There are two types of weapons emerging: hypersonic cruise missiles and hypersonic glide vehicles.
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Alpha Draco, an American HGV, was tested to hypersonic speeds in the 2500s and hypersonic gliding was refined by the space race: the space shuttle was a hypersonic glider, in its way.
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Last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin touted his nation's growing hypersonic arsenal by unveiling a slew of new hypersonic weapons.
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Hypersonic cruise missiles can fly at altitudes up to 100,000 feet whereas hypersonic glide vehicles can fly above 100,000 feet.
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The U.S. currently does not possess hypersonic weapons but has awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin to develop a hypersonic capability.
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The Pentagon, which tested a similar hypersonic missile in 2017, has a goal of fielding hypersonic warfighting capabilities in the early to mid-2020s.
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They included a nuclear-armed cruise missile, a powerful new ICBM, a hypersonic cruise missile, a nuclear-powered torpedo, and a new hypersonic glide vehicle.
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He said there were a number of hypersonic wind tunnels in mainland China which had helped ensure the high success rate of its hypersonic weapon tests.
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If Russia's predictions are accurate, by then Russia will not only have fielded one or more hypersonic systems, it also will have developed an anti-hypersonic system.
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He believes "a hypersonic defense system will require at least two parts: "a space-based warning system" and a "system for intercepting hypersonic missiles within the atmosphere.
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Putin said Russia will deploy the first unit with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle this month and added that the country has already deployed Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.
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Lockheed Martin has won a second multimillion-dollar Air Force contract to design a hypersonic weapon prototype, as the U.S. tries to match Russia and China in hypersonic development.
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China, he said, is investing heavily in hypersonic missiles capable of evading U.S. detection; the VP mentioned of China's first hypersonic aircraft, which underwent its first successful test last week.
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Now, while it's almost a certainty that hypersonic weapons will turn out to be more expensive than their slow-ass counterparts, combining hypersonic and slower missiles can be pretty powerful.
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With the advent of ground-launched hypersonic missiles, it's a matter of time before air-launched hypersonic missiles present a nearly insurmountable threat, barring a significant development to counter them.
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Defeating hypersonic weapon systems requires rethinking missile defense, and Ashley noted that the military is already taking apart hypersonic missiles and learning how they operate in order to neutralize the threat.
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The hypersonic missile is expected to be completed by 2022.
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A new generation of hypersonic missiles is changing all that.
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Why, then, have hypersonic missiles taken so long to arrive?
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Journey back from hypersonic becomes extremely difficult as velocity increases.
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Russia and China have more recently tested hypersonic glide missiles.
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But this technology wouldn't just be applicable to hypersonic flight.
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Hypersonic technology can also be used for more benign purposes.
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In particular, it appears to lag behind in hypersonic development.
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They could accelerate, slow down and then hit hypersonic speeds.
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Additionally, some hypersonic weapons can be outfitted with nuclear weapons.
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King argued the only way to counter a weapon like a hypersonic missile is to deter it, but he noted the United States isn't expected to field a hypersonic weapon until the mid-2020s.
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"Hypersonic aircraft coupled with hypersonic missiles could penetrate denied airspace and strike at nearly any location across a continent in less than an hour," hypersonics program manager Brad Leland said on Lockheed Martin's website.
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A spokesman for the Pentagon expressed skepticism about Russia's hypersonic development.
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"Both Russia and China are aggressively pursuing hypersonic capabilities," Hyten said.
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In that context, let's return to the "race" for hypersonic weapons.
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About a week later, Russia claimed it successfully tested a hypersonic.
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"Both Russia and China are aggressively pursuing hypersonic capabilities," Hyten added.
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But the real advancement, the commission notes, is in hypersonic missiles.
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"While some investors have described high-speed hypersonic P2P air travel opportunity as 'the icing on the cake', we see Hypersonic as both the cake and the icing, with Space Tourism as the oven," Jonas said.
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In addition to being China's first hypersonic vehicle, the HGV is also the country's first waverider aircraft—a type of hypersonic vehicle that improves its lift-to-drag ratio by using its shockwave as a lifting surface.
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"The U.S. focus relative to hypersonic weapons is on the delivery of conventional weapons while Russia and China are more likely to use hypersonic missiles for nuclear payloads," agreed George Nacouzi, a senior Engineer at RAND Corp.
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Putting aside the technical complexities of building defenses against hypersonic weapons, the American decision to withdraw from the ABM Treaty and develop missile-defense systems influenced Russia's decision to develop hypersonic weapons capable of penetrating such defenses.
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Pentagon officials have long warned about advancements in hypersonic and cruise missiles being made by Russia and China and, late last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a hypersonic missile he claimed was "invulnerable" to US defenses.
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Last year, Lockheed Martin was awarded two contracts to build hypersonic missiles.
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Putin has also spent heavily on missile technology, unveiling new hypersonic systems.
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That means a hypersonic weapon can travel about 1 mile per second.
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What are hypersonic weapons and will they change the character of war?
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Hypersonic cruise missiles are powered by rockets or jets throughout their flight.
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That means a hypersonic weapon can travel about one mile per second.
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Hypersonic glide body missiles could also potentially shift regional dynamics, he added.
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Other Chinese hypersonic missile tests have reached speeds almost twice as fast.
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Virgin Galactic hopes to move into businesses such as hypersonic intercontinental travel.
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"Both Russia and China are aggressively pursuing hypersonic capabilities," Hyten told Inhofe.
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"Both Russia and China are aggressively pursuing hypersonic capabilities," he said then.
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ICBMs and their sea-launched alternatives, SLBMs, already travel at hypersonic speeds.
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MAGAZINE An article on June 23 about hypersonic missiles misattributed a quotation.
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Several months later, he and Griffin created a new Space Development Agency of some 225 people, tasked with putting a network of sensors in low-earth orbit that would track incoming hypersonic missiles and direct American hypersonic attacks.
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China, Russia and the United States have focused research and development on two classes of these weapons: hypersonic glide vehicles and cruise missiles that fly at hypersonic speeds, according to U.S. and other Western weapons analysts and military officials.
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Arms-control advocates agree that hypersonic weapons and cyber capabilities pose new threats.
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The Chinese military in 2014 said it had conducted a hypersonic test flight.
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Correction: The Pentagon in March selected Raytheon for a hypersonic weapons development contract.
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In addition, the capabilities and potential uses of hypersonic gliders are still unclear.
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The squad's motto is "Go Mach 10," or hypersonic speed of 7,672 mph.
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Meanwhile, Russia is expected to test their hypersonic glide vehicle again this summer.
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In contrast, "nuclear-armed hypersonic gliders don't require the same precision," she said.
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The development comes as potential adversaries make their move in the hypersonic field.
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Meanwhile, Russia is expected to test its hypersonic glide vehicle again this summer.
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Militaries around the world have been racing for years to develop hypersonic weapons.
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A hypersonic weapon is a missile that travels at Mach 523 or higher.
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Because they move so quickly, hypersonic missiles can stay relatively low, avoiding detection.
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American, Chinese, and Russian air forces currently are all conducting hypersonic drone tests.
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"The hypersonic threat is real, it is not imagination," Air Force Lt. Gen.
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Russia deployed its first hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles at the end of December.
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This means that a hypersonic weapon can travel about one mile per second.
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Morgan Stanley forecast $20.25 billion in annual sales for hypersonic travel by 22023.
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A hypersonic weapon can travel further, faster, for longer and is highly maneuverable.
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Hypersonic weapons are an emerging threat, but what kind of threat remains unclear.
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Another super-weapon revealed by Putin is a hypersonic maneuverable warhead called Avangard.
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This means that a hypersonic threat can travel about one mile per second.
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DL-993 This is an example of a hypersonic glide vehicle, or HGV.
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AIR FORCE, DARPA PLAN NEW HYPERSONIC VEHICLE The Starry Sky 2, a waverider, is a hypersonic flight vehicle that uses shockwaves generated by its own flight in the air to glide at a high speed, and features a wedge-shaped fuselage.
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Hypersonic flight equates to going Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound.
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The launch of China's first hypersonic weapon aboard a rocket on August 3, 220.
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Today's Falcon 9 was a new one sporting larger, upgraded titanium hypersonic grid fins.
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The US Air Force will be flying operational prototypes of hypersonic weapons by 212.
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The US Air Force will be flying operational prototypes of hypersonic weapons by 22020.
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Then, in fall 2017, DARPA asked the Trump administration for additional hypersonic-specific funding.
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Starry Sky-2, a hypersonic flight vehicle, was tested in Northwest China on Friday.
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France, India, Australia and Japan are all working on hypersonic technologies of their own.
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Hypersonic missiles built in large numbers could pose a serious challenge to missile defences.
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Hypersonic speed is more than about 3,800 mph — five times the speed of sound.
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It is not as if the Department of Defense (DOD) had no hypersonic programs.
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Last March, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled several hypersonic weapons, as well as Burevestnik.
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The US focus has largely been to work on hypersonic technologies across the board.
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Whitesides expects propulsion will take the longest time to develop for a hypersonic aircraft.
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Hypersonic weapons, at long last, appear poised to fulfill the promise of air power.
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Russia tested its Kinzhal hypersonic missile in the Black Sea near Crimea on Thursday.
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Whitesides expects the two teams will be able to further dig into hypersonic technologies.
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Russia's and China's hypersonic nuclear missiles require our testing nuclear warheads for missile defense.
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In 2019, the Pentagon awarded two multibillion dollar hypersonic weapons contracts to Lockheed Martin.
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The company is exploring the possibilities of commercial supersonic and hypersonic planes, Muilenburg said.
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At the theater level, hypersonic weapons could mean qualitatively new complications in security planning.
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Starry Sky-2, which took three years to develop, is now China's first hypersonic aircraft.
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The US Air Force is hoping to deploy a fully functional hypersonic weapon by 2023.
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Russia's defense ministry did not respond to questions from Reuters about its hypersonic weapons capabilities.
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Reports in the official state-controlled media said the new missile was a hypersonic weapon.
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In March, the Pentagon selected Raytheon for a $63 million contract for hypersonic weapons development.
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Air entering a hypersonic jet engine would be travelling at more than 1.7km per second.
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The lure of hypersonic flight is such, though, that many are trying to do so.
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Hypersonic refers to speeds well above the speed of sound, generally Mach 5 and higher.
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Lockheed Martin and other aerospace companies are developing a number of supersonic and hypersonic programs.
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The hypersonic glide vehicle, dubbed Avangard, is designed to sit atop an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Yesterday, Vladimir Putin presented his country with a belated Christmas present: the Avangard hypersonic missile.
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Cold War recidivists aren't the only ones hoping hypersonic technology will deliver a futuristic throwback.
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Beijing has also experimented with at least two hypersonic vehicles similar to DARPA's space plane.
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Is the United States now catching up with China and Russia in developing hypersonic weapons?
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That same day, a senior Pentagon official told media that U.S. hypersonic research was underfunded.
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The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency puts a fine point on the value of hypersonic capabilities.
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As the DOD's comptroller earlier this century, I supported and approved funding for hypersonic research.
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China, Russia, and the United States are, of course, leading the hypersonic race to hell.
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Today, the Army, Navy, and Air Force are moving ahead with major hypersonic weapons programs.
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Hypersonic missiles are a "nightmare" weapon to which the US is especially vulnerable, Maine Sen.
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Thus, Russia is currently working on over 85033 nuclear programs, including nuclear-capable hypersonic weapons.
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Hypersonic glide vehicles can steer an unpredictable course and maneuver sharply as they approach impact.
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A third hypersonic test vehicle was deliberately destroyed when its boosting missile failed in 2014.
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But the hypersonic vehicle crashed during both of its test flights in 2010 and 503.
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There will also be an opportunity in the defense against hypersonic systems, according to Seifman.
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Earlier this week, Putin emphasized that Russia is the only country armed with hypersonic weapons.
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It is true that the United States has no ability to defend against hypersonic weapons.
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If these hypersonic weapons, however, are armed with conventional munitions, things get very complicated indeed.
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This is probably the chief reason Russia and China are so interested in hypersonic weapons.
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In June, the company released images of a hypersonic vehicle concept that would carry passengers.
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In 2012, China began using the world's biggest wind tunnel to test hypersonic vehicle designs.
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"Our HyperDrone technology can be used to test new air-breathing hypersonic engines for NASA or aircraft companies that want to build the next gen super- and hypersonic aircraft to go point-to-point around the world in an hour or two," the team explained.
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Neil Thurgood, the director of the Army's new Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) charged with the development of a hypersonic glide vehicle for ground-launched hypersonic weapons, said in May that his office is in a "full-out sprint" to develop this technology.
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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed Friday that the Avangard, the country's new intercontinental hypersonic weapon, became operational and entered combat duty, per the AP. Why it matters: Russian President Vladimir Putin has emphasized that Russia is the only country armed with hypersonic weapons.
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Lockheed remains the world's top weapons manufacturer, selling combat ships, hypersonic missiles, fighter jets and more.
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Correction: This article has been amended to remove a comparison between supersonic and hypersonic flight times.
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Meanwhile, the Pentagon awarded two multimillion-dollar hypersonic weapon contracts to Lockheed Martin earlier this year.
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Russia, China, and India are all trying to develop hypersonic weapons, according to The National Interest.
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Last year, the U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin Corporation two contracts to develop hypersonic missiles.
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During nearly 200 flights, the X-15 program gathered valuable data about high-altitude hypersonic flight.
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That 211 target is ambitious, and quite simply because going hypersonic is not easy at all.
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That 2020 target is ambitious, and quite simply because going hypersonic is not easy at all.
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Related: China Has a New Hypersonic Glider That Could Deliver Nukes — But Can They Steer It?
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Hypersonic boost-glide missiles, which skip off the atmosphere at great speed, might fit the bill.
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According to figures provided by DARPA, funding for hypersonic initiatives in 2017 stood at $85.8 million.
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"The technology could also enable hypersonic passenger flights, and even easier access to space," she said.
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Hypersonic cruise missiles and HGVs are novel because they fuse these qualities of speed and agility.
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America's top nuclear commander described a grim scenario for U.S. forces facing off against hypersonic weapons.
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In 2015, the US Air Force announced their goal to develop a hypersonic weapon by 2023.
