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In December, the US military announced it had successfully tested an AGM-183A ARRW hypersonic cruise missile off the coast of California. He achieved “a hypersonic speed five times the speed of sound, it followed its flight path and exploded” in the planned area.
The US is developing several supersonic weapons programs and Darpa, the US military’s science arm, tested a different type of hypersonic missile earlier this year.
Hypersonic missiles, capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to a precise target, are designed to fly at high speed and low altitude, and to change direction in flight and not follow a linear and predictable trajectory, which makes their interception.
China tested a hypersonic missile in 2021 that circled the Earth in orbit before descending on its target, which it missed by just a few miles. Russia, for its part, has said it has twice used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine and North Korea also claims to have carried out flight tests.
“Supersonic weapons, designed to evade US sensors and defense systems, pose an increasingly complex threat due to their dual capabilities (nuclear and conventional), difficult flight trajectory and maneuverability”warned the United States in a recent report.
Two hypersonic development programs are underway in France.
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