Do you know what the funniest part about this news is? No, not the speed of 27 Mach, where there simply are no materials capable of withstanding the friction at such speed against the atmosphere for 10 seconds. The funny part is something else. The comparison of the rocket to a meteorite is very apt. The president apparently forgot his school astronomy, where it was explained that meteorites do not move at all until someone picks them up. By definition, a meteorite becomes a meteorite when the speed of the meteoroid arriving from space becomes zero. There, it became zero – and a meteorite appeared. Thus, a meteorite by definition is the remnants lying on the ground of various things that really flew into the atmosphere at speeds of 30-50 Mach, and most of which remained there as vapor. And what ultimately acquired zero speed and rest – that is a meteorite.
Another scenario, when a warhead is delivered to its target at 27 and even much higher speeds of sound, is when the target is more or less in the same area as the warhead.
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