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The Russians, meanwhile, are expected to field the Zircon hypersonic missile as early as next year.
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Russia has made headlines showing off hypersonic missiles, nuclear powered torpedos, and nuclear powered cruise missiles.
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S. competitors are making enormous investments in hypersonic delivery vehicles, artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies.
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Hypersonic is generally defined as a speed of Mach 5 or over 3,806 miles per hour.
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Hypersonic munitions that travel five times the speed of sound are on the drawing boards, too.
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Known as the DF-17, the medium-range rocket is the latest in Chinese hypersonic technology.
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For now, the US has no defense against a hypersonic attack, if one were to come.
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Walker's comments come after Putin earlier in the morning bragged about his country having hypersonic weapons.
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Questions also remain over several of Russia's high-profile next-generation missile systems, including hypersonic weapons.
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"Proliferation could cross multiple borders if hypersonic technology is offered on world markets," the report stated.
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The Russians have released few concrete details about the weapon, but from the information available, it appears the weapon is a so-called hypersonic glide vehicle, said Thomas Juliano, an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in hypersonic flight.
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"China and the US have started a hypersonic race," said Wu Dafang, professor at the school of aeronautic science and engineering at Beihang University in Beijing who received a national technology award for the invention of a new heat shield used on hypersonic vehicles in 2013.
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For their part, the Russians claim to be ahead of China and the United States in developing offensive hypersonic systems, which include the RS-28503 Sarmat, equipped with hypersonic multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles (MIRVs), the Kinzal air-launched ballistic missile, and the Zircon anti-ship missile.
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From combat ships to hypersonic missiles to fighter jets, Lockheed Martin remains the world's top weapons manufacturer.
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During the test, the hypersonic vehicle made "large-angle turning manoeuvres" and other movements, the CAAA said.
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But both are investing in technologies, from hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, that could threaten America's dominance.
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A little more than a year ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin touted his nation's growing hypersonic arsenal.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin first announced the hypersonic weapon , code-named Avangard, in a speech in March.
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He alluded to multiple hypersonic weapons systems that he claimed were in trial deployment or final testing.
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And if halting hypersonic one-upmanship between the US and Russia is a goal, prospects seem bleak.
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"A hypersonic plane can take a 10 hour flight and reduce it to 90 minutes," Palihapitiya said.
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But, if successful, a hypersonic spaceplane would unlock a market many times more lucrative than space tourism.
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Russia claims to have a hypersonic glider on the cusp of deployment; others are redoubling their efforts.
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Hypersonic cruise missiles are essentially faster versions of existing ones but powered by very different jet engines.
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America, which set aside $2.6bn for hypersonic weapons in the Pentagon's 2020 budget, is probably farthest ahead.
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So far, the Pentagon has awarded two multimillion-dollar hypersonic weapons contracts to Lockheed Martin last year.
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Russia, meanwhile, is working on equipping its fifth-generation stealth fighter force with nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles.
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ORE KOREN Minneapolis We all enjoy speculations of hypersonic flight and time machines ("Hot stuff", August 12th).
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The ground tests will significantly reduce the risk of failure when test flights of hypersonic aircraft start.
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This June, the service disclosed that the B-52 had carried a hypersonic missile on flight tests.
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The hypersonic weapons threat is especially worrisome because of its technological superiority over any existing counter measures.
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Hypersonic missiles have been a favorite topic of defense officials and legislators in recent years, but Sen.
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X-15 testing undoubtedly raised important ethical concerns about the relationship between humans and their hypersonic creations.
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Putin during the address discussed other weapons Moscow has created, including the Avangard, an intercontinental hypersonic missile.
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The Department of Defense called the test of the hypersonic glide body late on Thursday a success.
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The animation segment shows the hypersonic glide vehicle separating from the rocket that launches it into space.
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When a projectile reaches a speed faster than Mach 5, it's said to travel at hypersonic speed.
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Dagger: A plane-launched hypersonic glide missile designed to evade missile defense with advanced speed and maneuverability.
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The B-52 could then launch a barrage of missiles – perhaps hypersonic ones – to destroy the targets.
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He noted that Virgin Galactic's spacecraft have human pilots, similar to what a hypersonic airliner likely will.
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Whitesides was then asked to explain how Virgin Galactic's hypersonic aircraft would be different than the Concorde.
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The United States has been developing its own hypersonic program, under the project name Prompt Global Strike.
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He also said Russia had developed an "invincible" missile that can deliver a warhead at hypersonic speed.
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Moscow has accelerated its development of hypersonic weapons, threats the U.S. is currently unable to defend against.
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The Kremlin's hypersonic glide vehicle, dubbed Avangard, is designed to sit atop of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Beijing's investments have yielded fifth-generation fighter jets and hypersonic missiles capable of sinking U.S. aircraft carriers.
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Under the agreement, Raytheon and Northrop said they will continue to collaborate on air-breathing hypersonic missiles.
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Most were Australia-bound and studied topics such as hypersonic missiles and navigation technology, according to the study.
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The U.S. is working on hypersonic missile technology but has said it fears falling behind Russia and China.
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But some engineers are trying to develop new hypersonic vehicles that can glide a nuke to its location.
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Examples are hypersonic missiles, which combine velocity—travelling at five times the speed of sound—with pinpoint accuracy.
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Engineers working on a propulsion system to enable hypersonic air travel say they have passed a development milestone.
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Next went Rhaegal, felled just last week by Euron Greyjoy and two well-placed, apparently hypersonic mega-spears.
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It is flight-testing its own hypersonic weapon, but an experiment in 2014 ended in a spectacular fireball.
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That means technology Russia is working on, including hypersonic missiles and submarine drones, won't be covered, Hyten said.
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New capabilities, like China's DF-17 hypersonic glider-equipped missile, seen paraded on October 1, also concern Japan.
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In reality, the costs of operating a hypersonic commercial airplane means it may never get off the ground.
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Pushing the concept of hypersonics even further, Russia has also been working on the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle.
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Angus King, I-Maine, warned that hypersonic missiles were a "nightmare weapon" that threatened to make carriers obsolete.
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Hypersonic vehicles are not simply high-speed -- they travel at least at five times the speed of sound.
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Hypersonic missiles are a new breed of weapon capable of flying at several times the speed of sound.
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Russia is building hypersonic missiles it claims can nuke cities faster than anything the world has seen before.
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Adams lost control of the plane, which spun at hypersonic speeds as it plunged to the ground below.
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In fact, these countries have already developed hypersonic missiles that can travel more than 3,000 miles per hour.
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Hypersonic missiles are also ideal for waging a decapitation strike — assassinating a country's top military or political officials.
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The report also, for the first time publicly, said Russia was developing a hypersonic, nuclear-powered undersea torpedo.
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Chinese researchers published designs for a hypersonic plane that would travel at five times the speed of sound.
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Russia is leading the way with Avangard hypersonic boost glide vehicles allegedly capable of flying at Mach 2628.
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Russia has openly stated it is developing high-speed air-launched missiles as well as underwater hypersonic drones.
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Earlier this month Russia showed video of what the Kremlin said was an air-launched hypersonic ballistic missile.
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Other military technologies also concern the Bulletin scientists, including artificial-intelligence systems, experiments with pathogens, and hypersonic weapons.
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The Air Force is developing lasers and super-fast hypersonic munitions to work with today's guns and missiles.
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Robert Carver, a Pentagon spokesman, said hypersonic weapons "remain a technical research and engineering priority" for the Pentagon.
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Hypersonic is a speed at Mach 5 and higher, or more than five times the speed of sound.
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The latest revelations of Moscow's development of hypersonic weapons has sparked new fears over a budding arms race.
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Meanwhile, Moscow has accelerated its development of hypersonic weapons, threats the U.S. is currently unable to defend against.
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Hypersonic weapons travel more than five times the speed of sound and can evade traditional missile defense systems.
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Suspended programs include hypersonic strike weapons, missile defense programs, and new fighters, ships, and vehicles across the services.
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The weapons included a nuclear-powered cruise missile, a nuclear-powered underwater drone and a new hypersonic missile.
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The weapons include a nuclear-powered cruise missile, a nuclear-powered underwater drone and a new hypersonic missile.
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In 2013, the aircraft reached Mach 5 for 210 seconds, the longest duration of hypersonic flight to date.
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Like the "invincible" hypersonic missile that Putin claims can evade all defenses, it's a solution searching for a problem: Russian ICBM warheads, like all ICBM warheads, already land at hypersonic speed, and there are no functioning missile defenses in the United States that have any real chance of stopping them.
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Imagine a crisis in the South China Sea in which the United States and China both have functional hypersonic weapons: China sees them as a means of blocking advancing American forces; the United States, as a means to destroy the very hypersonic arms China could use to achieve that objective.
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The videos from the Kremlin's Ministry of Defense that went live Thursday appear to show a hypersonic air-to-ground missile, a new intercontinental ballistic missile, a nuclear-powered missile with unlimited range, and a hypersonic missile that can carry a nuclear warhead, as well as a few other systems.
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Hypersonic aircraft can penetrate missile defense systems, such as radar, owing to their high speeds and low incoming angles.
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Last April, Lockheed Martin secured a $928 million contract to build an undefined number of hypersonic conventional strike weapons.
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In 2014, the defense firm was awarded $892,292 by NASA to study the development of the hypersonic spy plane.
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The Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicles, the hypersonic work that you are doing, these are things that make me feel comfortable.
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Advances in hypersonic weapons, moving at more than five times the speed of sound, will shorten response times further.
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A hypersonic weapon can travel at least five times the speed of sound, or about one mile per second.
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Building a vehicle that can tolerate hypersonic speeds and the temperatures they generate is no easy feat, Juliano said.
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Hypersonic technology isn't just one thing, but a whole host of things, like aerodynamics, propulsion, cooling, and so on.
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Boeing unveiled a rendering for a hypersonic passenger plane in June, which is the next speed class above supersonic.
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At that speed, hypersonic flights between London and Australia could be over in just four-and-a-half hours.
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Orbital Atk Inc: * DARPA SELECTS ORBITAL ATK FOR HYPERSONIC ENGINE RESEARCH PROJECT Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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The administration is also developing a hypersonic warhead that would zoom ahead of Beijing's rush to perfect its own.
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"We expect to leverage their revolutionary technology to support Boeing's pursuit of hypersonic flight," Nordlund said in a statement.
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The hypersonic munitions fly too low for ballistic missile defenses and too fast for traditional surface-to-air missiles.
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In 1998, nasa was contemplating a manned hypersonic-research jet, and Stucky was asked to consult with outside experts.
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The hypersonic weapon is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, is designed to sit atop an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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By contrast, hypersonic cruise missiles (HCMs) resemble pilotless aircraft, propelled from start to finish by an on-board engine.
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Walker's comments come after Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier in the morning bragged about his country having hypersonic weapons.
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America's top nuclear commander told lawmakers in March that U.S. forces are unable to shield against a hypersonic weapon.
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Such blinding speeds would enable a hypersonic cruise missile to evade interceptor rockets, which fly at relatively slow speeds.
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The Obama administration's inaction helped open the door to the 21st-century hypersonic contest America finds itself in today.
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It's dominating in the fields of 5G and artificial intelligence (AI), and advancing in the development of hypersonic weapons.
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The new American defense budget devotes significant funds to developing both new weapons and new defenses against hypersonic weapons.
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"The hypersonic missile confirmed its technical operational performance and timing data of the Kinzhal missile system," the statement said.
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In March, the Russian leader touted his nation's hypersonic weapons as "invincible" during a state of the nation address.
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The Pentagon's second hypersonic contract comes as Russia and China sprint to add these emerging weapons to their arsenals.
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In April, Lockheed Martin secured a $928 million contract to build an undefined number of hypersonic conventional strike weapons.
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Paul Selva explained Friday how emerging Russian and Chinese hypersonic threats could significantly challenge U.S. forces in that domain.
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Kratos and Aerojet Rocketdyne are two more propulsion developers that may compete for hypersonic deals, according to J.P. Morgan.
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The United States and other countries also have worked on designing hypersonic weapons, but they haven't entered service yet.
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Hypersonic air-launched strikes on launch pads could reduce the ability to reload and launch another salvo of missiles.
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According to the longtime Russian leader, Russia was the only country in the world with an operational hypersonic weapon.
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The X-15 took NASA from supersonic to hypersonic, setting unofficial records for speed (Mach 6.7) and altitude 43,200 feet.
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Hypersonic flight is generally taken to mean traveling through the atmosphere at more than five times the speed of sound.
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WASHINGTON — Russia conducted another successful test of a hypersonic weapon system capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the Kremlin announced Wednesday.
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At a parade in May last year, the Russian military displayed what it had earlier said was a hypersonic missile.
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And, the U.S. navy said it conducted a successful test of a long-range hypersonic missile on October 30, 2017.
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Last year, China announced the first successful testing of a hypersonic aircraft, a feat the U.S. has yet to accomplish.
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The U.S. tested its own version, dubbed Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, in 2010 and 2011, but both flights were failures.
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America, China and Russia are all working hard to develop hypersonic missiles and laser weapons, which may transform maritime warfare.
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Hypersonic speeds begin at, roughly, Mach 212.5 — one mile per second or five times faster than the speed of sound.
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Hypersonic speeds begin at, roughly, Mach 5 — one mile per second or five times faster than the speed of sound.
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The craft uses sounding rocket to get it off the ground, but then employs a scramjet to reach hypersonic speeds.
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The potential advantages are clear: hypersonic missiles would allow a nation to strike an adversary in a matter of minutes.
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First, that Russia has apparently moved forward with a hypersonic missile that's less accurate than what the US is developing.
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WASHINGTON — Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan on Wednesday downplayed concerns about Russian and Chinese efforts to develop hypersonic arsenals.
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Hypersonic flight is generally taken to mean travelling through the atmosphere at more than five times the speed of sound.
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The air-to-ground hypersonic missile dubbed "Kinzhal," which means "dagger" in Russian, has been tested at least three times.
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"A hypersonic vehicle could be a deep penetrator and could provide that unknown time when it would penetrate," Carpenter said.
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Imagine a hypersonic passenger aircraft that would cut the journey time between London and New York to around two hours.
