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Russia, China eclipse US in hypersonic missiles

Russia and China are outpacing the United States in the development of super-fast missile technology, Pentagon officials and key lawmakers are warning.

Russia says it successfully tested a so-called hypersonic missile this month, while China tested a similar system last year expected to enter service soon.

“Right now, we’re helpless,” Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in advocating for more investment in hypersonics, along with missile defense.

Hypersonics are generally defined as missiles that can fly more than five times the speed of sound.

Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, last week described a hypersonic as a missile that starts out “like a ballistic missile, but then it depresses the trajectory and then flies more like a cruise missile or an airplane. So it goes up into the low reaches of space, and then turns immediately back down and then levels out and flies at a very high level of speed.”

In November, China reportedly conducted two tests of a ballistic missile with a hypersonic glide vehicle that U.S. assessments expect to reach initial operating capability around 2020. The country had already conducted at least seven tests of experimental systems from 2014 to 2016.

Meanwhile, earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a flashy state of the nation address to tout a slate of new weapons, including a hypersonic missile he claimed was “invincible” against U.S. missile defenses. About a week later, Russia claimed it successfully tested a hypersonic.

At the time of Putin’s announcement, the Pentagon said it was “not surprised” by the report and assured the public that it is “fully prepared” to respond to such a threat.

But in congressional testimony last week, Hyten conceded U.S. missile defense cannot stop hypersonics. He said that the U.S. is instead relying on nuclear deterrence, or the threat of a retaliatory U.S. strike, as its defense against such missiles.

“We don’t have any defense that could deny the employment of such a weapon against us, so our response would be our deterrent force, which would be the triad and the nuclear capabilities that we have to respond to such a threat,” Hyten told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

To bolster missile defenses against hypersonics, Hyten advocated space-based sensors.

“I believe we need to pursue improved sensor capabilities to be able to track, characterize and attribute the threats, wherever they come from,” he said. “And, right now, we have a challenge with that, with our current on-orbit space architecture and the limited number of radars that we have around the world. In order to see those threats, I believe we need a new space sensor architecture.”

Asked if the U.S. is really falling behind Russia and China on hypersonics, Thomas Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said flatly: “Yes.”

“And the reason is the U.S. hasn’t been doing anything near the same pace both in terms of developing our own capabilities but also failing to develop sensors and shooters necessary to shoot down theirs,” he continued.

Terrestrial sensors are limited in their ability because of the curvature of the earth, Karako said, but “you can’t hide from a robust constellation of space-based sensors.”

Yet while the last five administrations have identified space-based sensors as a critical need on paper, nothing has come to fruition, he said.

“One of the reasons that we haven’t prioritized the hypersonic threat is we were slow to kind of appreciate not merely the Russia and China problem, but the Russia and China missile problem,” Karako said.

In that regard, he credited the National Defense Strategy and the Nuclear Posture Review, both of which were unveiled by the Trump administration earlier this year, for their renewed focus on a “great power competition” with Russia and China.

Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), chairwoman of the Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee, likewise cited them as helping the U.S. get back on track in the area of hypersonics.

“I think we are aware of the capabilities that our adversaries have, and … whether it’s the Nuclear Posture Review, National Defense Strategy, these are all laid out because of the identification of the threats we have,” she said.

Fischer added that there “probably will be” something about hypersonics in her subcommittee’s portion of this year’s annual defense policy bill.

But the Nuclear Posture Review, in particular, has been controversial for its call to develop a sea-launched nuclear cruise missile and a “low yield” warhead for submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Those new capabilities are part of the deterrence that Hyten cited, but critics say the document is poised to fuel an arms race.

“Calling for the addition of new weapons and weapons capabilities to our arsenal and expanding the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. national security strategy imposes significant economic burdens and undermines decades of United States leadership to prevent the use and spread of nuclear weapons,” more than 40 House Democrats, led by Reps. Earl Blumenauer (Ore.), Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Mike Quigley (Ill.), wrote Monday in a letter to President Trump. 

“We oppose this approach and will continue to support maintaining an effective nuclear deterrent without wasting taxpayer dollars, inciting a new arms race or risking nuclear conflict,” they said.

