to develop new long-range fire capabilities.

And while it should be obvious, the reelection of Trump is crucial to the continuation of this weaponry development because the far-left is naive to the threat.








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