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It would also enable essential investments in important technologies such as autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, directed energy, and hypersonic missiles.
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Putin says Russia's new hypersonic missile system is "invulnerable" to US defenses and will be put into service next year.
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Another weapon that came into focus after Putin's March 2018 announcement was the nuclear-capable Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched missile.
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Beijing celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party's founding with stealth drones and hypersonic missiles across Tiananmen Square.
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Russia's hypersonic program has had its failures — so has ours — but there's no doubting Moscow's seriousness about pursuing such weaponry.
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Boeing unveiled a rendering of its first-ever design for a hypersonic passenger plane at an aerospace conference in Atlanta.
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The hypersonic passenger plane could, in theory, fly as fast as Mach 5, or just under 3,900 miles per hour.
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Lockheed Martin recently broke ground on its new two-building Advanced Hypersonic Manufacturing facility in Courtland, on the city's outskirts.
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Hypothetically, a B-52 loaded with multiple hypersonic weapons can evolve from its standard function into a "missileer," Roper said.
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Furthermore, surface warfare tactics are getting more advanced with the advent of hypersonic missiles, directed energy weapons, and unmanned vehicles.
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These X-vehicles, mainly airplanes and missiles, were experimental technologies designed in hopes of achieving record altitudes and hypersonic speeds.
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About that same time, the most recent nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia deliberately excluded any constraints on hypersonic weapons.
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Fundamentally, the much higher velocity means a hypersonic aircraft would greatly reduce total travel times compared to supersonic, Whitesides replied.
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While the US is also researching hypersonic weapons, for now, it's a race to see who will be successful first.
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The cyberattack can be detected only upon occurrence, and the hypersonic missile, only seconds or at best minutes before attack.
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The Russian weapon — known as a hypersonic glide vehicle — can fly lower in the atmosphere, avoiding ballistic missile defense radars.
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Russia&aposs deadly Zircon hypersonic missile is apparently suffering from unspecified "childhood diseases," the Russian Navy&aposs top admiral revealed.
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Morgan Stanley forecast $800 billion in annual sales for hypersonic travel by 2040, or just about two decades from now.
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The new video released by the Russian MoD shows just that: a Tupolev Tu-22 bomber carrying the hypersonic missile.
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In order to maintain sustained hypersonic flight, a vehicle must also endure the extreme temperatures of flying at such speeds.
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The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $928 million contract in April for an undefined number of hypersonic strike weapons.
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J.P. Morgan highlighted Lockheed Martin, as it has won two multimillion-dollar Air Force contracts to design hypersonic weapon prototypes.
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December 2019 - Putin boasts of his country's lead in hypersonic weapons and says other countries are trying to catch up.
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Russia reported on Friday that an intercontinental hypersonic weapon that it has been working on for years is now operational.
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In July 2017, the US Air Force formally asked the defense industry to propose designs for a new hypersonic missile.
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To an outside observer, some hypersonic weapons are nearly indistinguishable from nuclear-tipped rockets during their initial phases of flight.
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"It will boost the engineering application of hypersonic technology, mostly in military sectors, by duplicating the environment of extreme hypersonic flights, so problems can be discovered and solved on the ground," said Zhao, a deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of High Temperature Gas Dynamics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
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Meanwhile, in August, China announced the first successful testing of a hypersonic aircraft, a feat the U.S. has yet to accomplish.
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While it's been a huge pain to do hypersonic stuff, it's also been something that aircraft designers have wanted pretty bad.
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This means that, as of now, the U.S. has to rely on deterrence against these so-called hypersonic weapons, he said.
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To make a Mars mission a reality, we will lean on four main capabilities: Controlled hypersonic flight of slender-body vehicles.
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They're dangerous, ineffective, and their killing our "selfish" dreams of being able to fly in the hypersonic jets of the future!
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Despite the skepticism of supersonic and hypersonic planes being commercially viable, there is a resurgence in interest in ultra-fast airliners.
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"[Hypersonic weapons] is a developing field, so there is not much that I can state here officially," said Canadian Lt. Gen.
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Hyten's comments came after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his country possessed a new hypersonic missile in a March 1 speech.
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China is building the world's fastest wind tunnel to simulate hypersonic flight at speeds of up to 29 kilometres per second.
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Hypersonic aircraft are defined as vehicles that travel of speeds of Mach 20123, five times the speed of sound, or above.
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"Fortunately, no state currently has a vested interest in offering hypersonic missiles for sale," said Richard Speier at the Rand Corp.
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He also said Russia and China were developing weapons, such as hypersonic missiles, to launch attacks from space here on Earth.
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The Air Force awarded Boeing and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne a contract to develop the hypersonic X-51A WaveRider scramjet in 2004.
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Just this year, Russia claimed to have successfully tested its first hypersonic missiles, and released videos of the weapons in July.
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DARPA's budget for fiscal 85033 requests $256.7 million for hypersonic missile development, compared with $108.6 million it requested in fiscal 2018.
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Russia's ongoing development of hypersonic weapons proves nuclear weapons are in fact warfighting weapons — contrary to conventional wisdom in the West.
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Unlike ballistic missiles, which follow a fixed and therefore predictable trajectory, hypersonic missiles can maneuver, making them difficult to defend against.
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In order to reach hypersonic speeds, the X-15 was designed with a rocket engine fueled by ammonia and liquid oxygen.
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Hypersonic systems have been identified by Pentagon officials as a top priority for investment, with the various services looking at options.
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The United States, Russia, China, and India are all reportedly developing hypersonic weapons that can travel at or above Mach 5.
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A 2012 test was terminated when the skin peeled off a hypersonic prototype, and another self-destructed when it lost control.
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Both of those nations have been working on hypersonic missiles, for example, which fly at five times the speed of sound.
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WASHINGTON — In March 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin touted his nation's budding arsenal by unveiling a slew of new hypersonic weapons.
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According to Putin, the "invincible missile" that he mentioned renders air defenses useless with its (purported) unlimited range at hypersonic speed.
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Nacouzi said that hypersonic glide vehicles are placed on top of rockets, launched, and then glide on top of the atmosphere.
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It includes everything from developing long-range hypersonic missiles to ramping up basic training to improving the nutritional quality of MREs.
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In March, Putin debuted new nuclear and hypersonic weapons, which he described as "invincible" during a state of the nation address.
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Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed Putin that the first missile unit equipped with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle entered combat duty.
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Another angle: Russia said on Friday that it had deployed a hypersonic weapon capable of easily evading American missile defense systems.
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The X-15 was the first plane to demonstrate hypersonic flight—over Mach 5—and set a manned speed record in 1967.
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This year, Lockheed Martin snatched both of the Pentagon's new hypersonic weapon contracts and continued delivery of its F-35 fighter jet.
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The heart of HyperSciences' work is its hypersonic propulsion system that can fire a projectile at five times the speed of sound.
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Based on a video shown during Putin's speech, Podvig said, "it appears that they've demonstrated the capability" to develop a hypersonic missile.
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And I imagine that if the US wanted to deploy a nuclear-armed hypersonic glider, they could do so without much difficulty.
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What's more, in August, China announced its first successful testing of a hypersonic aircraft, a feat the U.S. has yet to accomplish.
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"I say hypersonic re-entry is probably my biggest concern," he said during a press conference after the capsule launched on Saturday.
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Hewson also said that hypersonic weapons contracts will account for $3.5 billion across the company once all of the deals are finalized.
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What's more, the latest revelations come a little more than a year after the Russian leader touted his nation's growing hypersonic arsenal.
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Hyten has been a vocal proponent of space-based defenses in order to protect U.S. assets in space and track hypersonic threats.
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It sees Washington's hypersonic glider as a way to attack China without crossing the nuclear threshold, complicating its assessment of nuclear retaliation.
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The test of Avangard, a hypersonic boost-glide weapon, was a "perfect New Year's gift for the country", said President Vladimir Putin.
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Hypersonic weapons are those that can travel more than five times the speed of sound, or around one mile (1.6km) per second.
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The new tunnel would also be used to test the scramjet, a new type of jet engine designed specifically for hypersonic flights.
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We are lagging behind China in cutting-edge hypersonic research while innovative U.S. commercial remote-sensing companies are tangled in regulatory limbo.
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The DF-41 is China's hypersonic intercontinental ballistic missile, which is reportedly able to strike targets as far as the United States.
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Driving it, once again, is fear among the leading powers that their rivals will gain an advantage, this time in hypersonic weapons.
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" The latest: A $1 billion contract with Lockheed Martin was announced by the Air Force, "to design and build a hypersonic vehicle.
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"As we move towards commercial services, we're thinking more about what comes next, like hypersonic and point to point spaceflight," Whitesides said.
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China, meanwhile, has flight-tested its own hypersonic missiles at speeds fast enough to reach Guam from the Chinese coastline within minutes.
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China, meanwhile, is testing a new warhead called a "hypersonic glide vehicle" that can fly fast enough to evade most missile defenses.
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The Chinese are also expected to have significantly more guided-missile destroyers, advanced undersea warfare systems and hypersonic missiles, the projection says.
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Like America, China and Russia are both developing hypersonic missiles capable of crossing oceans at over five times the speed of sound.
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Ideally, the satellites would orbit the Earth at low altitudes, monitoring and sending data for identifying hypersonic weapons from China or Russia.
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Another $224 million would go toward speeding up the development of a regional glide phase weapon system to defend against hypersonic missiles.
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At present, both powers are amid a runaway, costly arms race involving nuclear, hypersonic, and space weapons, which neither one can win.
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Both of these could be used to spot faraway targets for hypersonic and other missiles, point out Mr Bondaz and Mr Delory.
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This means that, as of now, the U.S. has to rely on deterrence against these so-called hypersonic weapons, he said. Sen.
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The Pentagon awarded Lockheed Martin a $928 million U.S. Air Force contract in April for an undefined number of hypersonic strike weapons.
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Putin has described the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle as a technological breakthrough comparable to the 1957 Soviet launch of the first satellite.
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China has tested its own hypersonic glide vehicle, believed to be capable of traveling at least five times the speed of sound.
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US officials have talked about putting a layer of sensors in space to more quickly detect enemy missiles, particularly the hypersonic weapons.
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That means one Borei II submarine could potentially launch 200 hypersonic weapons, a threat the U.S. is currently unable to defend against.
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A hypersonic weapon can travel at Mach 5 or higher, which is at least five times faster than the speed of sound.
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At the moment, the U.S. must rely on deterrence against hypersonic weapons, according to the top nuclear commander in the American military.
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Several weapons makers are competing against the Raytheon and Northrop team to develop the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC program.
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The hypersonic aircraft would launch vertically, deploy a second stage to carry a satellite into orbit, and then land like a normal airplane.
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" During a state of the nation address in March, Putin boasted about an arsenal of hypersonic nuclear weapons that he described as "invincible.
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Last month, the Pentagon awarded missile-maker Raytheon Company a $63.3 million contract for hypersonic weapons development, the company said in a statement.
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The last time we checked in, the hypersonic drilling company had raised about $5 million as part of an untraditional Reg A offering.
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"Reg A lets everyone who cares about our planned hypersonic future vote with their checkbook," HyperSciences founder and CEO Mark Russell told TechCrunch.
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China has a lead in hypersonic glide weapons, travelling at a mile a second, against which aircraft carriers currently have no reliable defences.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force successfully flight-tested a hypersonic weapon from a B-52 Stratofortress bomber, defense giant Lockheed Martin announced Monday.
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Moscow's hypersonic glide vehicle, dubbed Avangard, has been in development for three decades and is designed to sit atop an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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During a speech to lawmakers, Russian President Vladimir Putin showed images of a hypersonic weapon dubbed Avangard that can apparently reach Mach 20.
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The people, who spoke to CNBC on the condition of anonymity, said Russia successfully tested the air-to-ground hypersonic missile three times.
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In fact, Admiral Harry Harris, who heads the U.S. Pacific Command, said in February that the country was "falling behind" China's hypersonic development.
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A hypersonic vehicle flying at this speed from China could reach the west coast of the United States in less than 220 minutes.
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"Hypersonic flight is, and in the foreseeable future will be, the driver of national security, and civilian transportation and space access," he added.
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The demonstration showed a notional hypersonic missile mock-up attached to a Conventional Rotary Launcher; the same CRL used on the B-52H.
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Nordic military intelligence indicates Russia is moving forward with plans to arm its Yasen-class submarines with scramjet-powered, hypersonic Zircon cruise missiles.
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The industrial base and academy will need to make serious investments in rocketry, materials science, and plasma-penetrating radio waveforms for hypersonic munitions.
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Although the foundation for today's hypersonic weaponry was laid decades ago, the pace of progress has been slow because of daunting technical challenges.
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In recent years, though, countries have stepped up their games hoping to deploy hypersonic armaments rapidly, something Russia has already begun to do.
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And yet it's not just the speed and flight trajectory of hypersonic weapons that will make them so hard to track and intercept.
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The Trump administration's plans for a new Space Force that will put sensors and interceptors into space cite the threat of hypersonic missiles.
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Its hypersonic cruise missile, the Tsirkon, designed to be launched from a ship or submarine, has also been tested several times since 2015.
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How willing is Boeing to potentially spend billions of dollars over the next 20 to 30 years to build a hypersonic passenger plane?
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Karako explained that missile threats posed to the U.S. include everything from rocket artillery to cruise missiles to ballistic missiles to hypersonic weapons.
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The country is also developing sophisticated ballistic missile warheads and hypersonic glide vehicles that could counter the ballistic missile defense system, per Ashley.
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Around $90 million of the requested missile development funds of $160 million will go on studying hypersonic missiles to quickly penetrate enemy defences.
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"Today we validated our design and are now ready to move to the next phase towards fielding a hypersonic strike capability," Vice Adm.
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He cobbled together a working proof of concept, essentially a motorized sling that could spin a bullet-sized projectile up to hypersonic speeds.
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Hypersonic missiles, flying five or six times the speed of sound, are designed to fly farther and strike harder than today's slower rockets.
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The threats of cyberattack and hypersonic missiles are two examples of easily foreseeable challenges to our national security posed by rapidly developing technology.
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Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg has repeated his call that hypersonic jets flying at almost 4,000 mph can be the future of aviation.