In addition to the nuclear review, Pentagon officials have been touting budget proposals that would put more money toward hypersonics and missile defense that they say will help close the gap with Russia and China.

Hyten told the Senate Armed Services Committee that there’s $42 million in the fiscal year 2019 budget for the Air Force and the Missile Defense Agency to work on a prototype for space-based sensors.

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, meanwhile, told the House Armed Services Committee last week her fiscal 2019 budget includes $258 million for hypersonics.

And Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director Steven Walker touted his $256.7 million fiscal 2019 budget for hypersonic missile development the same day as Putin’s press conference. Still, he said, DARPA needs more money for infrastructure to test the missiles, as most of the agency’s testing is done out of one facility.

“The dollars that were allocated in this budget were great, but they were really focused on adding more flight tests and getting some of our offensive capability further down the line into operational prototypes,” he told the Defense Writers Group. “We do need an infusion of dollars in our infrastructure to do hypersonics.”

Inhofe, the senator from Oklahoma, said he’s most worried about the missile defense issue, adding there “appears to be no defense” against hypersonics. To him, the answer is reversing defense budget cuts, which Congress has taken steps to do in a two-year budget deal and a recently passed appropriations bill for fiscal 2018.

“We need to make up the losses that we had during the Obama administration by putting a priority, which we are doing now, on the military,” he said.

The Hill



169 Comments on "Russia, China eclipse US in hypersonic missiles"

  1. fmr-paultard on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 8:59 pm 

    why does putin love power so much? he’s smart enough that he’s not that important. the only answer is that he’s afraid. he’s afraid because he killed so many people.

    it’s saddam all over again and the tards cheer because like the leftists in the cold war, they pivot toward russia, sad!

  2. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 9:17 pm 

    Makat

    Do you think the US will just go out with a whimper and not give it everything they got? Come on now…THIS MEANS WAR! And once we nuke the Russians! Those chinks in China are next!

  3. makati1 on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 9:18 pm 

    Fmr, joining the delusional crowd on here? Or, do you have previous membership? lol

  4. Cloggie on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 9:19 pm 

    And once we kill Putin and take over Russia we will have the oil and gas reserves to ourselves! Just like we did with Iraq! Say goodnight Vlad the bad!

    Last time I checked Iraqi insurgents had the “mighty” US army trapped in the Green Zone, with regularly grenades lobbed into it. Patrols outside were ever more rare, because too dangerous, even the road to the airport was too dangerous:

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

    Neocohn Edward “give war a chance” Luttwak had to admit that the US army NEVER occupied Iraq, but merely ran from one insurgency to the next.

    Effectively the US army was thrown out of Iraq and never controlled its oil. The US had tried to add Iraq to its empire, like KSA, Bahrein and Qatar… but failed. Today Iraq is Iranian sphere of influence, not American. Syria same story.

    And you millimind are just a stupid neocohn. It is only a matter of time until your tribe loses the US as well, just like you lost the USSR.

  5. makati1 on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 9:21 pm 

    Mm, I hope the Us goes out with a whimper or the rest of us are toast, you included. The best thing to happen for the rest of the world, me included, is for the Us to breakdown internally and not be able to threaten anyone. Another Us civil war and total financial collapse would be the best thing to happen in 100 years. Let it begin today!

  6. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 9:25 pm 

    Madkat

    WE WILL NEVER GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT! WE WILL FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! LIVE FREE OR DIE!

    Don’t make us George Bush this button over nothing!

  7. makati1 on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 9:51 pm 

    MM, the Us is already slipping away into the night. Pay attention to what is happening outside the US MSM propaganda.

    “The Slow Extraction Of Freedom: The Liberty Crisis”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-28/slow-extraction-freedom-liberty-crisis

    “War Propaganda: Air Force Debuts NextGen Super-Weapons For Air Combat In ‘2030’ (By 2030, the Us will not exist.)

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-28/war-propaganda-air-force-debuts-nextgen-super-weapons-air-combat-2030

    “3 Recent Events That Could Send The US Hurtling Toward World War III”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-28/3-recent-events-could-send-us-hurtling-toward-world-war-iii

    “Pentagon Admits Billions In US Funds Disappeared in Afghanistan To “Fraud, Waste And Abuse”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-28/pentagon-billions-us-funds-disappeared-afghanistan-fraud-waste-and-abuse

    And on and on in the Us’ slippery slide down to the 3rd world.

