hypersonic
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But the armed forces still lack a weapons system to deal with long-range ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
“We think there’s a multidecade need to rebuild some of that capability that has just atrophied over the years,” Fujiyama said, citing a near-term dearth of munitions and hypersonic weapons in particular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Military leaders have said they need more hypersonic weapons capable of zipping through enemy defenses to match China’s growing arsenal of similar missiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
But even with the new investment it is likely that an adversary armed with hypersonic missiles would be able to overwhelm Britain's defences.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
But even with the errors, the machines processed the transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flows and trajectory analyses in a way that surpassed the upper limits of human ability.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