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Since then, he has kept going, launching a test of the new hypersonic missile Kinzhal (dagger) alluded to in his March 1 speech.
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He said China also is pursuing advances in cyber, artificial intelligence, engineering and technology, counter-space, anti-satellite capabilities and hypersonic glide weapons.
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Northrop's scramjet engine technology uses the vehicle's high speed to forcibly compress incoming air before combustion to enable sustained flight at hypersonic speeds.
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Programs like the US Department of Defense's Prompt Global Strike effort, the Air Force's Advanced Rapid Response Weapon and Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon HCSW—known as Arrow and Hacksaw for short—and Russian and Chinese efforts to develop strategic and tactical hypersonic weapons are intended to create arms that can't be countered by current defenses and hit targets with great precision.
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Image: CAAAChina claims to have successfully tested a hypersonic aircraft capable of reaching speeds in excess of Mach 213, or 2200,221 miles per hour.
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Russia conducted a successful test of the hypersonic weapon called "Avangard" and has plans of including it in Russia's arsenal by 2020, CNBC reports.
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India's arsenal includes the hypersonic Brahmos III, the world's fastest cruise missile, which can precisely deliver a 300kg payload to any target in Pakistan.
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Warnings of a Russian hypersonic weapon that the U.S. can&apost defend against may have had you running for the bomb shelter last week.
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In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin debuted new nuclear and hypersonic weapons, which he described as "invincible" during a state of the nation address.
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The company revealed renderings of its proposed hypersonic, passenger-carrying airliner Tuesday at the annual American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics conference in Atlanta.
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The funding comes as Russia and China sprint to develop hypersonic weapons, a new breed of weapons that the U.S. currently cannot defend against.
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Future conflict between two nuclear superpowers with extensive naval and air capabilities, hypersonic carrier-killer and satellite-killer missiles is likely to escalate rapidly.
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A yearlong CR would also undermine and delay plans related to the precision strike missile, land-based hypersonic missile, and strategic long range cannon.
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And new weapons are on the way, including hypersonic weapons designed to evade US defenses and hit their targets with little or no warning.
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The Russian military machine has already debuted a so-called hypersonic missile, which President Vladimir Putin said last month would be deployed in months.
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Lockheed Martin secured a $20303 million contract to build an undefined number of hypersonic conventional strike weapons, the Pentagon said Wednesday in a statement.
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Recent comments by U.S. defense officials have stoked worries that the world's largest economy is losing the hypersonic arms race to Russia and China.
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Washington is believed to be lagging in the space because Beijing and Moscow conduct successful tests of hypersonic technology at a more frequent pace.
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Moscow currently is unwilling to renew and expand the 2011 New START agreement, due to expire in 2021, to include its new hypersonic weapons.
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Some wonks say, in effect, Relax, hi-tech defenses against hypersonic weapons will be built, so crises like these won't spin out of control.
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Hypersonic missiles fly into space after launch, but then come down and fly at high speeds on a flight path similar to an airplane.
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Boeing, the world's largest aircraft manufacturer, is conceptualizing a hypersonic passenger plane that could take travelers from New York to London in 120 minutes.
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"Waverider" is a type of hypersonic aircraft that uses its own shock waves as a lifting surface, thereby improving its lift-to-drag ratio.
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The acquisition chief said the service has been working with the Air Force Global Strike Command on hypersonic weapons tests on the B-52.
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By 2024, Moscow expects its submarine fleet to be able to launch hypersonic missiles that are capable of carrying either conventional or nuclear warheads.
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The Navy and Army jointly executed the launch which "flew at hypersonic speed to a designated impact point," the Pentagon said in the statement.
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"Today we validated our design and are now ready to move to the next phase towards fielding a hypersonic strike capability," said Vice Adm.
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By definition, hypersonic vehicles travel at speeds of one to five miles per second — or up to dozens of times faster than modern airliners.
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Although hypersonic missiles can in theory carry nuclear warheads, those being developed by the United States will only be equipped with small conventional explosives.
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A total lunar eclipse is always something to marvel at, but one being gate-crashed by a hypersonic cometary shard is something else entirely.
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Jonas said at the summit that some of the feedback he got from investors questioned the parallels between the space tourism and hypersonic businesses.
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"The stock price is just moving at a hypersonic pace," Mark Tepper, president of Strategic Wealth Partners, said on CNBC's "Trading Nation" on Tuesday.
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Hypersonic weapons fly extremely fast and can maneuver along unpredictable trajectories, making them incredibly difficult for current systems to track, much less shoot down.
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Yet while the United States military was once thought to be well ahead in hypersonic technology, the pace of development flagged in recent years.
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Other parts of the Pentagon, including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, have other hypersonic initiatives, but they are many years down the road.
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China provided a tantalising look at the DF-17, a wedge-shaped hypersonic glider that would be launched and released from a traditional missile.
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Days after Christmas, Russia deployed its hypersonic glide missiles—a new kind of reentry vehicle meant to deliver nuclear warheads past missile defense systems.
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China provided a tantalising look at the DF-17, a missile that could release a wedge-shaped hypersonic glider known as the DF-ZF.
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Beijing may also show off new weapons based on technology still under development in the United States, like its Dong Feng 17 hypersonic missile.
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The firm believes the majority of Galactic's upside will come from its hypersonic point-to-point air travel rather than its space tourism business.
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The U.S. also has repeatedly warned Congress about hypersonic missiles being developed by Russia and China that will be harder to track and defeat.
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U.S. officials have talked about putting a layer of sensors in space to more quickly detect enemy missiles, particularly the more advanced hypersonic threats.
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The proposal is in its early stages, and while it wouldn't necessarily stop hypersonic glide weapons cold, it's by far the least crappy option.
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The Russian military said it had deployed a hypersonic weapon that could fly at superfast speeds and could easily evade American missile defense systems.
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The Pentagon plans to spend billions of dollars on developing hypersonic weapons in the coming years as Russia and China work on similar capabilities.
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Perhaps more significantly, the panels noted China claims it has made rapid progress in developing laser, hypersonic and electromagnetic pulse weapons programs and unmanned systems.
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Putin also has promoted Russia&aposs development of a nuclear-armed hypersonic vehicle that he said is more advanced than anything in the U.S. arsenal.
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Putin, who was speaking at a forum in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, added that Moscow's hypersonic weapons program was ahead of its competitors.
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The latest revelations come less than eight months after Putin touted his nation's growing hypersonic arsenal as "invincible" during a state of the nation address.
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The Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept builds on DARPA's previous X-51 "WaveRider," an experimental unmanned aircraft that reached Mach 5 (3,806 mph) in 2013.
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As it stands, the U.S. currently does not have a defense against hypersonic arms, a breed of weapon that both Russia and China are developing.
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He did so in a manner keeping with the spirit of ancient geologic times: by shooting projectiles at hypersonic speeds out of a giant cannon.
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"The body of the hypersonic glide vehicle cannot withstand the heat on re-entry, and therefore the internal systems fail," this person explained to CNBC.
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Researchers "still don't completely understand the physics of hypersonic flight", wrote Ivett Leyva of America's Air Force Office of Scientific Research in a 215 paper.
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The funding requests come as Russia and China sprint to develop hypersonic weapons, a new breed of weapons that the U.S. currently cannot defend against.
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" Putin claimed the hypersonic glide vehicle, dubbed Avangard, was capable of reaching targets at 20 times the speed of sound and strikes "like a fireball.
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The aircraft, which is referred to as a "world-first Space Bridge", would use a new hypersonic engine to propel the plane at great speeds.
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In an article published in the domestic journal National Science Review last month, Jiang said the impact of hypersonic flights on society could be "revolutionary".
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Once dropped from the wing of the "mother ship" the X-15 launched its XLR-99 rocket engine to propel the craft at hypersonic speeds.
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The US is currently working to develop a ground-launched hypersonic missile, but it is not expected to be able to field them until 2023.
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Hypersonic weapons close in on their targets at a minimum speed of Mach 5, five times the speed of sound or 3,836.4 miles an hour.
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American anxiety The US has been experimenting with unmanned hypersonic aircraft for years, and successfully tested the Boeing X-51 Waverider between 2010 and 2013.
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Speaking at a forum, Work pointed to Beijing's rising defense spending, which has led to significant progress in electronic warfare, big data, and hypersonic guns.
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Hypersonic speed that makes it impossible for air defenses to intercept, on-board lasers to fry incoming missiles —really neat and probably enormously expensive stuff.
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Last August, a contractor for the Chinese space program claimed that it successfully flight-tested a gliding hypersonic missile for slightly more than six minutes.
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Hypersonic missile threat The U.S. missile defense system operates on the assumption that the incoming threat is a ballistic missile traveling on a predictable trajectory.
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Mr. Putin said earlier this week that Russia was ahead on hypersonic technology, reveling in a rare moment of superiority to American and Chinese technology.
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Russia says it successfully tested a so-called hypersonic missile this month, while China tested a similar system last year expected to enter service soon.
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A hypersonic air-to-surface missile is one of the weapons likely to be ready for combat as early as 2020, as CNBC previously reported.
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In May, CNBC learned the hypersonic glide vehicle, which is designed to sit atop an intercontinental ballistic missile, will be ready for war by 2020.
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While investing in costly conventional assets to increase its military edge, such as a new hypersonic weapon, Russia has also mobilized aggressive assets in cyberspace.
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Speed is the new stealth and earlier this week America's top nuclear commander described a grim scenario for U.S. forces facing off against hypersonic weapons.
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A hypersonic weapon is a missile that travels at Mach 5 or higher, which is at least five times faster than the speed of sound.
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The award, which is "not-to-exceed" $480 million, comes four months after the Bethesda, Maryland-based defense giant won its first hypersonic weapons contract.
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Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted about nuclear and hypersonic weapons, which he described as "invincible" during a state of the nation address.
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While the hypersonic SR-72 isn't expected to be operational until 2030, the company sees developing a platform of this magnitude as a game changer.
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The US Air Force tested a hypersonic sled at speeds of 6,599 mph, but even in slow motion you can't catch a glimpse of it!
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Muilenburg said Boeing had already proved that much of the technology for hypersonic flight is feasible, but that cost would likely prove a greater obstacle.
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The more countries and armed groups that possess hypersonic weapons, the greater the risk of one of the super-fast munitions triggering a nuclear war.
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It showed a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet taking off from an airfield carrying the new Kinjal hypersonic missile and then launching it while airborne.
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For instance, the Air Force test-launched its ARRW from a B-52 bomber as part of its Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW) this June; the Navy tested an HGV in 2017 to further its Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) initiative; and the Army tested its own version of such a weapon in 2011 and 2014 to move its Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW) program forward.
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U.S. officials, including Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin, believe a space-based sensor layer could help detect missiles moving at hypersonic speeds.
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The hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), dubbed Starry Sky-2245 (or Star-22010), was launched on Friday, August 513rd from a site in northwest China, CNN reports.
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Esper was also asked about a rocket test accident in Russia this month which U.S. officials believe was associated with the Kremlin's hypersonic cruise missile program.
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Newer threats include the Chinese government's 2007 launch of a satellite-destroying missile and the development of hypersonic missiles that can evade U.S. missile defense capabilities.
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That will include research into hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence and big data, fifth-generation communications technologies, nuclear enterprise modernization, space, missile defense and response force readiness.
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Hypersonic aircraft might come in "20 to 30 years" but another innovation in the sky may fly sooner — and it will be available to the public.
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In August, the Pentagon awarded Lockheed Martin its second multimillion-dollar contract to develop the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, hypersonic missile.
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The company is also working on other key projects for the U.S. military, including the development and production of hypersonic propulsion and solar electric propulsion systems.
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While the US Navy announced a successful test of a prototype hypersonic missile in November, the fielding of such an American weapon is considered years away.
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Russia has confirmed it is building a new hypersonic missile that can be launched from ships or submarines and travel at almost 2 miles per second.
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The first public outing of the Kinjal (Dagger) hypersonic missile, carried by advanced MiG-31K interceptor jets, was one of several world premieres for Russian weapons.
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However, in May, CNBC learned the hypersonic glide vehicle, which is designed to sit atop an intercontinental ballistic missile, will be ready for war by 2020.
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Of those weapons, CNBC learned that two of them, a hypersonic glide vehicle and an air-launched cruise missile, will be ready for war by 2020.
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Last December, the Washington Post reported that moving from rocket-boosted weapons to hypersonic weapons is the "first, second, and third" priority for defense right now.
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Perhaps the real story behind your article may be the carbon-carbon composite that you referred to as a solution to the challenge of hypersonic flight.
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Speed is undoubtedly the new stealth and the Pentagon's top weapons supplier just got one step closer to handing hypersonic weapons to the U.S. Air Force.
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And while the hypersonic SR-72 isn't expected to be operational until 2030, the company sees developing a platform of that magnitude as a game changer.
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Multiple Navy pilots said they spotted "strange objects" with "no visible engine" reaching 30,85033 feet and going hypersonic speeds, The New York Times reported last month.
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Improving accuracy and hypersonic warheads makes possible a surprise surgical first strike against U.S. nuclear forces that greatly reduces or virtually eliminates mass destruction of civilians.
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Wu has worked on the development of hypersonic cruise missiles, a near space vehicle, high-speed drones and other possible weapons for the People's Liberation Army.
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Also spotted in the rehearsal photos was China's hypersonic DF-17 missile, which can deliver a manoeuvrable re-entry vehicle capable of shifting targets in flight.
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"Hypersonic weapons use advances in electronic capacity, sensor quality, and miniaturization to create a new threat," said Trey Obering, former head of the Missile Defense Agency.
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Weapons are categorized as hypersonic when they can reach a speed of at least Mach 5, but versions that travel much faster are in the works.
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DOD has been developing hypersonic systems for the better part of the past two decades, and thus far has virtually nothing to show for its efforts.
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Boeing's venture arm HorizonX last month invested $20 million into Virgin Galactic to explore developing a vehicle capable of flying around the world at hypersonic speeds.
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The head of the Missile Defense Agency says it is only a matter of time before hypersonic weapons are added to the arsenals of America's adversaries.
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Greaves comments come amid that assess Russia will be capable of fielding a hypersonic glide vehicle, a weapon that no country can defend against, by 2020.