  8. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 9:52 pm 

    NATO Moves Toward Readying More Troops to Confront Russian Threat

    U.S. heads push for European allies to get many more troops to potential trouble spots within 30 days

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/nato-moves-toward-readying-more-troops-to-confront-russian-threat-1522290156

  9. Cloggie on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 9:57 pm 

    “WE WILL NEVER GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT! WE WILL FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! LIVE FREE OR DIE!”

    https://youtu.be/NVKr5lLUR4A

    That is the big difference with the USSR-1991… Soviet Jews, who had led the 1917 revolution, had long left the building, mostly to Israel. Today “Russians” constitute the largest share of the population in IsItReal.

    Jews like apneaman/millimind and Alan Dershowitz are not going to give up ownership of the US without a fight, just like the British didn’t, but eventually were thrown out, thanks to Dutch weapons and French troops:

    https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/the-second-american-revolution/

    But like in 1776, there needs to be a significant (white) uprising first. Paul Craig Roberts has repeatedly stated that this needs to happen. And it will happen, as the Euro’s will refuse to drown into the third world, as the Soros-millimind crew would love to see happening:

    https://goo.gl/images/aHydCx

    Only when a serious uprising will begin, Europe and Russia can pump weapons into the US via Mexico, that will seek to reclaim lost territory in 1848 and currently is Mexican majority again:

    https://goo.gl/images/wEqdbq

    The best way to initiate an uprising and achieve a breakup is by starting a major foreign war, where tens of thousands of Americans get killed. I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump installed anti-Iranian war hawk Bolton for exactly that reason and that he has an understanding with Xi.

    https://youtu.be/HkUK2k7Ffy0

    P.S. you can buy your 1776 t-shirt from Alex Jones now.lol

    https://goo.gl/images/EUJyzu

  10. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 10:05 pm 

    Clogg

    Alex Jones tee shirts? You are a total imbecile! We dont have enough time before society collapses to fight a civil war. This is the 21st century you dumbshit!

  11. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 10:07 pm 

    Putin is a dead man walking! Sleep well the worlds richest man! Soon you will have a blade shoved up your ass like Ghadifi did!

  12. Cloggie on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 10:17 pm 

    “We dont have enough time before society collapses to fight a civil war. This is the 21st century you dumbshit!”

    Peer-reviewed scientists from Chicago University have figured out that in all likelyhood the 21st century will last just as long as the 18th century did, namely 100 years.

    So what do you mean, “we have no time?”. You have all the time in the world to settle some scores.

    And what’s the difference again between a “societal collapse” and a civil war?

  13. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 10:27 pm 

    Clogg

    Is the World Sleepwalking Into The Next Oil Crisis?

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/03/23/is-the-world-sleepwalking-into-an-oil-crisis/#3dd6e74344cf

    That was a MM inspired article! When are you going to help write a story for the MSM? LOL Nobody reads your stupid blog or bunk sources! I am like the wizard of Oz. The man Behind the curtain pulling all the levers of the MSM!

  14. Cloggie on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 10:28 pm 

    “Putin is a dead man walking! Sleep well the worlds richest man! Soon you will have a blade shoved up your ass like Ghadifi did!”

    Four nukes on Manhattan, Washington, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv… and Henry Ford’s World’s Foremost Problem is solved.

    https://www.amazon.com/International-Jew-Worlds-Foremost-Problem-Abridged/dp/1614271321

    Or as Putin calmly replied to the British Merkel the other day: “you don’t threathen a nuclear power”.

    Poor America, this time the Germany du jour has nukes and China and Iran and possibly Turkey as an ally.

    And then there are all these populists in Europe and America, one of them even occupies the presidency.

    Now if the US can’t even beat Eyeraq, what is Eurasia waiting for? Let them walk straight into the Eurasian knife.

