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This is, um, Cuban Missile Crisis, Part 2, right? Um, and, uh, you know, that was, uh, that was the big thing, as I said, when I was a young kid. I was in second grade when that happened, and, um, everybody was saying, well, there’s no, not gonna be any advanced warning, you know? Cuba is so close to Florida, they get here in just a couple of minutes. Well, now, the situation with these hypersonic missiles is that’s pretty much everywhere that they can do that. And it’s not just that they’re fast. They can’t be seen by the radar, because, again, it creates, like, a plasma envelope in the front as it’s going that fast, going 10 to 11 times the speed of sound.

Um, as it’s going that fast, it creates kind of a plasma in front of it, and that absorbs a radar. So your radar doesn’t even see it coming. It’s not only just that it’s that fast, but, uh, you can’t see it either. It’s a stealth missile. So how does the U.S. propose to counter this? This is a story that shows the utter bankruptcy, financially and strategically, and the bankruptcy of being able to implement or do anything of the U.S. defense industry, the Pentagon. They are talking about using this stealth destroyer. It’s self, an incredibly expensive ship.

Incredibly expensive. Supposed to be difficult for a radar to find it. It looks really strange. It’s covered in all kinds of things to absorb radar and stuff like that. It’s got flat surfaces, like you see with the stealth jets and things like that. But the problem is, is I guess with all that stuff, it’s not really seaworthy for deep water operations. And so they use it as literal. And that is L I T T O R M A L, meaning that it’s for shallow water nearby land. And so this thing was set up to be some kind of a land support for, uh, Marines or for, uh, other troops, you know, operating close to land.

And they set it up with the ship itself costs billions of dollars. And they set it up with a gun system that they decided was just too expensive to operate. Each one of the rounds from the gun system costs between 800,000 and a million dollars each round. And so this ship, it’s kind of like the F 35. Now the F 35 is a $2 trillion debacle of bureaucratic waste and ineptitude. Uh, this is a cheaper. It’s just a few billion dollars, but it’s another example of how they can’t execute. They just waste money. And now they’re pushing us into war.

That’s going to waste lives at an unprecedented amount because they’re not ready to do anything with this. They’re now looking at this thing and saying, well, we could use this as a base for hypersonic our own hypersonic missiles. The problem is that we don’t have any hypersonic missiles. They’ve been doing things like the F 35, which also had a problem with its gun, but it’s also got problems with power and reliability and heat and all the rest. It’s got problems with everything. And this ship is probably the same thing as well. And so we don’t have hypersonic missiles.

China and Russia do, but we’re fixing to do something about it, right? We’re fixing to do it. Maybe we could use that total failure of a ship to launch the hypersonic missiles that we don’t have general go back and fix your makeup. Okay. What a joke these people are. So again, a gun system that was never activated because it’s too expensive to use. And so now they’re going to say, well, let’s retrofit it so that we can put the hypersonic missiles that we don’t have on it. They’ll probably find that after they retrofitted it and the, this other group that’s out there creating hypersonic missiles will probably find that the missiles don’t fit into whatever they’ve got to launch it.

It was certainly a costly blunder set of defense analysts, but the Navy could take victory from the jaws of defeat here and get some utility out of these ships by making them into a hypersonic platform. They’ve been trying to develop hypersonic missiles for the last two decades and we don’t have any Russia and China do. And as a matter of fact, as they’re looking at this program and fixing to do something about that, they’re saying, well, we’re going to have hypersonic missiles that travel somewhere between five and Mach five and Mach seven, five to seven times the speed of sound.

Their goals are not even commiserate with what the Russians are already doing. And they’re talking about doing this year’s out. The Russians, um, this, um, arrest, Nick, uh, whatever it is, a hazelnut tree is what it stands for in Russia. Uh, this, their hypersonic missile goes at Mach 10 and in the final stage, it goes up to Mach 11. They’re talking about, well, yeah, maybe we could do something at five to seven. Five is the, uh, the lower threshold of hypersonic. They don’t even have goals of catching up. Last year, the Washington Post reported that among the documents leaked by former Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Tekzira was a defense department briefing that confirmed that China had recently tested an intermediate range hypersonic weapon called the DF-27.