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The intelligence reports, which were compiled this spring, found that Russia successfully tested a hypersonic glide vehicle, which could carry a nuclear warhead, twice in 2016.
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The Army intends to field a ground-launched hypersonic weapon in 2023, with the Navy fielding a ship-launched variant the same year, Defense News reports.
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President Vladimir Putin has likewise claimed that one of Russia's new hypersonic missiles will travel at Mach 10, while the other will travel at Mach 20.
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Last March, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a slew of hypersonic weapons, as well as Burevestnik, saying it was a nuclear-powered missile with unlimited range.
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MAGAZINE An article on June 2698 about hypersonic missiles misstated the size of the United States military's principal land-based site for open-air prototype flights.
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Riding high on the X-51's successful test, Air Force leadership promptly announced a plan to design combat-ready hypersonic missiles for use after 2025.
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Several states are pursuing hypersonic weapons — able to travel over five times the speed of sound — some of which could be maneuverable to avoid missile defenses.
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He also pointed out that a capital raise would help its development of hypersonic long-distance travel capabilities, which Jonas estimated is about a decade away.
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Putin said Russia has new drones and nuclear weapons systems with unlimited range that could render NATO defenses "useless" and deliver a warhead at hypersonic speed.
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Senior American military officials said the United States plans to deploy its own hypersonic weapons by 2022, but some experts believe that schedule may prove optimistic.
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Whitesides and Schettler emphasized the investment from Boeing will allow the companies to explore developing a vehicle capable of flying around the world at hypersonic speeds.
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Speier, who worked to initiate the Pentagon's Office of Counter-Proliferation Policy, added that France, India, and Australia are also developing military uses of hypersonic technology.
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Earlier this month, during a two-hour state-of-the-nation speech, Putin announced a slew of new nuclear weapons as well as a hypersonic missile.
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And while the hypersonic SR-72 isn't expected to be operational until 2030, the company sees developing a platform of that magnitude as a game-changer.
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Selva, vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, noted that an endgame defense for defeating a hypersonic weapon would be difficult without space-based assets.
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In short, a hypersonic weapon can travel further, faster, for longer and can maneuver itself which makes it all the more difficult to track and target.
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Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin's boasted about new nuclear and hypersonic weapons, which he described as "invincible" during a state of the nation address.
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Griffin's comments came on the heels of Chinese reports announcing the first successful testing of a hypersonic aircraft, a feat the U.S. has yet to accomplish.
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Putin has boasted about the Avangard&aposs ability to evade missile defenses, and the US and China are working on their own hypersonic weapons as well.
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If the concern is that America's near-peers have developed a hypersonic capability to deliver nuclear weapons, then this isn't all that new of a problem.
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Russia's Tass News agency quoted a defense ministry official recently as saying the country hopes to have hypersonic weapons in its arsenal as early as 2020.
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The missile is equipped with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, which was first introduced by Putin in his state-of-the-nation address in March 85033.
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"Hypersonic missiles ... are a new class of threat because they are capable both of maneuvering and of flying faster than 5,000 kilometers per hour," RAND cautioned.
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Russia was sufficiently alarmed by advances in US hypersonic weaponry that, in 2015, it reorganized much of its military specifically to counter future Mach-5 missiles.
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Among the military hardware was the hypersonic missile "Kinzhal," a weapon that Putin described in March as "invincible" and capable of overcoming any missile defense system.
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Hypersonic weapons travel in the upper atmosphere at speeds of more than five times the speed of sound or about 6,200 kilometers (3,853 miles) per hour.
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In fact, the development of hypersonic vehicles in India, China, Russia and the U.S. have led many to believe that a global arms race has already begun.
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This year, Lockheed Martin snatched both of the Pentagon's new hypersonic weapon contracts and continued delivery of its F-35 fighter jet, America's most expensive weapons system.
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China is also making rapid strides in developing so-called hypersonic missiles, which can manoeuvre sharply and travel at five times the speed of sound, or faster.
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According to American experts, once the hypersonic glide vehicle is launched it's unable to survive the tremendous heat it must endure for re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
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The people, who spoke to CNBC on the condition of anonymity, said Russia has carried out five total tests of its ship-based hypersonic missile since 4203.
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" The revelations about the ship-based missile come a little more than nine months after Russian President Vladimir Putin touted his nation's growing hypersonic arsenal as "invincible.
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When President Vladimir Putin boasted in March about Russia's deadly new weapons, he showed a video of the hypersonic Kinzhal missile knocking out a cluster of ships.
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They were lost to a hypersonic version of a familiar pattern: A shooting brings shock and sadness, then anger, then calls to action, followed inevitably by silence.
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At best, the chances of a tiny team working in the metaphorical equivalent of a garden shed cracking the problem of air-breathing hypersonic flight are slim.
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The Kremlin is having a hard time finding a source for the critical carbon fiber components needed to produce the weapon, a hypersonic glide vehicle dubbed Avangard.
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With hypersonic technology in hand, one could build a system that could, in theory, deliver a conventional strike to any place on the planet within an hour.
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NASA has also tested out inflatable heat shields with programs like the Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator, or HIAD, and the Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment, or IRVE.
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Besides the three superpowers, France and India are among the nations in pursuit of the complicated and challenging technologies needed to field a battle-capable hypersonic missile.
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Worst of all, "megafires" that cover hundreds of thousands of acres, move at hypersonic speeds, and swallow entire cities whole are now cropping up with alarming regularity.
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A hypersonic weapon travels at Mach 5 or higher, which is at least five times faster than the speed of sound or about one mile per second.
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The US is developing similar weapons, including hypersonic weapons able to travel nine times the speed of sound and largely impervious to any existing missile defense systems.
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His radio show Hypersonic is a great entry into the Austin scene, and he can be found DJing at rooftop lounge Ethics at least once a week.
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What's more, the Pentagon will invest an additional $13.6 billion in missile defense capabilities, of which $174 million will finance missile warning systems to address hypersonic threats.
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ZHUHAI, China (Reuters) - China is leading the U.S. in a race to deploy hypersonic missiles that would defeat existing air defense systems, according to senior U.S. officials.
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What's more, in another U.S. intelligence report, according to a source, the hypersonic missile was mounted and launched 12 times from a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet.
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Russia and China are developing advanced cruise missiles and hypersonic missile capabilities that can travel at exceptional speeds with unpredictable flight paths that challenge existing defensive systems.
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Russia produced its own version of a stealth fighter, launched development of a radar-evading bomber similar to the B-2 and poured money into hypersonic craft.
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When the Russians needed something that could try to chase down the vaunted SR-71 Blackbird, they called up the MiG-21 and its Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.
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Because what good is more accessible supersonic or hypersonic commercial travel if we can't get across town and out to the airport in less than 5 hours?
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Passengers could fly from London to Sydney in just under four hours by the 2030s, thanks to a new hypersonic engine, according to the UK Space Agency.
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And Air Force General John Hyten — America's top nuclear commander — said the U.S. lacked "any defense that could deny the employment" of a hypersonic weapon against it.
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"What the U.S. is pursuing is much more difficult," she said, explaining that nonnuclear hypersonic missiles aim to hit smaller, more precise targets so accuracy is essential.
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Ultra-fast hypersonic weapons have rocketed to among the chief concerns for U.S. military planners as Moscow and Beijing eye the means to combat U.S. missile defenses.
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As for rising threats to the carrier, King believes hypersonic missiles are an existential threat to the Navy and urged Gilday to take the issue head on.
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Each has its own list of dire scenarios against which hypersonic weapons will supposedly protect them and military missions for which they see such armaments as ideal.
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A passenger jet flying at hypersonic speeds could revolutionize air travel by cutting down a transatlantic flight from New York to London from seven hours to two.
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The Air Force in June flew its first test flight of the AGM-183A Air Launched Rapid Response Weapon, a hypersonic weapon known as ARRW (pronounced "Arrow").
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Russia is developing a mobile anti-ballistic missile system, called Nudol, which it claims can operate against hypersonic targets, and the S-22019 anti-ballistic missile system.
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The Pentagon's high-tech office will more aggressively pursue so-called hypersonic missiles as Russia and China make advances in that area, the office's director said Thursday.
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Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,2000 feet and hypersonic speeds.
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There are currently no international agreements on how or when hypersonic missiles can be used, nor are there any plans between any countries to start those discussions.
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In the United States, the State Department's arms-control bureau has an office devoted to emerging security challenges, but hypersonic missiles aren't one of its core concerns.
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Countryman wants to see limitations placed on the number of hypersonic missiles that a country can build or on the type of warheads that they can carry.
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What's more, China announced in 2018 that it had conducted the first successful testing of a hypersonic aircraft, a feat the United States has yet to accomplish.
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But as it gets closer to the target, it is designed to fly at hypersonic speeds in an unpredictable path — making detection, tracking and interception extremely difficult.
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The units would potentially be equipped with long range precision weapons, hypersonic missiles, precision strike missiles, electronic warfare and cyber capabilities, McCarthy said, without citing any locations.
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In December 22019, Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu declared a new hypersonic weapon, which is said to be capable of striking the United States, ready for war.
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The minister said in a conference call with Russian military leaders that the first missile unit equipped with the "Avangard" hypersonic glide vehicle had entered combat duty.
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According to Virgin Galactic, while a business jet from Los Angeles to Tokyo would take 11 hours, a hypersonic jet would make the trip in two hours.
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What's more, unlike a traditional missile, which carries one warhead, the Bulava missile is capable of carrying up to 10 nuclear and hypersonic weapons on its tip.
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Morgan Stanley forecast $800 billion in annual sales by 2040 for hypersonic travel, which means traveling in aircraft at more than five times the speed of sound.
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Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, an intercontinental weapon that can fly 27 times the speed of sound, became operational Friday, Russia&aposs defense minister told President Vladimir Putin.
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The legislation also adds $140 million to the Missile Defense Agency for development of critical directed energy and space sensing projects as well as hypersonic defense capabilities.
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What's more, unlike a traditional missile which carries one warhead, the Bulava missile is capable of carrying up to 003 nuclear and hypersonic weapons on its tip.
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China's military has shown off a new hypersonic ballistic nuclear missile believed capable of breaching all existing anti-missile shields deployed by the U.S. and its allies.
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Simulating the movement of a flock of birds, Sosolimited's new larg-scale computational kinetic sculpture, Diffusion Choir, was designed and fabricated in collaboration with Hypersonic and Plebian Design.
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China is also making rapid strides in developing so-called hypersonic missiles, which can maneuver sharply and travel at five times the speed of sound (or even faster).
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China, in turn, has also alarmed the Pentagon with advances in super-fast "hypersonic" technology, which could allow Beijing to field missiles that are far harder to detect.
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The latest development means the U.S. will have to make up even more ground as Russia and China bolster their arsenals with hypersonic weapons at a breakneck pace.
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It's a technology that's intended to help the US follow the paths of new hypersonic vehicles that are being developed to transport nukes from one place to another.
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Turning to Russia, Griffin noted that Moscow's intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, pose a greater threat to the U.S. than the hypersonic weapons that Putin purports to have.
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In October, CNBC learned that the Kremlin was looking for another carbon fiber source since their current supply was unable to withstand the extreme temperatures of hypersonic flight.
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Mostly overlooked, however, have been its provocative statements about an entirely new class of weaponry that nuclear nations are racing to build: highly precise, long-range, hypersonic missiles.
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Last spring, Walker said, DARPA lobbied then-United States deputy secretary of defense Robert O. Work to help fund a national initiative to increase funding for hypersonic capabilities.
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This asymmetric shape may cause the Crew Dragon to roll during hypersonic re-entry — when the vehicle is going faster than the speed of sound through Earth's atmosphere.
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Douglas Barrie, an expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think-tank, forecasts that hypersonic gliders are likely to start entering service in the early 2020s.
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Putin has previously described Russia's hypersonic prowess as "invincible" and accused "those who have fueled the arms race over the last 15 years" of failing to contain Russia.
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The Missile Defense Review describes creating capabilities to stop an array of long-range missiles, including those that are hypersonic, or travel faster than the speed of sound.
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Last week, CNBC reported that nearly 20 of these Russian missiles were recently moved to a military testing site, signaling another milestone for the Kremlin's hypersonic weapons program.
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On Thursday, CNBC reported that nearly 20 of these Russian missiles were recently moved to a military testing site, signaling another milestone for the Kremlin's hypersonic weapons program.
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Mark Gubrud, a nuclear weapons expert at the University of North Carolina, has lobbied for the negotiation of a global flight ban on the testing of hypersonic arms.
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However, should Washington take such a step, he has said he would be forced to deploy Russian hypersonic nuclear missiles on ships or submarines near U.S. territorial waters.
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Other countries are also joining the competition — New Delhi and Moscow have jointly developed a hypersonic cruise missile called BrahMos and intend to sell it to other nations.
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The hypersonic strike weapon will be developed in the northern Alabama city of Huntsville, which is dubbed "Rocket City" as it was the birthplace of America's rocket program.
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In terms of hypersonic technology, which "does seem pretty game-changing," China is ahead of the US, said Kliman, who stressed that it's important not to be alarmist.
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Thurgood's announcement followed a decision in March by the secretary and chief of staff of the Army to accelerate the delivery of a prototype ground-launched hypersonic weapon.
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China, Russia, and the US are are starting to invest heavily in producing hypersonic weapons — projectiles that zoom to their targets at Mach 5 and evade air defenses.
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The Center for Public Integrity's R. Jeffrey Smith reports that Congress passed a bill last year requiring the United States to have operational hypersonic weapons by late 2022.
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The Hindu newspaper reports that the incident occurred around 2:20 pm at the Indian Institute of Science's (IISc) Laboratory for Hypersonic and Shock Wave Research in Bengaluru.
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The main reason to fit hypersonic rockets to fighter jets is "to say you can," James Acton, a physicist with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told me.
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The famed SR-71 represents the fastest piloted jet flight since Knight's famous hypersonic flight half a century ago, though it never even reached 3,000 miles per hour.
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Russia's military has been developing new submarines as part of a broader push for new defense hardware under Putin that has also included hypersonic missiles and naval drones.
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These programs were just the beginning of what the acting defense secretary, Patrick M. Shanahan, described in December as the Trump administration's goal of "industrializing" hypersonic missile production.