  15. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 10:32 pm 

    We need to capture Putins oil and gas reserves. So the US won’t have a shortage ahead and can make up for the what shale oil can’t..Sorry Clogg its sink or swim! I hope you enjoy the oil shortage! LOL

  16. Boat on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 10:32 pm 

    Clog

    Europe and Russia pump guns into the US? Lol We have better weapons you can buy at gun shows every weekend. Come on over and get yours. Freedom means guns. Your not free.

  17. GregT on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 10:44 pm 

    “Is the World Sleepwalking Into The Next Oil Crisis?”

    That article was written by Robert Rapier MM. He’s been involved in energy since around the time you were born. He would also be one of those boomers that you’re always spouting off about.

  18. Boat on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 10:56 pm 

    Rapier also posted a net 7 mbpd imports when it’s actually around 3.5 and dropping. Not so good on The numbers for an expert.

  19. GregT on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:03 pm 

    “Freedom means guns. Your not free.”

    That would be ‘you’re’ not free Boat, and having to worry about whether one’s children will come home alive from grade school or not, isn’t exactly freedom. That would be more like living in a war zone.

  20. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:05 pm 

    Saudi Arabia must face U.S. lawsuits over Sept. 11 attacks

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-sept11/saudi-arabia-must-face-u-s-lawsuits-over-sept-11-attacks-idUSKBN1H43A1

  21. Boat on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:06 pm 

    Here is the chart Rapier didn’t look at

    https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WTTNTUS2&f=W

  22. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:10 pm 

    uuu

  23. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:13 pm 

    Boat

    If you want to ignore all the experts and sources Rapier cited in his excellent article go right ahead! Your pals over at Peak oil barrel seemed to agree with him. You are grasping at straws!

  24. Boat on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:15 pm 

    This will warm your hearts showing how close the US is to energy independence.

    Total btu.

    https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=35532

  25. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:16 pm 

    Boat

    Ultra-light shale oil makes poor-quality gasoline that has to be put through an additional process (and cost) called catalytic reforming that boosts octane to sales specifications. And most crucial is that this light oil lacks the middle distillates needed to produce diesel and jet fuel. Those are the three biggest refined product markets so ultra-light oil has a lot going against it.

    Right now, the main approach is to blend the ultra-light with heavier grades of oil to create a mixture that can be put into refineries. This has created high demand for heavier oil (20-30 API gravity). The main sources for the U.S. are deep-water Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, Venezuela and Canada. Much of this heavy oil has problems of its own for refiners especially the syn-crude from Canada and Venezuela that contains large volumes of bitumen that requires a special kind of refinery (“cokers”) that can deal with the carbon and sell it as petroleum coke. Most of these refineries are in the Midwest (Chicago area mostly). The deep water GOM crude contains considerable sulphur that must be removed before refining further. As you can see, it is a complex problem. It reflects the fundamental premise of Peak Oil—namely, that we have run out of cheap oil.

  26. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:17 pm 

    Boat

    Chevron CEO warns US shale oil alone cannot meet the world’s growing demand for crude
    https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/01/us-shale-cannot-meet-the-worlds-growing-oil-demand-chevron-ceo-warns.html

    The IEA is grossly overestimating shale growth
    https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/The-IEA-Is-Grossly-Overestimating-Shale-Growth.html

    The Shale Gas Revolution Is A Media Myth
    https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/The-Shale-Gas-Revolution-Is-A-Media-Myth.html

    Peak U.S. Shale Could Be 4 Years Away
    https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Peak-US-Shale-Could-Be-4-Years-Away.html

  27. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:18 pm 

    Boat

    Former head of the EIA

    2020s To Be A Decade of Disorder For Oil
    https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/2020s-To-Be-A-Decade-of-Disorder-For-Oil.html

  28. Boat on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:19 pm 

    Mm

    This is over your head. Some people have to get into the weeds of current data to be correct. Your not one of them.

  29. Boat on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:28 pm 

    Mm

    You throw out links for several discussions in one post. Who the hell knows what your talking about other than at some point there is a shortage that won’t be covered. That’s a bit too broad and general. Your education should have taught you that. Lol like a mak attack. All over the place.

