MiG-105 "Spiral": the Soviet miniature shuttle

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau made tests in 1980's with very small size space-shuttle, what became famous, when some Australian P-3 "Orion" took the picture of this thing, what was mentioned as the "Soviet space fighter". The Soviet authorities claimed that the Soviet Union would not develop space shuttles, but the pictures, what are taken from the "Plesetsk-cosmodrome" have been shown something else. Here I must mention, that there were two shuttle programs in the Soviet Union. Another one was "Buran" the large spacecraft, what had the size like American space shuttle.


That program shut down after a couple of tests and the Western intelligence believed, the purpose of that miniature space shuttle were military, and it would be developed for destroying other spacecraft. There were also some other analyzes, what was frighten the Western world. Those analyzes were that the MiG-105 was the prototype of the next generation cruise missile, what could be more terrible than HCM (Hypersonic Cruise Missile)could ever be.


Because of the photos, what was taken by P-3 Orion, and where the small size lifting body would be rescued from the sea to the Soviet naval vessel made the engineers believed, that this missile, could be used the EKRANOPLAN or WIG (Win In-Ground) what is normally called the "ground effect airplane". This technology would allow, that the cruise missile would make the "parabolic jump", and then land to the altitude of three meters for the surface of the ocean. In some scenarios, this weapon could be equipped with three jet motors, what could be at the bottom of this thing.


Those jet engines would make the landing to the ground effect flight easily, and the missile would continue with ramjets or rocket engines, and the most effective those missiles would be against warships like aircraft carriers. This could make the missile more deadly, than ever. The Russian new HCS would use the same technology, what is used in the MiG-105.




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Next generation of military submarines is entering the service

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The next generation of missile submarines have extremely high precision strike capacity, and those submarines can be equipped with hypersonic cruise missiles. Here I'm writing about both sides the United States Navy's and the Russian Navy's new equipment, what is developing on both sides of the new cold war. And also China would be interested in those systems, what have many capabilities to destroy enemy's sea or land targets with surgical strikes. Those weapons are fully automatized, and they can operate without the crew years at the sea, without coming to the base, and they are the most dangerous military systems, what have ever developed.


In these scenarios, the ballistic missiles like Trident D-5 or SS-N-20 "Seahawk" would be equipped with the aerodynamic warheads or scramjet engined cruise missiles, what can fly straight to target with speed over Mach 6. Those missiles are very hard to intercept, and the warning time would be extremely short. They can be equipped with STEALTH-technology or active DEW (Directed Energy Weapon) system, what mission is to destroy or disturb the anti-aircraft missiles, what are shooting against those incoming hypersonic cruise missiles.


That very high-speed equipment would destroy the target by using kinetic energy, and its survivability for attack can be increased by installing the RATO-system, what gives electricity to the magnetrons, what can create very powerful microwave signals to those targets. That system could damage the mission-critical systems of the targetted vessel. In this case, the microwave transmitter's mission would destroy enemy electronics equipment and give extreme heat to the hull of the targeted vessel or supply dump.


This system would not close the existence of thermonuclear warhead, and the microwave systems mission would be helping the missile to survive the counter missiles, and the microwave would plow the enemy anti-aircraft missiles away from the route of attacking missile. Those new submarines would have many technical advantages, like the capacity to patrol without the crew. So those next-generation missile submarines can patrol in the deepest seas years without coming to the base. If the crew is necessary, those men can transfer to the submarine by the hull of the support vessel. And the submarine itself stays unseen.


The crew transfer can also be used for another submarine, and in this might be one purpose to build the "Uniform class" nuclear-propelled midget submarines. Drone submarines can patrol at sea, and be waiting for orders to begin the operation against enemies, but sometimes those vessels need service and that's why the service crew must sometimes visit in those submarines, what can be patrolling in the secret locations, and wait for orders to open fire with missiles, or start to hunt enemy submarines and surface battle units.

Sources:

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2018/06/01/russia-has-plans-for-its-future-nuclear-subs-and-it-involves-hypersonic-missiles/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DFN+DNR+6%2F1%2F18&utm_term=Editorial+-+Daily+News+Roundup

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About Russian hypersonic missile and strengths and weaknesses about hypersonic cruise missiles

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Russia has said, that it would have the new hypersonic missile, what can knock out any U.S Carrier from the sea. This concept is not actually very new, and the beginning of this weapon is in the early 90's when the Soviet Union collapsed. In that time engineers worked with the new type of weapon, what based on the ramjet-propellant hybrid missile, that could avoid U.S air defense. Hypersonic missiles have many strangenesses but also weaknesses, and one of those weaknesses is that those missiles cannot make many curves, what makes probably possible to calculate their flight route and the target, and the heating of the nose can also allow targeting the missile with infrared systems. This can help the target to predict the attack, and send the anti-aircraft missiles against those hypersonic weapons.


The weapon was meant for a shoot to ballistic trajectory by using conventional ICBM missile like SS-19 or it's the first stage, and then the missile would dive in the atmosphere. After or during the dive, the fuel would be injected to the ramjet engine, and then the cruise missile could start to fly to its target in the speed of Mach 6 or more, and that very high speed would make the defense against that missile very difficult, and those missiles would be very big threat for any target in enemy territory.


Those cruise missiles would seem the little bit like SS-N-21, but they must be more aerodynamic than SS-N-21. Those missiles would be devastating even without the warhead, and if they would attack against carrier fleet, would the level of kinetic energy be very high, if that kind of missile hits the ship. But of course, that kind of cruise missiles can carry the conventional or nuclear warhead. The problem of the warhead is that very high speed of the weapon would make the timing of detonator quite difficult, because if the warhead detonates in the different time, would the armored nuclear command bunkers survive the attack.  The modern computer technology makes those missiles more deadly than ever before.