While the Pentagon had previously acknowledged the weapon’s development, it had not recognized the fact that it’s been tested. And of course we had a very public test of Russia’s hypersonic. So again, what is it? Um, they’re going to have, they got a goal of getting something that’s going to be half as fast as the Russian missile, which I guess, you know, our, our defense department is kind of half-assed, right? About half as fast as the Russian. Uh, but, uh, let’s just hope that, uh, world war three waits for the Pentagon to get its ducks in a row and, uh, develop some kind of a hypersonic missile that goes half as fast as the Russians.

In choosing the zoom wall, that’s the, the program that created these, uh, three destroyers. And there’s only three of them. Uh, they call them the zoom wall. The Navy is attempting to add to the usefulness of its seven and a half billion dollar worship. Isn’t that amazing? Seven and a half billion dollars for each ship. Considered by critics to be an expensive mistake, despite serving as a test platform for multiple innovations. Well, you know, the $2 trillion F-35 was a big mistake, but they’re going to continue to pour money into it. They’re going to do the same thing with the zoom wall.

Zoom wall was envisioned as providing land attack capability, an advanced gun system with rocket assisted projectiles to open the way for Marines to charge ashore, canceled because each one of the projectiles cost between 800,000 and a million. The three zoom wall class destroyers remain the Navy’s most advanced surface warships. Innovations include, listen to this, electric propulsion. Seven and a half billion dollars to create a battery operated destroyer with a gun that has, is too expensive to operate. Where are they going to get recharged? That’s what I want. What is a matter with the Pentagon? And of course they’ve been talking about this for the longest time.

We’ve got to look at climate change. Climate change said the Pentagon is our greatest threat. No hypersonic missiles and your aggressive provocation of wars is our greatest threat. And so they want to stop climate change by having an electric destroyer. But they’re not worried about World War Three. What fools these people are. It’s unbelievable. So the Navy wants to begin testing the hypersonic missiles in 2027 or 2028. Let me just get Russian away another four or five years as we continue to fire attack comes into their country before they start using their hypersonic. It won’t be just fine, assuming that somebody can make the hypersonic missile.

I guess CIA is so incompetent, they can’t steal the plans. You know, I mean, it used to be that China would steal or buy the plans, you know, like a secret Asian man. Johnny Wong bought a lot of military plans from the Clintons. We don’t have anybody that can buy stuff from and China. I mean, we buy everything from them, but we can’t buy their defense plans. Just the stuff at Walmart. The US weapon system will come at a steep price. It would cost nearly $18 billion to buy 300 of these hypersonic missiles that they haven’t built yet.

We’re talking about something that’s four or five years out. That’s it’s probably going to cost several times that that’s historical, right? And hysterical as well. $18 billion to buy 300 of the weapons and maintain them for over 20 years. Well, let’s hope that they do maintain them for over 20 years and don’t shoot them. But think about this. They shut the zoom wall down because they had a gun that was going to cost a million dollars around. Now they’re going to have 300 of these at $18 billion. So we’re talking about $60 million around. This has been a God math.

We can’t afford to shoot that. It costs a million dollars each time we fire off one of those guns. So let’s retrofit it. So it’ll cost 60 million every time we fire off one of those missiles. This particular missile costs more than a dozen tanks. And all it gets you is a precise non nuclear explosion someplace far, far away. Is it really worth it to pay that kind of money? He said, Lauren Thompson, a long time military analyst in Washington, DC. He must be an analyst and not a lobbyist because if he’s a lobbyist, the answer would be, of course it is.

Of course it is. The answer is, he said, most of the time the missile costs much more than any target that you can destroy with it. And I’m reminded of Ronald Reagan firing cruise missiles at Qaddafi’s tents in Libya. Tens of millions of dollars to destroy a tent and to kill some of his family members. Navy Rear Admiral Ray Spicer though says conventional missiles that cost less aren’t much of a bargain. If they’re unable to reach their targets… …faring of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming, some be out of the office.

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