Ultima Thule
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Post something operational cruise missiles Burya and Buran was old and canceled project of 50'sLook up Burya(USSR) and RSS-40 Buran(USSR)
Burya range: 8000-8500km
"the daring concept for an intercontinental missile was the second stage, which was powered by a ramjet engine at its operational speed of Mach 3."
"The first stage was a ballistic-rocket-derived booster, which accelerated the Burya to altitude and the speed necessary to ignite its ramjet engine: a ramjet does not operate below subsonic speeds"
"Successful tests were achieved after official cancellation of the project, when it continued as a technology demonstration. It was a casualty, like the USAF Navaho, of the greater simplicity and relative invulnerability to interception of intercontinental ballistic missiles."
RSS-40 Buran: 8500km
two prototypes were developed but never flight tested and it was cancelled in 1957 in favor of R-7 Semyorka since they considered ICBMs unstoppable.
The above two intercontinental cruise missiles were developed in the 50s. The only reason no country pursued them further was bcuz they favored ICBMs. The interest is back in this area though. US/Russia/China are now developing hypersonic cruise missiles based on hypersonic glide vehicles using scramjet engines.
Link below if image doesnt show up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51#/media/File:X-51A_Waverider_on_B-52_2009.jpg
The limits to subsonic cruise missile ranges has to do with physics. Burya relied on ramjet to achieve such a range and just like that X51 and others would be relying on scramjet to achieve even greater ranges and for that u need speed beyond subsonic speeds.
No amount of ur personal wishes are going to change facts.
as for X-51 is in development not operational and look its range from your link
Range: 460 miles (740 km)
its a short range missiles
i am show you lots of operational subsonic CM with a range of 2500 Km+ take a look yourself
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M-54_Klub
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-86_ALCM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-129_ACM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_(missile)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJ-10_(missile)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyunmoo-3
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-55
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshkat_(missile)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirbhay
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye_(missile)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RK-55
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOM_(missile)
Do some reaserch before you posting kid