Russia and other developments in Hypersonic Research

Austin wrote:US working on similar system air based

http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/08/us-still-leads-hypersonic-weapon.html

PapaDragon wrote:
Yeah come to think of it, it was USAF that started developing this system first and I remember that all tests were heavily advertised in media and news. They were acting pretty high and mighty about it. And so far none of the tests were fully successful.

And here you have Russia starting late and successfully completing test run first.

This latest project picks up where the Albatros hypersonic warhead project of mid-1980s USSR left off. That project was in response to the US missile defence development and President Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars  program.


This weapon is designed to be installed instead of traditional warheads on long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles. It starts working at a height of about 96km and flies at its target at a speed of 5-7km per second.


Before entering dense atmospheric layers the projectile executes a complex manoeuvre directly over the target, one that makes it difficult for anti-missile defence systems to intercept it.

Russia declassified the "invisibility cloak" of plasma for cruise missiles


The plasma gun providing missile stealth "Meteorite", a training manual for future designers

Russia declassified the "invisibility cloak" of plasma for cruise missiles

Strategic supersonic cruise missile 3M-25 "Meteorite" (P-750) with photo http://only-paper.ru/ site
The plasma gun providing missile stealth "Meteorite", a training manual for future designers

Scientific and Engineering Production Association (NPO Mash) declassified a unique plasma gun, made invisible to enemy radar and air defense systems strategic supersonic cruise missile 3M25 "meteorite". At the time of irradiation by enemy radar "Meteor" created around it impenetrable for the radar radiation cloud of ionized gas. Unique gun will be within the next year transferred to the Russian universities as a textbook for future engineers and designers in the design of hypersonic vehicles.

As told to "News" in the NPO Mash, is currently negotiating the transfer of unique products come with the leadership of the Moscow Aviation Institute, National Technical University. NE Bauman, the Baltic State Technical University "Voenmech" them. DF Ustinova and Ural State University. BN Yeltsin.

According to the tactical-technical task 3M25 was supposed to fly at speeds close to hypersonic, and thus be invisible to enemy radar. But designers Mash NGOs faced the problem.

- It is best when irradiated plane or cruise missile radar can see the blades of the turbine engine and the inlet edge. These design elements like corner reflectors, - says the "News" editor in chief of Internet project Militaryrussia Dmitry Kornev. - Hiding from the radar of these structural elements, the problem with the radar signature of the aircraft is decided by 70-80%. Therefore, stealth planes make the air intake in the form of the Latin letter S. His bending blocks the passage of radio waves, but at the same time does not allow a rocket or an aircraft to fly at supersonic speeds.

Designers NPO Mash equipped product normal air intake, allowing to develop a supersonic speed, and protect it from enemy radar from a plasma screen TV.

Plasma - a quasi- neutral ionized gas. On the one hand, it completely absorbs radar radiation, on the other - can itself be an antenna for transmitting signals.

The plasma screen on the "Meteor" formed a special electronic device - "plasma gun", created by the specialists of Keldysh Research Center. The unique device is located in the air intake of jet engine and a rocket during an emergency as it unfolds in front of the rocket "metal radio-network". In effect, it is electricity generated special electric plant, powered by a propulsion rocket engine worked.

One of the developers of "plasma gun" director of the Keldysh Center Anatoly Koroteev described "Izvestia" how it works:

- If you throw a tennis ball against the wall, it will bounce back and return, - says the expert. - Similarly, the radar signal reflected from the aircraft and returns to the receiving antenna. If the wall of angular faces and they are inclined in different directions, the ball bounces anywhere, but do not come back. This principle is based US "stealth". If we impose a wall of soft mats and throw them the ball, he just slap on her to lose energy and fall away from the wall. Similarly, plasma formation absorbs radio frequency energy.

The complex with a cruise missile "Meteor" was preparing to surrender for service. He was made a full ammunition to be mounted on ballistic missile submarine project 667AM. However, the agreement of the USSR and the USA on the Limitation of Strategic Arms (SALT-2) has stopped working.

- Specifically create a plasma screen in front of a cruise missile now is not so important, as it was in the 80s of the last century, when developed "Meteorite" - told "Izvestiya" Professor of the Academy of Military Sciences Vadim Kozyulin. - The car made under the terms of the then breakthrough missile defense when the enemy could see it only on a collision course. Today, radar facilities is irradiated from the top, bottom, side. Therefore, the only possibility to go unnoticed - is to fly at hypersonic speeds in six or more Makhov. At such speeds around the unit itself forms a plasma cloud. And it is important that in Russia already know how to use it and how radio-protective shield, and like an antenna, which can be used to transmit command and control signals.

Russia declassified the "invisibility cloak" of plasma for cruise missiles

If you design a super stealth bomber ,using Plasma tactics ,and this bomber can fly in the mesosphere at altitudes of navigational satellites , from 30k to 50km altitude.

Then Russia will have a bomber that will be near impossible to stop with traditional NATO air defenses or high altitude missiles.