  30. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:28 pm 

    Boat

    HSBC Global Bank: 80% of the worlds conventional fields are declining and world oil shortages ahead
    https://www.scribd.com/document/367688629/HSBC-Peak-Oil-Report-2017

    American’s are going to have to eat their babies soon to stay alive! Just think 99 percent of the worlds population assumes their is centuries of oil left. When they find out its running out! They will have a fucking heart attack and they will be furious!

  31. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:30 pm 

    Boat

    If you want to stick you ignorant head in the sand go right ahead. Just remember you leave your ass exposed for the whole world to kick! Die slow! Remember me when society collapses soon!

  32. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:32 pm 

    A Regional Oil Extraction and Consumption Model. (Dittmar 2017)
    https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.03150.pdf

    Projection of World Fossil Fuels by Country (Mohr, 2015)
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016236114010254

    That first paper was authored by a particle physicist at CERN..He is not some peak oil shill!

  33. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:33 pm 

    Australian Government (Leaked) Study: concludes world peak oil around 2020
    https://web.archive.org/web/20170415190328/https://www.aspo-australia.org.au/References/Bruce/BITRE-Report-117-Oil_supply_trends-2009.pdf

    German Military (leaked) Peak Oil study: oil is used in the production of 95% of all industrial goods, so a shortage of oil would collapse the world economy & world governments
    http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/Peak%20Oil_Study%20EN.pdf

    3 Years till Anarchy!

  34. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:34 pm 

    Boat

    And natural gas is peaking soon as well. LOL

    Shell forecasts global Natural Gas supply shortage in mid-2020s
    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/shell-warns-of-lng-shortage-as-demand-for-liquefied-natural-gas-booms.html

    Chevron expects global Natural Gas supply shortage by 2025
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chevron-lng/chevron-expects-lng-supply-shortage-by-2025-idUSKCN1GI2EH

  35. Boat on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:41 pm 

    Mm

    Lol Nat gas can’t build infrastructure fast enough. What is the price for Nat gas today or the last 5 years for that matter. Your aimlessly floating on other people’s words with no clue.

  36. Boat on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:45 pm 

    That .05 per year renewable growth along with Nat gas has changed how the world views new energy. Well for those that read that is. Start reading kid.

  37. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:50 pm 

    Boat

    Peak oil is a liquid fuels problem. Not an electricity problem that renewable’s can fix. 90 percent of the worlds transportation runs on oil and there is no substitute. And solar and wind are scams . You stupid uneducated hick!

    UC Davis Peer Reviewed Study: It Will Take 131 Years to Replace Oil with Alternatives (Malyshkina, 2010)
    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es100730q

    University of Chicago Peer Reviewed Study: predicts world economy unlikely to stop relying on fossil fuels (Covert, 2016)
    https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.30.1.117

    Solar and Wind produced less than one percent of total world energy in 2016 – IEA WEO 2017
    https://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/KeyWorld2017.pdf

    Renewable energy ‘simply won’t work’: Top Google engineers
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/21/renewable_energy_simply_wont_work_google_renewables_engineers/

    Top scientists show why powering US using 100 percent renewable energy is a delusional fantasy
    http://energyskeptic.com/2017/big-fight-21-top-scientists-show-why-jacobson-and-delucchis-renewable-scheme-is-a-delusional-fantasy/

    At this rate, it’s going to take nearly 400 years to transform the energy system
    https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610457/at-this-rate-its-going-to-take-nearly-400-years-to-transform-the-energy-system/

    The Curse of Energy Efficiency
    https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/02/26/Energy-Efficiency-Curse/

    IEA Sees No Peak Oil Demand ‘Any Time Soon’
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/iea-sees-no-peak-oil-demand-any-time-soon-1488816002

  38. MASTERMIND on Wed, 28th Mar 2018 11:51 pm 

    Boat

    What 0.5 renewable growth?

    Fossil Fuel Share of Global Energy since 1990 – BP 2017
    https://imgur.com/k7VecMq

    Its always easy to tell when someone is lying because they wont cite any proof.

