Message from @Mad Hatter
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so its not important for missles to go fast thats ur theory ?
they go mach 3 they are gonna upgrade it to mach 5 why isnt mach 3 fast enough ?
why dont they just go mach 22 like nasa does
why would they upgrade it from mach 3 to mach 5 when they could just make it go mach 22 im not a military expert but i think the faster ur missle goes the better no ?
ballistic missiles will go mach ~20 no matter what
because they are ballistic missiles
if you want to throw something at a target halfway around the world you need to throw it at mach 20
if you have a cruise missile that's a different matter
because it's affected by the atmosphere
so it can fly with wings
but it also needs constant power to keep flying long
unless it's a hypersonic glide vehicle
the fastest missle is mach 5
what missile are you talking about?
ICBMs go far faster than mach 5
missles in general no outerspace fantasy stuff
ICBMs go mach 5
some HGVs go mach ~10 iirc
Peak speed for an ICBM is in the ballpark of 6-7km/s (any faster and the payload would go orbital), and it takes about 10 minutes to accelerate to that speed. New York to Moscow is 7500km
nasa goes 17500 mph
icbm not even close
nasa goes ~8km/s for orbit
so it is close
no nasa goes 17500 miles per hour
convert that to km/s
28,000 km per hour
not kilometers per hour
kilometers per second
are u saying icbms go faster
icbms go 6-7km/s as you said
orbital velocities are about 8km/s
or they would go orbital lol thats funny
7 < 8
17500 mph is 7.8232 km/s
ok
ICBMs go 6-7 km/s which is slower if you are capable of doing arithmetic
so the icbms dont go as fast on purpose or it would go orbital
yes i understand what they tell us
they go as fast as they need to to fall on their targets