Message from @jeremy
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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
fastest ASMs are about mach 5
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
no point making them bigger than necessary