  39. MASTERMIND on Thu, 29th Mar 2018 12:05 am 

    Dear reader

    Here is a piece of advice, Make a little space in your mind for the idea that “things could go sideways”. The people that think things “can’t go wrong” will be flipping out, you’ll have an advantage…”

  40. Cloggie on Thu, 29th Mar 2018 12:09 am 

    Europe and Russia pump guns into the US? Lol We have better weapons you can buy at gun shows every weekend. Come on over and get yours. Freedom means guns. Your not free.

    Rockman has a German Luger which he intends to use against right-wing whites with an attitude. At he least he is loyal to his (Mexican) mother and a fine identitarian if there ever was one. And he has my blessing, as long as he stays South of the Red River of the South.

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

    #MakeMexicoGreatAgain

    And what’s your 1776 shtf-plan, boat? Going back to Sweden and fight against a Muslim takeover? Or are you going to rent a room in Meathead’s Italian refuge and follow your Houston Rockets via satellite?

    http://www.2kratings.com/wp-content/uploads/NBA-2K18-Houston-Rockets.jpg

  41. Cloggie on Thu, 29th Mar 2018 12:14 am 

    What 0.5 renewable growth?

    Fossil Fuel Share of Global Energy since 1990 – BP 2017
    https://imgur.com/k7VecMq

    Its always easy to tell when someone is lying because they wont cite any proof.

    Hahaha, Saudi-Arabia just killed the oil economy and replaced it with hydrogen:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-28/saudi-arabia-softbank-ink-deal-on-200-billion-solar-project

    Americans can’t imagine anything beyond oil. They achieved planetary prominence with oil… and will come down with depleting oil.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHz-zZoBnbc

  42. GregT on Thu, 29th Mar 2018 12:15 am 

    “Here is a piece of advice, Make a little space in your mind for the idea that “things could go sideways”. The people that think things “can’t go wrong” will be flipping out, you’ll have an advantage…””

    Very good advice.

    By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

    – Benjamin Franklin

  43. MASTERMIND on Thu, 29th Mar 2018 12:21 am 

    Greg

    I love that Franklin quote Greg. Thanks for sharing that. I will save that.

  44. GregT on Thu, 29th Mar 2018 12:24 am 

    “Lol We have better weapons you can buy at gun shows every weekend. Come on over and get yours.”

    One of the more popular models being the AK-47, originally manufactured in the USSR in 1947, now being manufactured in the good ol’ US of A in 2018.

    http://www.kalashnikov-usa.com

  45. MASTERMIND on Thu, 29th Mar 2018 12:32 am 

    Clogg about Saudi’s solar fantasy. It wont work

    Desert sun in Qatar too hot for solar panels to work
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/desert-sun-in-qatar-too-hot-for-solar-panels-to-work-h23kmktbp

    And air pollution and dust can cut solar power down by 25%.
    http://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/solar-pollution

  46. MASTERMIND on Thu, 29th Mar 2018 12:35 am 

    Summer temperatures that can reach 50C, combined with the build-up of dust, can reduce the efficiency of a photovoltaic panel by more than half.
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/desert-sun-in-qatar-too-hot-for-solar-panels-to-work-h23kmktbp

    LOL Good luck Saudi’s you dumbshit! Too much imbreading has lowered their IQ’s to the level of retards! But I guess its just unnatural to give up and not try something.

  47. GregT on Thu, 29th Mar 2018 12:38 am 

    After all,

    “No One Knows Ak’s Like “We” Do!.”

    Nope, not even them commies, who’ve been manufacturing them for close to three quarters of a century.

    http://www.kalashnikov-usa.com

  48. GregT on Thu, 29th Mar 2018 12:47 am 

    “LOL Good luck Saudi’s you dumbshit! Too much imbreading has lowered their IQ’s to the level of retards!”

    Which kind of begs the question; Why do US government officials still continue to look up to them?

  49. MASTERMIND on Thu, 29th Mar 2018 12:51 am 

    If a Nuclear Bomb Explodes Nearby, Here’s What You Should Do

    https://www.sciencealert.com/if-a-nuclear-bomb-explodes-nearby-what-you-should-do-science-do-not-drive

  50. Boat on Thu, 29th Mar 2018 12:53 am 

    Clog

    Sorry, no plans of moving. Unless I went back to my home town when it gets difficult to drive. Small town of less than 3000. Another part of America you have no clue about.

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