hypersonic
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The Army is also developing a hypersonic missile with a range of over 1,000 miles that travels at five times the speed of sound.
Aside from using air defenses, Beijing may also be able to hit American ships with superfast hypersonic missiles hundreds of miles from the shore.
Ukrainian operators have used Patriots to shoot down Russian hypersonic missiles, particularly as they slow on descent, surprising defense analysts who didn’t think the Patriot would be able to intercept such missiles.
It has contracts with drug companies and also the military, which tests technology at hypersonic speeds as the capsules return to Earth.
From Los Angeles Times
“From a defense standpoint, whether it’s a drone swarm that’s coming at a military base, whether it’s a hypersonic missile coming at the United States…you want to be able to take them down potentially faster than a human could alone,” Michael told Bloomberg News.
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