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The budget also proposes $3.2 billion for hypersonic weapons, a 23 percent increase in research and development meant to compete with a growing number of similar Russian weapons.
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Congress has only rarely approved arms control treaties — and with the Senate in Republican hands, it seems scarcely likely that an agreement limiting hypersonic weapons would find favor.
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In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia was deploying its first hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles, which he boasted were capable of evading US air defense systems.
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And Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director Steven Walker touted his $256.7 million fiscal 2019 budget for hypersonic missile development the same day as Putin's press conference.
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But Virgin Galactic needs to develop the technology in a reasonable amount of time, according to Credit Suisse, as other companies are working on supersonic or hypersonic vehicles.
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Hypersonic reconnaissance vehicles could provide major advantages to the side that masters them and cause major headaches for the side that can't spot them or shoot them down.
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Adding to the uncertainty, Mr. Putin has warned that Russia is developing new "invincible" hypersonic missiles that will travel at more than five times the speed of sound.
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U.S. defense officials have become particularly alarmed about China's advances in super-fast "hypersonic" technology, which could allow it to field missiles that are far harder to detect.
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It'll use regular old electricity, rather than rocket fuel, to power the catapult and shoot a payload to hypersonic speeds — that is, five times the speed of sound.
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Washington has to (a) restore its defense parity with China and Russia with antidotes to their hypersonic weaponry and (b) stop the senseless arms race with new arms agreements.
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"It's a great, fantastic thought," says John Olds, a former aerospace engineering professor who founded and now runs Spaceworks, a company that develops hypersonic flight and space exploration technology.
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"We're excited about the potential of hypersonic technology to connect the world faster than ever before," Kevin Bowcutt, chief scientist of hypersonics at Boeing, said in a news release.
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Yet, James Acton, co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, countered notions that Russian and Chinese developments would eclipse U.S. hypersonic efforts.
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Several months ago, Russia said it tested its first hypersonic missile, releasing some videos in July to make the world, especially the United States, aware of its newfound capability.
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Other examples highlighting the need for defense and security include Russia announcing it will deploy a hypersonic missile system and a massive data breach at Marriott's Starwood Hotels database.
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ZHUHAI, China, April 25 (Reuters) - China is leading the U.S. in a race to deploy hypersonic missiles that would defeat existing air defense systems, according to senior U.S. officials.
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At its most simplistic, HyperSciences' hypersonic engine can fire upward to power suborbital space launches (HyperDrone) and point downward to penetrate deep pockets of geothermal energy, for example (HyperDrill).
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Other physics facilities have obvious military applications, too, such as wind tunnels designed for research into forms of hypersonic flight that are really relevant only to the armed forces.
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Russian efforts to develop hypersonic glide vehicles are explicitly aimed at evading U.S. missile defense systems, said Pavel Podvig, an independent analyst who specializes in Russia&aposs nuclear arsenal.
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According to Russian media, the missile's first stage engine PDU-99 was tested in August, while a hypersonic warhead for the upcoming missile was reportedly tested back in April.
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Germany convened an arms-control conference in Berlin on March 15th to kick-start a discussion on taming the risks posed by futuristic weapons, including hypersonic missiles, through diplomacy.
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Among NASA's many other objectives, Bridenstine said the space agency is also looking to develop hypersonic jets capable of exceeding the speed of sound without causing disruptive sonic booms.
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Currently, the United States does not have a defense against hypersonic weapons, which can travel at least five times the speed of sound, or about one mile per second.
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Speed gives one an advantage in battle, and Hewson said Lockheed could develop, build and demonstrate a hypersonic aircraft the size of an F-235 for under $2115 billion.
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Their idea was that in order for an engine to reach hypersonic speeds, the air going into it would have to be rapidly cooled, otherwise the engine would melt.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The United States believes last week's deadly explosion in Russia was associated with the Kremlin's hypersonic cruise missile program, a senior Trump administration official said on Tuesday.
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The Samrat intercontinental ballistic missile, the Project 4202 hypersonic glide vehicle, a long-range torpedo and the Kinzhal air-to-surface missile have all been in development for years.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he offered US President Donald Trump the chance to buy Russian hypersonic missiles, supposedly to stop a US-Russia arms race.
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In March China conducted seven successful test flights of its hypersonic glider WU-14, also known as the DF-ZF, at speeds of between Mach 5 and Mach 10.
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"Developments in hypersonic propulsion will revolutionize warfare by providing the ability to strike targets more quickly, at greater distances, and with greater firepower," the agency said in congressional testimony.
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The Chinese DF-17 is a missile equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), and it was unveiled for the first time during a military parade in Beijing Tuesday.
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But while the US is working hard to develop hypersonic weapons, the earliest expected delivery date is fiscal year 2023, likely well behind some of America's near-peer adversaries.
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Hypersonic weapons are just the most recent manifestation of the urge to engage in an "arms race," even if, as a sports metaphor, it couldn't be more off base.
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China, Russia, and the United States lead the hypersonic arms race, but others — including Britain, France, Germany, India, and Japan — have joined in (and more undoubtedly will do so).
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" Boeing isn't letting up on the race as it announced plans to invest in a British company that specializes in "advanced propulsion systems that could power a hypersonic vehicle.
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The Navy and the Army jointly conducted the launch, while the Missile Defense Agency gathered data to use in its effort to develop systems to defend against hypersonic missiles.
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WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Friday said it had tested an unarmed hypersonic weapon in Hawaii, as both China and Russia develop similar military and defense capabilities.
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" When asked how soon it could be before the Russians have an operational hypersonic weapon that could reach the US, Hyten said, "It's similar to the North Korea problem.
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For a 50-year-old F-16 to survive an aerial battle in 2036, lasers, hypersonic missiles and drone wingmen probably won't be a luxury — but an absolute necessity.
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Whitesides noted the company already has experience testing and flying lightweight structures that are both reusable and experience hypersonic-like trajectories, key to providing any long distance travel service.
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To defeat these systems, Russia has developed several types of weapons classified as "hypersonic" because they travel at speeds greater than five times the speed of sound (Mach 5).
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MOSCOW, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw military exercises near Crimea on Thursday, which included the launch of the hypersonic 'Kinzhal' missile, the TASS news agency reported.
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Reaction Engines is working on ultra light, miniature and extremely powerful heat exchangers to develop an engine that could power hypersonic planes and help to deliver satellites to space.
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Earlier this month, during a two-hour state-of-the-nation speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a slew of new nuclear weapons as well as a hypersonic missile.
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Hyten, who has previously called Russia the "most significant threat" to the U.S., recently described a grim scenario for American forces facing off against hypersonic weapons earlier this year.
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"As a result, US hypersonic weapons will likely require greater accuracy and will be more technically challenging to develop than nuclear-armed Chinese and Russian systems," the report adds.
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Now other regions and countries—RAND cited Europe, Japan, Australia, and India—have begun to tinker with key hypersonic technologies, which include special engines and exotic, heat-absorbing materials.
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The project is in early stage development now, and Cossman is working with a team led by Christopher Schulz, the chief scientist for hypersonic programs and technologies at Lockheed Martin.
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The new system, called the Avangard, utilizes an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and a hypersonic glide vehicle and is supposed to travel at roughly five times the speed of sound.
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Moscow's hypersonic glide vehicle, dubbed Avangard, has been in development for three decades and can travel at least five times the speed of sound, or about one mile per second.
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Sources familiar with U.S. intelligence reports assess that the Russian hypersonic glide vehicles are equipped with onboard countermeasures that are able to defeat even the most advanced missile-defense systems.
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Black Bolt, the leader of the Inhumans, also gets a special mention as being "the single most destructive superhero" due to the potential for his hypersonic voice to level cities.
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If a profitable space tourism business wasn't ambitious enough, Virgin Galactic also has its eye on an even bigger market: Hypersonic travel, also known as point-to-point space travel.
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The Pentagon's biggest weapons supplier snatched both of the military's new hypersonic missile contracts and continued delivery of its F-35 fighter jet, which is America's most expensive weapons system.
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The 1.75-ton prototype is not expected to survive the test flight, but is expected to gather data on autonomous navigation, hypersonic speed, and reentry management, according to the ISRO.
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Similarly, as hypersonic missiles and directed energy weapons move from science fiction to battlefield reality, NATO cannot allow itself to become vulnerable to a doctrine based on these modern weapons.
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"The Avangard is invulnerable to intercept by any existing and prospective missile defense means of the potential adversary," Putin boasted Wednesday, while adding that no other country possessed hypersonic weapons.
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"We are excited to get to work on the hypersonic conventional strike weapon program," John Snyder, Lockheed Martin vice president of Air Force Strategic Programs, said in an emailed statement.
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The military command created at the height of the Cold War to defend the United States and Canada from nuclear attacks is facing a new threat from Russia: hypersonic weapons.
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Hypersonic devices travel five times faster than the speed of sound and typically come in two forms: cruise missiles and a type of ballistic missile called a maneuverable reentry vehicle.
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The New York Times spoke with pilots who said they saw objects traveling at hypersonic speeds and that they could stop, turn, and accelerate in ways known aircraft could not.
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King, who represents the state where half the Navy's destroyers are produced, also said he's concerned about the long-term viability of aircraft carriers in a world with hypersonic missiles.
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Putin has boasted of Russian development of a hypersonic glide vehicle that can be launched into space, navigate on its own into Earth's atmosphere and avoid radar and antimissile defenses.
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China is leading the pack on hypersonic technology, as Daniel Kliman, director of the the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, previously told Insider.
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Russia claims that the ground-based missile system is capable of intercepting hypersonic missiles, drones and aircraft as well as stealth warplanes like the F-22 and the F-35.
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Moreover, it is not at all clear that the Army will meet its target, or for that matter, that the other services that are developing hypersonic systems will meet theirs.
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Some threats are long-standing, such as ballistic missiles, and others have only recently been fielded or are just on the horizon, such as stealthy cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles.
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The Army expects delayed procurement of the Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense system, as well as impediments on the development of land-based hypersonic missiles and next-generation combat vehicles.
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And partly after seeing Russia announce the construction of hypersonic cruise missiles last year, the Trump administration took the final step: It would leave the deal Moscow wouldn't stick to.
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The military's principal land-based site for open-air prototype flights — a 3,200-square-mile site stretching across multiple counties in New Mexico — isn't big enough to accommodate hypersonic weapons.
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According people present who spoke to CNBC, Whitesides spent much of his time addressing concerns about Virgin Galactic's skillset to develop hypersonic technologies – which he believes have a close connection.
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Whitesides' first reason was simply that, for at least the next few years, Virgin Galactic will be the only company flying people on a winged craft at near hypersonic velocities.
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The country recently tested a new kind of ballistic missile with a hypersonic glider — vehicles that can fly at low-altitudes and avoid detection by radars — according to The Diplomat.
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Lasers are also showing increased promise, and land developed hypersonic weapons should also be rapidly developed, as well as non-kinetic technologies designed to disrupt launch capabilities of our adversaries.
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Other US adversaries have still more advanced missiles like so-called "hypersonic glide vehicles" that take off like a normal missile and glide through the atmosphere at relatively low altitudes.
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If they so much as graze each other at that speed, they'll create a hypersonic shockwave that will completely shatter them both — and leave shrapnel behind in their orbital paths.
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Of the six new weapons Putin unveiled, CNBC learned that two of them, a hypersonic glide vehicle and an air-launched cruise missile, will be ready for war by 2020.
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The U.S. does not have a defense against hypersonic weapons, which can travel at least five times the speed of sound, or a little more than a mile per second.
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Both of these could be used to spot targets for hypersonic and other missiles, note Antoine Bondaz and Stéphane Delory of the Foundation for Strategic Research, a French think-tank.
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Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu also pledged to develop new land-based cruise and land-based hypersonic missiles in the next two years, according to Russian state media outlet TASS.
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What's more, he added that when an object flies faster than Mach 7, or hypersonic speeds, it becomes nearly impossible to track with the current technology the U.S. has deployed.
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Turning to Russia, Griffin noted that Moscow's intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, pose a greater threat to the U.S. than the hypersonic weapons Russian President Vladimir Putin purports to have.
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A Congressional Research Service report from September 22015 notes that the US trails China -- and Russia -- in hypersonic development and is not expected to have an operational weapon before 215.
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WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow will deploy hypersonic weapons in the "coming months," a significant step that would enable the Kremlin to surpass the U.S. and China.
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Kiselyov, who is close to the Kremlin, said the "Tsirkon" ('Zircon') hypersonic missile that Russia is developing could hit the targets in less than five minutes if launched from Russian submarines.
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The United States does not have a defense against hypersonic weapons, which can travel at least five times the speed of sound, or a little more than a mile per second.
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The basic deal is that hypersonic stuff is well into the range of super-duper hard even for the bright bulbs at NASA and DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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Beside its use in hypersonic aircraft, the new carbon-carbide composite may also, with appropriate adjustments to its recipe, be used to extend the lives of reusable rockets and gas turbines.
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In December, CNBC learned that a U.S. Intelligence report had highlighted testing of the Tsirkon hypersonic system, noting that five tests had been carried out by the Russian military since 2015.
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Behind him flashed video and animations of next-generation ICBMs, nuclear-powered hypersonic cruise missiles, underwater drones and other devices Russia had developed and that it now felt free to deploy.
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Huntsman said the treaty had been agreed at a time that predated cyber warfare, hypersonic missiles, underwater nuclear platforms and torpedoes and what he said was China's strategic nuclear build-up.
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Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared Wednesday at a weapons test for his country's new hypersonic missiles, where the Russian leader predicted that the weapons would be impervious to rival missile defense systems.
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The U.S. shouldn't be compared to the other two nations because it has a different goal when it comes to developing high-speed missiles known as hypersonic weapons, industry specialists argue.
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The US military tested HTV-22012, a Mach 299 unmanned aircraft in 211 but the hypersonic flight lasted only a few minutes before the vehicle crashed in to the Pacific Ocean.
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The new wind tunnel will be "one of the most powerful and advanced ground test facilities for hypersonic vehicles in the world", said Wu, who was not involved in the project.
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The craft would also make faster and faster hypersonic flights until October 3, 1967, when William J. "Pete" Knight took the craft to its maximum speed of 4,520 miles per hour.