Such bombers will have the power to fly above NATO aircraft carrier groups and take pictures from above of their entire formation and without being detected but even if were detected , they will have no way to stop them ,because will fly in a zone their Aegis defenses can't intercept anything. and neither their combat planes will be able to intercept ,because will fly too high and too fast and will not be visible in their radars if have plasma stealth.

So such a plasma stealth bomber will force United States to sign a peace deal with Russia and remove the ABM shield in Europe and even remove their military bases from all eastern Europe and any place near Russian borders .

If you control the space above any warship of plane ,then you will have a huge advantage of the capability to fight and without the enemy have a way to stop you or fight back.

Russian HGVs

With  the  trauma  of  the  collapse  of  the  Soviet  Union  in  1991,  it  is  unsurprising  that  Russia's definition  of  strategic  stability  is  much  broader  and  encompasses  other  'domains'  alongside  the traditional  nuclear  aspects,  including  the  economic  and  social.  Despite  this  broader  perspective,
nuclear weapons remain integral to Russian strategy and are inseparable from the other domains.

As  the  Russian  military  has  recovered  since  its  post Cold  War  low,  the  asymmetry  between  its armed  forces  and  those  of  the  US  has  not  only  driven  military  modernisation  efforts  but  also shifted  Russia's  doctrine  in  coping  with  its  primary  competitor.  For  Russia,  the  US  is far  superior
conventionally  and  therefore  Russia  must  rely  more  heavily  on  its  nuclear  weapons  to  counter perceived  regional  threats,  while  maintaining  its  ongoing  nuclear  modernisation  programmes  to maintain  strategic  parity  with  the  US. With  verification  under  the  2010  New  Strategic  Arms

Reduction Treaty (the New START Treaty) due to expire in 2021 and limited prospects for further arms  control,  there  is  no  clear  pathway  for  restraining  Russia's  continued  emphasis  on  nuclear weapons.

From  Russia's  perspective,  regional  missile  defences,  such  as  NATO's  European  Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) missile defence system, or the US's national Ground Based Midcourse Defense  (GMD)  system  have  the  potential  to  undermine  the  credibility  of  Russia's nuclear
deterrent  unless  Moscow  finds  a  means  of  overcoming  and  penetrating  such  missile  defences. With a reported range of 9,900 km, Russia's Yu 71 has the potential to do just that. According to the US, EPAA is not directed at Russia, but was instead developed and deployed with threats from the 'south east' in mind.

Nonetheless, Russia's perception of the threat to its arsenal from missile defence has prompted the pursuit of HGVs and other forms of military diversification.
As previously reported in IHS Jane's Intelligence Review in June 2015, Russia's efforts to develop a modern HGV centre around the Yu-71, also known as Project 4202. Other Russian hypersonic work   includes   a   second   experimental   HGV the   Yu -74  which   flew   in   2016   from   the Dombarovskiy test site, near Orenburg, and landed on target at the Kura test site, Kamchatka, and the  short range  3M22  Zircon  HCM,  which  is  expected  to  enter  into  production  in  2018.  Russia's modern  hypersonic  efforts  may  also  reach  back  to  2001  when  it  tested  an  SS 19 'Stiletto'  (UR -100N)  intercontinental  ballistic  missile  (ICBM)  that  could  have  included  a  glide  vehicle.  Project 4202,  with  the  Yu-71  vehicle,  was  first  tested  in  2011.  There  were  several  other  tests  before  its
first successful test in April 2016. According to the Sputnik news site (which has close links to the Kremlin) in 2016, at least 20 Yu 71 HGVs will be produced, with three per booster missile, thought to be the new RS -28 Sarmat, which is due to gradually replace the SS -19. The same news source suggests the Sarmat will also be capable of carrying up to 24 Yu-74 HGVs.

Given  Russia's  shift  towards  an  increasingly  diversified  military  strategy,  Moscow's  focus  on hypersonic  technology  ensures  that  both  nuclear  and  conventional  strike  options  will  remain a vailable in the face of ballistic missile defence (BMD), and helps to ensure the flexibility required
by an interconnected doctrine that blends conventional and nuclear forces. In addition to flexibility, while rebuilding its conventional capabilities Russia has increasingly relied on nuclear weapons as a  continued  symbol  of  great  power  status.  Hypersonic  technology  consolidates  both  trends  by ensuring the continued relevance of Russia's nuclear arsenal and at the same time bolstering its military prestige in the sense that it is not only keeping up with the US and China, but may even be
surpassing   them.   Speaking   in   2014,   Boris   Obnosov,   head   of   Russia's   Tactical   Missiles Corporation,  said  in  a  news  interview,  "In  my  estimation,  the  first  hypersonic  products should appear ... in this decade before 2020." This estimate was reiterated in 2016.

Austin wrote:  According to the Sputnik news site (which has close links to the Kremlin) in 2016, at least 20 Yu 71 HGVs will be produced, with three per booster missile, thought to be the new RS -28 Sarmat, which is due to gradually replace the SS -19. The same news source suggests the Sarmat will also be capable of carrying up to 24 Yu-74 HGVs.

gaurav wrote:

Austin wrote:  According to the Sputnik news site (which has close links to the Kremlin) in 2016, at least 20 Yu 71 HGVs will be produced, with three per booster missile, thought to be the new RS -28 Sarmat, which is due to gradually replace the SS -19. The same news source suggests the Sarmat will also be capable of carrying up to 24 Yu-74 HGVs.

