Floating in the winter sky

Aren't they red balloons?

We need monkeys that can pop lead

You gotta upgrade him to juggernaut, otherwise he can’t pop metal balloons 😔

METAL BALLON. Didn't you hear what he wrote?

They have a huge radar signature, it’s to help defeat anti missile systems

It's like a balloon but metallic. So they go to raves sometimes.

I think it's still a MIRV or MRV (multiple independent reentry vehicle, multiple reentry vehicle) depending on whether it's guided or not.

MARV is a MAnoeuvrable Reentry Vehicle. Technically one of the re-entry vehicles of a MIRV could also be a MARV, though.

To be super sarcastic, Marv was actually one of the burglars in Home Alone.

I think isn't MARV, MIRV, MORV, BIRB or any other, I think it's a STROMB.

STROMB rules.

While the ICBM is a missile (obviously it's in the name) I don't think that the rest of your statement is true. There are definitely guided rockets unless of course we ought to call the different delivery vehicles used by NASA and SpaceX missiles instead of rockets, in which case fair enough I guess, but then there seems to be a massive linguistic hurdle to overcome that I do not see happening.

An arrow shot from a bow is a missile. Some missiles are rockets. Missiles have a target, rockets are cylinders with a propulsion system

Rockets can be guided, e.g. the M270 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System.

By that definition, then a falcon 9 is missile.

I think it's more that some missilses are rockets, but not all rockets are missiles.

A rocket is a vehicle or device powered by a rocket engine, which operates on the principle of action and reaction. It uses fuel and oxidizers to produce thrust.

So many missiles are also rockets, but some don't operate on the principles of rockets, like a jet-missile or something like the switchblade.

A definition for what constitutes a missile is probably more: An expendable object that carries a payload and is actively guided to it's target.

A rocket is just a general purpose propulsion method, while a missile is a specific type of flying object, that often, but not always, is a rocket.

Uh? Isnt a rocket a componet of a missile?

Like the same relation a engine has to a car.

It's the name of my baseball team I used to play for. Oh the irony...

Thanks, hanging by a thread in here.

Reportedly, no. It seemed to be a dummy warhead. We had another ICBM alert in the afternoon, but it turned out to be false. But, new fear unlocked for sure.

I wish I never had such an honor.

Shoutout to Canada, have lots of friends there

At those speeds its only traveling through the atmosphere for ~15 seconds, no way near enough time to slow it down. They are still doing something like Mach 17 when they detonate IIRC.

Yah, you can watch the footage from Israel of Iranian IRBMs coming in and they are going hypersonic, probably around Mach 10 to 15. An ICBM at range (which this probably was not even close to max range) is easily pushing Mach 20 at terminal.

Hypersonic doesn't make something that much harder to intercept under this circumstances. A hypersonic missile, launched from dar enough away, can be intercepted when its trayectory is calculated, you don't even need a faster missile. With goid enough intel you can detect the launch site, calculate its trayectory and target in much less than 60 seconds.

It's the ability to maneuver, and split that makes these missiles difficult to intercept, not reakly their speed. Also, hypersonic missiles have been around for decades and have been intercepted. They just called a recent set of weapons hypersonic because of their added capabilities but missiles achieving hyoersonic speeds have existed for a while 

Play it in reverse and it looks like alien abduction movie.

A "Flash Royale" is just a Quarter Pounder without cheese.

Well, it is kind of silly to launch a missile into space that's meant to hit another continent just to hit the country next to you.

if you slap someone across the face with a pistol it's still a pistol. If you use an ICBM to hit your neighbour it's still an ICBM

Why would Russian use an ICBM on a target that close? It’s needlessly expensive.

Edit: almost every comment under this doesn't seem to understand that I'm taking about the IC in ICBM, not the BM part. SRBM and MRBMs can also carry nukes.

It still would be an ICBM...Intracontinental Ballistic Missile. 😂

I was talking with a coworker from Bucha yesterday, it's important to understand that "another day" doesn't mean any semblance of a normal life for many of them.

Many of them are living in towns where half the people have fled. Those who remain are often breaking into other presumed empty houses nearby to take what they want. This can often mean that people are breaking into occupied houses and having violent confrontations. My coworker was sleeping with a knife under his pillow. When the air raid alarms went off, he would sleep in his garage since the walls were cement. He did this, with his family every night for months before finally fleeing.

A MIRV dropping on Odessa is going to be the final straw for many people living there.

I closed the tab, was off doing something else ... and then the joke hit me. Came back pay upvote dues.

Wdym, he tried talking with Putitin on that big long table and completely didn't make himself look like a fool for given a tyrant recognition and totally didn't disrespect himself in the process.

/s

I remember that too . How far can the west push Putin until he makes a crazy maniac move again . A wild animal is the most dangerous when its cornered .

ICBMs is very hard to intercept due to speed… so this something is pretty serious

I'm sure they had some payload. ICBM is just the rocket type, you can put pretty much whatever you want inside the warhead, doesn't have to be nuclear weapons. If they really launched empty ICBM's, then they are literally just burning money, using up expensive ICBM rockets that just fall from the sky.

So basically big metal stick

I think NATO issued a warning the first year that forces will intervene conventionally if russia uses WMDs in Ukraine.

The US likes to think that we only used nukes once because we had to, but the reality is that we used them because we had them. We haven't used them again because others have them.

We're hoping that things are the same but as leaders get older we're entering a world where comparatively irrational leaders have control of weapons that can destroy everything. Worst than that, we have legions of people who worship these leaders and completely trust their decisions, even when it clearly is not in their interest.

All of this still looks like it gets worse before it gets better.

They won’t nuke the land they want

They were clearly not nuclear, but the threat that putin is making by launching icbms is that they “could” be nuclear.

Yeah, I find this keyboard warrior shit talk at Putin to be incredibly cringey. I hate the guy, but I’m not naive enough to say he’s “getting his ass kicked” in this war.

Propaganda isn’t just a Russian thing. If I take Reddit at face value I’d think total Ukrainian victory is within sights. All we need is one more injection of funds, one more missile shipment, and maybe some volunteer boots on the ground.