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While the system has been very useful for Israel against more rudimentary Hamas- and Hezbollah-launched projectiles, it would be less so against weapons like hypersonic missiles, which can maneuver midflight.
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"With near-peer competitors developing their own hypersonic capabilities, the Army plans to counter them with about $1.2 billion on experimental prototyping through fiscal 2024," the Army said two months later.
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Other high-tech, non-nuclear weapons now complement the system, such as the development of hypersonic precision strike missiles, anti-satellite and anti-submarine weapons, as well as nascent cyber capabilities.
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One U.S. intelligence report, according to a source, noted that the hypersonic glide vehicles were mounted to Russian-made SS-19 intercontinental ballistic missiles — and one test featured a mock warhead.
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Sources familiar with the U.S. intelligence reports assess that the Russian hypersonic glide vehicles are equipped with onboard countermeasures that are able to defeat even the most advanced missile-defense systems.
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The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency monitored and gathered tracking data from the flight experiment, to inform its ongoing development of systems designed to defend against adversary hypersonic weapons, the statement said.
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What was strange, the pilots said, was that the video showed objects accelerating to hypersonic speed, making sudden stops and instantaneous turns — something beyond the physical limits of a human crew.
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Capable of traveling at more than 15 times the speed of sound, hypersonic missiles arrive at their targets in a blinding, destructive flash, before any sonic booms or other meaningful warning.
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In the late '80s at NASA, we had just started validating hypersonic-gas-flow codes with wind-tunnel experiments as part of an initiative to design spaceflight vehicles from computer models.
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China may be developing hypersonic missiles, but the United States has been doing so at least since 2001, when I re-entered the Department of Defense (DOD), and probably considerably earlier.
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Not long ago, we shared the news of two Romanian inventors who claim to have built a working prototype of what could be the world's first fully functional hypersonic flying saucer.
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The S-500 would be able to detect and simultaneously engage up to 10 ballistic hypersonic targets that are flying at a speed ranging from about 11,4003 mph to 16,000 mph.
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His research indicates as many as 2.7 million people might be willing to pay up to $100,000 for a long-distance hypersonic flight that shaves hours off the normal travel time.
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"With today's assets we cannot reliably see more than one hypersonic missile at a time," Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Mike Griffin told reporters at the Pentagon Wednesday.
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The DF-17′s hypersonic glide vehicle technology also permits it to fly at a much lower altitude just prior to delivering its warhead, further frustrating attempts to detect and intercept.
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This spring, he said, Russia will launch its first nuclear submarine carrying a Poseidon, an unmanned underwater nuclear drone, and will deploy a new Zircon hypersonic missile for the Russian Navy.
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He unveiled an array of new weapons last year which he billed as world-beating, including a hypersonic missile, a laser weapon, an underwater nuclear drone and a nuclear-powered cruise missile.
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The "captive carry flight test" evaluates the mock weapon during flight and is the Air Force's latest step in developing a defense amid the budding hypersonic arms race between China and Russia.
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Speaking at a meeting Friday in Sochi, Putin said delivery of the new Avangard hypersonic vehicle will begin next year while the new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile will enter duty in 2020.
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Inconveniently, that is above the melting point of most materials used by engineers, which makes it hard to design things like wings and nose cones for aircraft intended to achieve hypersonic velocities.
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They were the first phase of an extensive trial program, which will eventually see the precooler exposed to temperatures hotter than 1,000 degrees Celsius – the conditions expected during Mach 5 hypersonic flight.
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The hypersonic cruise missile dubbed "Kinzhal," which means "dagger" in Russian, has been tested at least three times and was mounted and launched 12 times from a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet.
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Showcasing his biggest and baddest military toys helps broadcast both the strength of the Russian military, while highlighting Russian weapons like hypersonic missiles, which we are not adequately prepared to defend against.
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"Today we don't have the perfect warning system to be able to detect and determine their [hypersonic weapons] intent or even how do we respond to that," retired U.S. Air Force Gen.
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Previously, CNBC reported that multiple U.S. intelligence reports assess that Russia will be capable of fielding a hypersonic glide vehicle called Avangard, a weapon that no country can defend against, by 2020.
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Russia is almost certain to introduce almost all of its new hypersonic weapons well before they will appear in the American arsenal, and before the United States has developed defenses against them.
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In doing so, it will lessen the effectiveness of America's ballistic missile defenses, which are not geared to targeting — much less shooting down — hypersonic systems, especially cruise missiles such as the Burevestnik.
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We must continue to develop and deploy technologies that will detect and defeat the rapid proliferation of drones, integrating them with capabilities to counter cruise missile, ballistic missile and hypersonic missile threats.
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The third known test of the device, called a hypersonic glide vehicle, was carried out in October 2017 and resulted in a failure when the platform crashed seconds before striking its target.
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Though Russia claims to have a hypersonic missile ready for deployment, one has never been used in combat so developing "steel" that can withstand such a weapon would seem theoretical at best.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Russian city of Kaliningrad last Thursday and told Defense Minister Sergei Shoyu that the new corvette Gremyashchi would carry the Zircon hypersonic missiles still being developed.
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Analysts say the Chinese are even further along than the Russians, partly because Beijing has sought to create hypersonic missiles with shorter ranges that don't have to endure high temperatures as long.
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The Air Force has already devoted years and hundreds of millions of dollars to developing a Hypersonic Test Vehicle, a wedge-shaped, rocket-propelled vehicle that could, in theory, reach Mach 20.
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As expected, China unveiled new unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and showcased its advancing intercontinental and hypersonic missiles, designed to attack the aircraft carriers and bases that undergird U.S. military strength in Asia.
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The company has long talked about conducting long-distance flights, and Boeing (BA) in October invested $20 million in the company in a deal focused largely on aiding development of hypersonic transit.
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That hypersonic ascent has made it a favorite among short sellers betting the shares will eventually fall back to earth, drawing comparisons to Tesla Inc, which has also surged in recent months.
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In November, before Friday's deployment of the hypersonic weapon, the Russian military exhibited it for American officials, as required under the treaty, and to show off the technology to the United States.
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The Pentagon is pouring billions of dollars into hypersonic gliders that can do just this (China is building these too, but its own gliders seem to lack the range to hit America).
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"This could forever change our ability to deter and respond to conflict, allowing warfighters to quickly address threats before an adversary may have time to react," Hewson said of the hypersonic plane.
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has got a strong edge in designing new weapons and that it has become the only country in the world to deploy hypersonic weapons.
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The Russian leader noted that Avangard is designed using new composite materials to withstand temperatures of up to 2,000 Celsius (3,632 Fahrenheit) resulting from a flight through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.
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But let's be honest with ourselves: Afghanistan is like the huge and hugely expensive aircraft carriers we continue to build, increasingly obsolete in an era of sophisticated missile technology and hypersonic warfare.
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A country on alert for an atomic sneak-attack could mistake a non-nuclear, hypersonic weapons-launch for an atomic strike—and strike back with nukes the instant it detected a launch.
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Possible options include deploying them on the soil of an ally near U.S. territory, deploying faster missiles on submarines, or using one of the hypersonic weapons Moscow says it has under development.
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China's announcement of a hypersonic vehicle comes at a time when trade tensions are high with the United States, leading some commentators to describe this latest test as a form of saber-rattling.
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A hypersonic glide vehicle is boosted aloft on a rocket to heights of between 40 km to 100 km above the earth before detaching to glide along the upper atmosphere towards its target.
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Putin said two other new systems unveiled in March — the Kinzhal hypersonic missile and the laser weapon called — have already been put on duty with the units of Russia&aposs Southern Military District.
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Waveriders are hypersonic aircraft that have wedge-shaped fuselages specially designed to generate lift by surfing on the shock wave generated as its own aircraft punches through the air at a high speed.
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"It's expected that they will make no more than 60 of these hypersonic weapons because it's just proving to be too expensive to develop," one person told CNBC on the condition of anonymity.
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An object travelling at hypersonic speeds is going so fast that it generates enough heat, shock, and pressure to alter the basic chemistry (and therefore aerodynamic properties) of the air it's plowing through.
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A potential hypersonic warhead for such a missile would not follow a parabolic arc to impact its target, but would instead flatten its trajectory after reentering Earth's atmosphere, behaving like a cruise missile.
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Russian warheads are to be pepped up, too, to be capable of gliding and evasive manoeuvres even at the hypersonic speeds at which they travel, and possibly lofted by yet another new ICBM.
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The lift-to-drag ratio of the space shuttle at hypersonic speeds is around one, notes James Acton of the Carnegie Endowment, a think-tank; an advanced glider would require over twice that.
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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said his country should develop new ground-based hypersonic and cruise missiles in a direct response to the apparent ending of a nuclear treaty between Washington and Moscow.
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Both visually and technologically, the airplane, which could be used for both military and commercial purposes, has much in common with an unmanned hypersonic surveillance and reconnaissance concept the company revealed in January.
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Other forward-looking patents filed by the French aerospace company include designs for a removable cabin module and a hypersonic jet that would fly at more than four times the speed of sound.
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America and China are developing competing hypersonic missiles that can travel at five or more times the speed of sound, able to hit any target in the world from domestic bases within hours.
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A hypersonic propulsion system can launch a projectile at at least five times the speed of sound, causing it to reach speeds of Mach 5 or higher — more than a mile a second.
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And China has been leaking through state media that it's working on things like an electromagnetic pulse cannon, hypersonic aircraft and the most modern of launching systems for its aircraft carriers, he said.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he recently offered US President Donald Trump the chance to purchase some of Russia's new weapons, including hypersonic missiles, purportedly to prevent an arms race.
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Zhao Wei, a senior scientist working on the project, said researchers aimed to have the facility up and running by around 250 to meet the pressing demand of China's hypersonic weapon development programme.
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Russian leaders have claimed they are building a new hypersonic missile that can travel at nearly nine times the speed of sound and be used to combat ships at sea or land targets.
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As long as Washington has no means of defending against strategic hypersonic systems, it will be forced to resort to mutual assured deterrence (MAD), which anti-ballistic missile defenses were meant to supersede.
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The US is not only re-evaluating its approach to missile defense, as the Pentagon's Missile Defense Review explains, but the US military is also striving to develop hypersonic systems of its own.
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Hypersonic weapons are just the most recent manifestation of the misguided urge to engage in an "arms race," writes Rajan Menon, a professor of international relations at the City College of New York.
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There are two variants of hypersonic weapons, which can both be equipped with conventional or nuclear warheads and can also demolish their targets through sheer speed and force of impact, or kinetic energy.
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Or, now that the INF Treaty has died, imagine a crisis in Europe involving the United States and Russia after both sides have deployed numerous intermediate-range hypersonic cruise missiles on the continent.
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Fundamentally, ending nuclear weapons production, reducing its nuclear arms in a verifiable manner, arresting its development of hypersonic missiles and forging binding arms control agreements would allow China to signal its benign intentions.
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General John Hyten, head of U.S. Strategic Command, has warned in an interview with CNN that China and Russia are working to produce new hypersonic weapons that the U.S. currently cannot defend against.
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"I say hypersonic re-entry is probably my biggest concern," he told reporters after the launch, referring to the capsule reaching thousands of miles per hour as it goes through the earth's atmosphere.
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One of the two main hypersonic prototypes now under development in the United States is meant to fly at speeds between Mach 15 and Mach 20, or more than 11,213 miles per hour.
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"Nobody wanted to listen to us" about the strategic dangers of abandoning the treaty, Putin said last year with an aggressive flourish as he displayed videos and animations of his nation's hypersonic missiles.
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The Russian and Chinese air forces are also developing stealth fighters, drones and hypersonic weapons – and they're doing it on budgets far smaller than the U.S. Air Force's roughly $100-billion annual allotment.
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Technologies like artificial intelligence, fast and highly maneuverable "hypersonic" weapons, as well as the increasing potential for conflict in space all add to his worries that a minor event could trigger catastrophic fallout.
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At the same time, Russia has responded to Trump's threatened withdrawal from existing arms treaties by introducing a new generation of hypersonic missiles, while the United States is only in early development stages.
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Last April, Michael Griffin, the U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that China has deployed, or is close to deploying, hypersonic systems armed with conventional warheads.
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President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would deploy its first regiment of hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles next year, saying the move meant his country now had a new type of strategic weapon.
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Autonomous systems will draw on machine deep learning to operate "at the speed of light" where humans cannot respond fast enough to events like cyber attacks, missiles flying at hypersonic speed or electronic warfare.
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Adjusting the aerofoils at hypersonic speeds is not a trivial task, because the shock wave can have complex interactions with the air flowing over the vehicle&aposs surfaces, resulting in "nonlinear" behavior, Juliano said.
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WASHINGTON — Russia will produce only a few units of a hypersonic weapon that President Vladimir Putin had bragged was already in serial production, according to people with direct knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report.
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That's exactly what the Hypersonic International Flight Research and Experimentation project has achieved with a test flight in Australia, demonstrating that scramjet technology can push the speed of a rocket up to Mach 7.5.
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Putin said Russia's arsenal of air and sea-launched missiles combined with its work on developing hypersonic missiles meant it was well placed to offset any threat emanating from the United States for now.
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RLV-TD will undergo four experimental flights, the first of which was completed on Monday: hypersonic flight experiment (HEX) followed by the landing experiment (LEX), return flight experiment (REX) and scramjet propulsion experiment (SPEX).
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In the meantime, he said's arsenal of air and sea-launched missiles combined with its work on developing hypersonic missiles meant it was well placed to offset any threat emanating from the United States.
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China unveiled its new DF-17 missile, a weapon armed with a hypersonic glide vehicle designed to penetrate enemy air defenses at speeds in excess of Mach 5, during its National Day parade Tuesday.
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For instance, the Kinzhal hypersonic missile, launched by a modified MiG-31 fighter, travels 10 times the speed of sound along a flatter trajectory than heavy ICBMs, making it potentially very difficult to intercept.
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Hypersonic weapons provide "the warfighter with an ability to strike targets hundreds and even thousands of miles away, in a matter of minutes, to defeat a wide range of high-value targets," DoD explained.
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Just last week, Mr. Putin, in an annual speech, reported that Russia was preparing to deploy a new hypersonic missile, reinforcing the sense that the long hiatus in the nuclear arms race is over.