AGAIN THAT sputnik news.When we will learn that Sputnik = CNN. The Russian CNN  aka Sputnik news story are now being passed as official news stories by western media. There is till now no sign of YU-71.Yes lot of test were held but no where it is told that that YU-71 and YU-74 tests were done.

There was just one sputnik news article on this hypersonic test.

The main issue here some interfax tells about the zirkon... i think i am right.. recentlyinterfax link told that zirkon test are scheduled within a month or so.

The western media (Janes) become zealous and starts vomiting from all sources basically Sputnik.

The hypersonic has become a buzzword , hence janes and English media are quick to launch into a tirade of misinformation.


Why janes does not take articles from NON-CNN  sources .


ITAR-TASS.
INTERFAX(Recently  a link was given in anti-ship thread ..by "mindstorm').That is real news. Interfax does not give fakenews unlike sputnik.
kremlin.ru
Izvestia

There are also lot of positive things going on with Trump coming to power.Recently some info has suggested Russia has cut funding for
whole series of SARMAT tests posssibly the warheads.(Which are the envy of the west).
This is a definitely a good sign by Russia towards U.S.Some news propaganda cannot stand that Russia is showing friendship towards Trump hence
they continue with the series of misinformation.

Sputniknews at its best
They are saying 20 HGV were tested  ,this is fake news.
Russia MOD are clearly told a single payload was tested and a single payload was delivered to kamchatka.

Right now the Pentagon is developing several hypersonic vehicles as part of the DARPA Falcon Project. The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW), which accelerated to about 6 kilometers a second during flight tests in 2015 and 2016, is in the final stages of development now.

"A US hypersonic glider is carried by a rocket booster into outer space. It then separates from the launch vehicle, speeds up, levels out and glides about 100 miles above the sea level. It maneuvers its way to the target and then swoops down, unseen by radars on the ground, designed to spot higher-flying ICBMs,” Dmitry Kornev, editor-in-chief of Militaryrussia Online, told Izvestia.

George1 wrote:

Right now the Pentagon is developing several hypersonic vehicles as part of the DARPA Falcon Project. The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW), which accelerated to about 6 kilometers a second during flight tests in 2015 and 2016, is in the final stages of development now.

"A US hypersonic glider is carried by a rocket booster into outer space. It then separates from the launch vehicle, speeds up, levels out and glides about 100 miles above the sea level. It maneuvers its way to the target and then swoops down, unseen by radars on the ground, designed to spot higher-flying ICBMs,” Dmitry Kornev, editor-in-chief of Militaryrussia Online, told Izvestia.

https://sputniknews.com/russia/201705171053692656-us-russia-radars/

miketheterrible wrote:US is still off by a while in their hypersonic weapon while Zircon is a reality. In a lot of actuality, they used tech from soviet era and already implemented it in the joint Indian-Russian weapon Brahmos. Refined and now placed for Russian use. So technically, India and Russia beat both the west and China at a hypersonic weapon.

Russia is developing the system and counter system for hypersonic in a very serious way. They are putting a lot of resources and effort into it.

PapaDragon wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:US is still off by a while in their hypersonic weapon while Zircon is a reality. In a lot of actuality, they used tech from soviet era and already implemented it in the joint Indian-Russian weapon Brahmos. Refined and now placed for Russian use. So technically, India and Russia beat both the west and China at a hypersonic weapon.

Russia is developing the system and counter system for hypersonic in a very serious way. They are putting a lot of resources and effort into it.

Zircon is not a competition to this thing. However that new glide warhead for Sarmat is something that can easily get the job done if converted to conventional payload version.

Sarmat is supposed to carry 3 of them plus decoys. Smaller cheaper version of rocket that carries just one would suffice. Or maybe just use Yars rocket to get it up in the air.  

miketheterrible wrote:What about RS-26 Rubezh? What is happening with that? It was successfully tested multiple of times and for years. It also has a maneuverable warhead that is hypersonic.

The all-new Voronezh-class radar stations are able to spot and track America’s hypersonic aircraft designed to bypass Russia’s missile warning system. Until very recently the trajectories of these “fast runners” were impossible to register, much less to track.

Right now the Pentagon is developing several hypersonic vehicles as part of the DARPA Falcon Project. The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW), which accelerated to about 6 kilometers a second during flight tests in 2015 and 2016, is in the final stages of development now.

"A US hypersonic glider is carried by a rocket booster into outer space. It then separates from the launch vehicle, speeds up, levels out and glides about 100 miles above the sea level. It maneuvers its way to the target and then swoops down, unseen by radars on the ground, designed to spot higher-flying ICBMs,” Dmitry Kornev, editor-in-chief of Militaryrussia Online, told Izvestia.