China can find and kill the B-21 ‘Raider’ with hypersonic missiles: study
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Simulated war game shows new US stealth bomber may fall foul of missiles using the ‘Qian Xuesen trajectory’.
  • The new US stealth bomber may be taken by surprise by ultra-fast missiles coming from near space with the unpredictable ‘Qian Xuesen trajectory’
  • Beating the American bomber will be pivotal in any future conflict with China, as it has the potential to slip behind China’s core defence
  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    You don’t need to launch the missile from the same point as the detector, you can launch closer to the aircraft. And the b21 is a sub sonic bomber, probably flying about mach 0.8 or so. Even if you needed a lot more missile locations for non hypersonic missiles, it’d still be orders of magnitude cheaper. Seems like carrier groups are about the only target valuable enough to spend a hypersonic on.