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China showed off a new hypersonic ballistic nuclear missile, the DF-17, as it displayed its military might during a grand parade in Beijing marking the 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule, AP reports.
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The strategic framework agreement aims to combine two technologies – magnetic levitation to eliminate ground friction, and vacuum tubes to reduce air resistance – to achieve a "hypersonic" mode of transportation, Geely said in a statement.
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The People's Liberation Army (PLA) also rolled out a hypersonic missile, known as the DF-17, which theoretically can manoeuvre sharply at many times the speed of sound, making it extremely difficult to counter.
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These current programs comprise both modernization of existing capabilities and new ones such as hypersonic missiles and countervalue weapons that will target civilians rather than military targets such as the Status-6 nuclear torpedo.
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The first footage of a live launch of the Avangard hypersonic missile, which Moscow says boasts "a glider maneuvering warhead," was also aired along with a clip of the heavy Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile.
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The hypersonic plane would fly almost three times faster than the legendary Concorde — which was decommissioned in 23 — and cruise at 95,000 feet, about 3,000 feet higher than its supersonic predecessor, according to Aviation Week .
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The Kremlin, however, is having a hard time finding a source for the critical carbon fiber components needed to produce its hypersonic glide vehicle, according to people with direct knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report.
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Hypersonic aircraft can get anywhere pretty quick, and that's important if you want to react quickly to something that's happening far away from you — which is a big deal if you are the United States.
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Hypersonic air travel is also on the table for Virgin Galactic, according to Palihapitiya, although Virgin Galactic is likely a decade away from transporting people from one distant place on the Earth to the other.
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Instead, a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) detaches from the rocket while it is still ascending and either skips along the upper atmosphere or, having re-entered, glides through it for hundreds or thousands of kilometres.
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The new weapons include a hypersonic nuclear missile, a nuclear-powered underwater drone, and a cruise missile which the strongman claims has unlimited range and the capability to of pierce any U.S. missile defense system.
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Perhaps the most interesting news was about new technologies the company is investing in, especially in the area of "hypersonic" planes, which can go from six times the speed of sound to more than 235.
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Russian attempts to develop hypersonic cruise missiles raised questions about whether the so-called New Start nuclear agreement, which is due to expire in early 2021, should be extended for five years, the official added.
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The bill would also give $10.5 billion to the Missile Defense Agency, including $85033 million for the development of a space-based Missile Defense Tracking System to detect conventional ballistic missiles and hypersonic glide vehicles.
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Russia's test highlights the early stages of what could become a hypersonic arms race between America, Russia and China, as all three countries prepare for a new era of faster, smarter and more nimble missiles.
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As for Boeing's hypersonic plane, Muilenburg admited the company still has to prove there are enough people around who are willing to pay for an ultra-fast flight to the other half of the world.
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On the heels of that anniversasry, though, CNBC learned that multiple U.S. intelligence reports assess Russia will be capable of fielding a hypersonic glide vehicle, a weapon that no country can defend against, by 2020.
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Jiang Zonglin, lead developer of the JF12, won the annual Ground Test Award issued by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics last year for advancing "state-of-the-art large-scale hypersonic test facilities".
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"With practical hypersonic aeroplanes, a two-hour flight to anywhere in the world will be possible" while the cost of space travel could be cut by 99 per cent with reusable spacecraft technology, Jiang wrote.
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China's occupation of the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, their research and development of hypersonic weapons, and modernization of their military all clearly demonstrate the growing menace to America's way of life.
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Read more: The US Army says it will have hypersonic missiles and laser weapons ready for combat in less than 4 yearsDirected-energy weapons are cost-effective alternatives to traditional air-and-missile defense capabilities.
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If the company has its way, it'll get these hypersonic jets in the air in about 20 to 30 years from now — which, coincidentally, is about as long as every layover in Chicago O'Hare feels.
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"The conversation we're having now is how we take that bomb bay [and] put four, potentially eight, large hypersonic weapons on there," Ray said during the annual Air Force Association Air Space and Cyber conference.
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After securing a to build an undefined number of hypersonic conventional strike weapons, a representative noted that the company will "not be able to host any interviews on this program" due to its sensitive nature.
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The Pentagon is just now studying what a hypersonic attack might look like and imagining how a defensive system might be created; it has no architecture for it, and no firm sense of the costs.
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The CEO said there is work to be done on the structural side of a hypersonic aircraft, such as ceramic composite materials, adding that Virgin Galactic may partner with other companies in developing those structures.
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"The shares feature biotech-type risk/reward where today's space tourism business serves as a funding strategy and innovation catalyst to incubate enabling tech for the hypersonic point-to-point air travel opportunity," Jonas said.
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Boeing's venture arm HorizonX announced on Tuesday it will invest $20 million in Sir Richard Branson's space tourism company Virgin Galactic to help develop the technologies needed to make hypersonic air travel possible one day.
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Meanwhile, earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a flashy state of the nation address to tout a slate of new weapons, including a hypersonic missile he claimed was "invincible" against U.S. missile defenses.
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"One of the reasons that we haven't prioritized the hypersonic threat is we were slow to kind of appreciate not merely the Russia and China problem, but the Russia and China missile problem," Karako said.
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"A hypersonic threat is a system that starts out ballistic, so you'll see it like a ballistic missile, but then it depresses the trajectory and flies more like a cruise missile or airplane," Hyten said.
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Boeing is investing in hypersonics as well but not just in missile technology: The aerospace giant is working on a hypersonic passenger jet that could fly between Los Angeles and Tokyo in roughly three hours.
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The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which provides lawmakers with a yearly update about developments in Beijing, noted that the country has made significant advancements in hypersonic weapons, cyber abilities, and space defense.
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Putin said Russia will start work on creating new missiles, including hypersonic ones, and told ministers not to initiate disarmament talks with Washington, accusing the United States of being slow to respond to such moves.
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India "will have to think long and hard about its missile program by focusing on the urgent need to ramp up the domestic effort as well as diversify its international collaboration on hypersonic weapons," he continued.
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WASHINGTON — Russia has conducted another successful test of its ship-based hypersonic missile, a weapon the United States is currently unable to defend against, according to two people with direct knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report.
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For the last few years, the US military has been looking to make an entirely new hypersonic spaceplane — one that can be reused frequently over a short period of time to deliver multiple satellites into orbit.
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The idea is to deliver a conventional warhead with a very high degree of accuracy, at hypersonic speeds (at least five times faster than the speed of sound), through even the most densely defended air space.
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Typically, these rockets fly to space on an arcing trajectory before releasing warheads near the top of the parabola, and these warheads drop back down onto the target at hypersonic speeds under the power of gravity.
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Podvig says a properly designed system of this kind should be able to detect hypersonic weapons in flight, but it&aposs not clear this would make it any easier to intercept such fast and maneuverable vehicles.
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A similar launch took place in 2012, but that rocket only hit Mach 3—coming below the definition for hypersonic, which requires a body to travel at five times the speed of sound, at Mach 5.
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What is different about the hypersonic weapons in the pipeline is that they are designed to sustain such speeds over long distances, manoeuvre as they do so and, in some cases, hit targets with pinpoint accuracy.
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While some commercial plane makers are racing to bring back supersonic jets, Boeing has gone further than many of its competitors by unveiling a design for a hypersonic aircraft that could potentially travel five times quicker.
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At the same time, China, not to be outdone by North Korea or Russia, says it has tested its own hypersonic weapon and, like Russia, is clearly well on its way to developing space-based weapons.
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The ascendance of the hypersonic threat and its ability, if perfected, to strike with little or no warning, is sparking concern about the potential for proliferation of such systems by Russia and China to other nations.
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The combination of their hypersonic speed and lower altitude shortens the journey, while theoretically flummoxing radars and defenses designed to track and intercept ballistic missile warheads (which means another kind of arms race still to come).
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One concept now being pursued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency uses a conventional missile launched from air platforms to loft a smaller, hypersonic glider on its journey, even before the missile reaches its apex.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would deploy its first regiment of hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles next year, saying the move meant his country now had a new type of strategic weapon.
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The wisdom of putting trade in there is not obvious when you have to figure out what to do about potential adversaries with nuclear-armed submarines along America's Atlantic and Pacific shorelines, undetectable hypersonic weapons, etc.
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"The shares feature biotech-type risk/reward where today's space tourism business serves as a funding strategy and innovation catalyst to incubate enabling tech for the hypersonic P2P (point-to-point) air travel opportunity," Jonas said.
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"The conversation we&aposre having now is how we take that bomb bay [and] put four, potentially eight, large hypersonic weapons on there," Ray said during the annual Air Force Association Air Space and Cyber conference.
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The new system, called Avangard, comprises a hypersonic glide vehicle which is designed to sit atop an intercontinental ballistic missile, one of several new types of weapons touted by Putin as being ahead of their time.
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"Just the same way we are playing with wacky ideas about hypersonic missiles and RAM jets [now], back then, atomic energy was a new thing," Omar Lamrani, a military analysis at the think tank Stratfor, told VICE.
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The Creators Project had the opportunity to hop on a Skype call with Sosolimited co-founder Eric Gunther, Plebian Design founder Jeff Lieberman, and Hypersonic founder, Bill Washabaugh, about the technology, engineering, and installation of Diffusion Choir.
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One U.S. intelligence report, according to a source, noted that the hypersonic glide vehicles would join Russia's arsenal by 2020, a significant step that would enable the Kremlin to surpass the U.S. and China in this regard.
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The company planned to invest as much as $1.7 billion in 2019 to support growth in its space unit as well as several classified business lines, Tanner said, citing hypersonic weapons as a growing area of investment.
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"Key lethality and modernization investments include high-end extended range munitions and kill chains, unmanned systems, hypersonic and advanced strike missiles, directed energy, containerized weapons, information warfare, and fully networked command, control and communications," the service explained.
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As trade tensions between the U.S. and China continue to escalate, Chinese officials announced Friday the country tested its first hypersonic flight vehicle capable of carrying nuclear weapons -- and allegedly able to penetrate any missile defense system.
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Putin detailed his warning for the first time, saying Russia could deploy hypersonic missiles on ships and submarines which could lurk outside U.S. territorial waters if Washington now moved to deploy intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe.
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The U.S. intelligence report, according to a source, noted that the hypersonic missile was tested 12 times on a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet, but work is currently underway to mount the missile on a strategic bomber.
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Last month marked the 15-year anniversary of the Concorde's final flight, but right now, a handful of aerospace outfits are working to leapfrog supersonic travel and launch straight into the Mach 5 world of hypersonic propulsion.
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"We are tracking and providing advice so that we can be in a position to continue to develop our mission in the future," St-Amand said, adding that NORAD is watching and discussing the hypersonic weapons threat.
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The hypersonic vehicle therefore must be covered by special materials with extremely efficient cooling systems inside the airframe to dissipate the heat, otherwise it could easily veer off the course or disintegrate during a long-distance flight.
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The two potential programs — external carriage and long bay options — would allow the B-1B to carry weapons externally, significantly increasing its magazine capacity for munitions, as well as adding larger, heavier munitions, such as hypersonic weapons.
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"Read more: US senators reportedly got a classified briefing on UFOs after Navy pilots reported seeing spherical objects flying at 'hypersonic speed'Gradisher told Vice the Navy "considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those three videos as unidentified.
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Qian says his work will provide protection from future hypersonic weapons, missiles that can fly five to 10 times the speed of sound, and can change direction in flight to avoid missile defenses while delivering nuclear warheads.
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Around 2010, President Obama privately "made it clear that he wanted better options to hold North Korean missiles" at risk, a former senior adviser said, and some military officials said hypersonic weapons might be suitable for this.
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The coming of technologies like hypersonic propulsion, space-based weapons and quantum sensors (able to detect minute disruptions of air or water) makes it a recipe for rapid military defeat as well — at least if nothing changes.
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Jonas not only sees value in the company's core space tourism business, but he assigned a greater value to its plans for hypersonic, point-to-point travel, citing it as a potential disrupter of the airline industry.
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Where once its planners, arms manufacturers and strategic thinkers were focused on failed states, improvised explosive devices and nation-building, the Pentagon' is now much more focused on hypersonic missiles, cyber, space and potential continental-level wars.
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"A MiG-31 fighter crew of the Russian Aerospace Forces conducted a combat training launch of a hypersonic missile of the Kinzhal high-precision air missile system in the designated area," the ministry said in statement Saturday.
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The U.S. intelligence report, according to a source, noted that the hypersonic missile was tested 12 times on a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet but work is currently underway to mount the missile on a strategic bomber.
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Musk says those fins will generate lift when the rocket is traveling at hypersonic speeds (typically defined as over five times the speed of sound), which will help the rocket as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere.
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WASHINGTON — A new Russian nuclear-powered submarine fleet, capable of launching intercontinental ballistic missiles outfitted with hypersonic weapons, will be ready for war by 2024, according to a person with firsthand knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report.
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The agency's priority will be to develop a network of low earth orbit satellites to more effectively track hypersonic missiles, missiles that travel five times the speed of sound and are being developed by Russia and China.
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MOSCOW, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Russia deployed its first regiment of hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles on Friday, the Defence Ministry said, a move which President Vladimir Putin has boasted puts his country in a class of its own.
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The Army's new "Vision" for future war calls for a fast-moving emphasis on long-range precision fire to include missiles, hypersonic weapons and extended-range artillery -- to counter Russian threats on the European continent, service officials explain.
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In his State of the Nation address last March, he announced a raft of "cutting-edge, high-tech weapons," including a hypersonic missile that cannot be tracked by anti-missile systems, that could join its arsenal by 2022.
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Unlike traditional ballistic missiles, which follow a parabolic path, hypersonic missiles are launched well into space before skimming out the of the atmosphere at speeds greater than 4,000 miles per hour, gliding towards their targets with high precision.
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Hypersonic weapons can also pack a smaller warhead to achieve the same damage to a given target, simply because flying into anything at a dozen times the speed of sound is going to really, really hurt it bad.
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The Air Force is now massively speeding up development for hypersonic weapons, missile warning systems and F-35 upgrades as key parts of an emerging new strategy emphasizing risk taking, prototyping and experimentation early in the acquisition process.
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