Modern computers allow the missile to change it's course and speed all the time, and also image identification system allows them to attack sharply than ever before. Those systems bases that the photograph of the target is installed in the memory of the computer, and then the camera takes the picture, what is compiling with the picture that is saved in the memory of the computer. When those pictures are perfectly in one on the other, the weapon attack straight to the target. Hypersonic cruise missiles are very difficult for defenders because they are extremely high-speed targets, what can fly in low level.


There is, of course, one weakness about those weapons. That is that their nose would be heated in very high temperature and that infrared signature can be used to aim anti-aircraft weapons to those targets. The most effective weapons, what can be used against those hypersonic cruise missiles could be DEW:s (Directed Energy Weapons) like lasers, what can aim to target by using infrared cameras. And if there would be creating the hole in the nose of that missile, would that cause the situation, that the hypersonic weapon would be destroyed before it hits the target. But that needs the direct hit to the missile. The speed of hypersonic cruise missile causes, that if any projectile hits it, by flying straight to the nose of that weapon, that would destroy the hypersonic missile by very high-level impact power. And those high-speed missiles cannot turn very tight curves, what could be possible to calculate the point, where that missile would fly, what might make defense possible.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon

https://www.unilad.co.uk/technology/russia-confirms-its-6000mph-hypersonic-missile-is-ready-for-war/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-tests-hypersonic-missile-kinzhal-vladimir-putin-nuclear-weapons-donald-trump-a8250796.html


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Lockheed XQM-60 "Kingfisher" the early version of hypersonic cruise missiles

Lockheed XQM-60 "Kingfisher"
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I found an article at Internet or Wikipedia, where was told a story of XQM-60 "Kingfisher" target drone, what had the capacity to speed of mach 4,3. This ramjet- propelled drone was in operational in 1951, and this thing was meant that the United States Air Force had the capacity to make hypersonic cruise missiles in 1950's.


In this drone had the same capacity to strike targets than some Tomahawk cruise missile. This kind of drones was officially made for anti-ballistic missile simulations, but there are so many details in this drones history, that I think the real purpose of that project was creating the very fast missile, what had the capacity to destroy targets by using kinetic energy. That means that "Kingfisher" might use as the model to create those extreme powerful missiles, what have the capacity to destroy specific targets in the enemy ground.


When we are looking at the United States reactions for China and Russian attempt to create those weapons, we must consider that the USA doesn't say anything about this kind of things. But when we are thinking about the procedures of the military forces way to give information, we must consider that they would give only the information, what is necessary to give. This means that the first hypersonic cruise missiles might fly in 1960's in the nose of some Nike-Hercules rocket. But this is only the thoughts about this drone.


We must remember that also "Tomahawk"-cruise missile started its career as the BQM-109 target drone, and when this drone was equipped with the nuclear warhead, it became BGM-109 "Tomahawk", what is the primary long-range weapon in the United States Navy. And maybe the name "Kingfisher" was meant to warn the enemies of United States, that this drone can drive to impact the enemy warships and bunkers. And the kinetic energy would destroy that target without warning if the nose of the missile would use Stealth technology for avoiding the radar of the targeted warship. Also, active ECM-system might be used to make sure that the missile would hit the target.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AQM-60_Kingfisher

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Why is the defense against hypersonic cruise missile so difficult?

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Hypersonic missile or cruise missile (HCM) is the new type of weapon, what uses technology that allows the weapon glide to the ground with the extremely high speed with gentle incoming trajectory. This would give the very big challenge for the defense, what must react this threat only in a couple of seconds. The launching of those extremely fast weapons may be done by submarines, surface warships or by aircraft. This weapon is the new type of solution for first strike missions.


Hypersonic cruise missiles are developed in many nations. The limitations of this kind of weapon are very difficult because they don't need warheads. And the kinetic energy what is boosted with microwaves is the devastating combination for aircraft carriers. The microwave-transmitter can installed to the nose of those missiles, and it can be got the necessary electric power from windmill turbogenerators.


The extremely high speed would give very powerful microwaves. The microwaves would be devastating for the target, and if they are not enough, would the kinetic energy terminate the structure, when the missile hits the target with speed above Mach 8. And those hypersonic cruise missiles can accelerate up to speed Mach 12.  The kinetic energy would be very devastating at that speed. But the problem is, that those missiles can mask as the new superfast airplane-testbeds.


One of the greatest problems with hypersonic missiles is that they use so-called low observable technology. That means that the head of that missile is invincible for radars because the shape of the hypersonic body would be similar with B-2 Stealth-bomber. And the gentle shape what allows to avoid the radar-waves would also allow avoiding the friction of the atmosphere.


The final problem with those weapons is that some of them are equipped with similar ECM-systems, what makes the detecting and targeting the air defense missiles to this hypersonic target extremely difficult. Also, some of those missiles are equipped with microwave generators, what mission will be heat the target and make their armor softer, what gives the missile greater penetration. Another mission of those microwave systems is also terminate the electric systems of the target.


As I have written earlier, those hypersonic cruise missiles can destroy even the aircraft carriers by using kinetic energy. The nuclear warhead makes those weapons even more devastating. The gentle trajectory would allow striking against the doors of underground leading facilities. The weapon can strike against the door of those facilities. And it can detonate just outside the cave, what protects the command center. The only problem is that nuclear warhead must detonate in microseconds.

Sources:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3091715/Air-Force-bosses-reveal-want-hypersonic-missiles-five-years-technology-planes-travel-New-York-London-HOUR.html

http://thehill.com/sponsored/content/245420-no-longer-science-fiction-facing-global-threats-with-hypersonic-missiles

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/could-uss-new-hypersonic-missile-spark-world-war-3-1555182

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WU-14

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Falcon_Project

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