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Russia is the only country to have successfully aired them. Where other nations are supposedly developing. Russia had huge disasters in the process of testing them. But they supposedly don't have the raw materials to fully equip them across their entire military. This has led to increasing lasers being fitted on modern navy's.
North Korea with hypersonic, umm no. They haven't even got satellites. Apart from any on lease. But hypersonics. Some of the most recent technology. Who is outfitting them. Certainly it is simply a scare to South Korean landmark testing?
Wait, doesn’t “hypersonic” just mean faster than the speed of sound? They’re about 70 years behind in tech then.
Edit: ok it means at least 5x the speed of sound... ( 5 x 767mph)
I thought it was speeds of mach 9, or 10. The Russians hit around 9000mph on their launch claiming it could hit 10000 mph. The warhead also uses glide technology. Or I thought it was in the excess of mach 7. The fastest things on the planet currently. They have faster seen missile defense advancing into lasers.
Basically a cruise, but quite a bit faster, carrying a nuclear payload, and equipped fueled, fitted onto planes and ships possibly even drones.
When you are talking hypersonic, basically Moscow to London, in what, all of 10 minutes?
Here North Korea is trying to boost propaganda, suggesting it can evade Thaad and other defenses. Also trying to get one up on the South Korean landmark launch, a type of cruise being more than capable of penetrating defenses. Curiously it isn't hypersonic. Unless they have been outfitted by somebody else.