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Hypersonic Missiles

What Is A Hypersonic Missile?

A Hypersonic weapons are missiles and projectiles which travel at between 5 and 25 times the speed of sound What Is the Importance of Hypersonic Missiles?

Hypersonic Missiles are crucial because they fly at incredible speeds, drastically reducing or eliminating defense response times.

There are 3 main types of Hypersonic Missiles and they are:

1. boost-glide missiles which descend through the atmosphere at high speeds after an initial launch phase – a hypersonic glide vehicle

2. aircraft and missiles which use air-breathing engines such as scramjets to reach high speeds

3. guns which fire hypervelocity projectiles. These may be developments of traditional artillery or novel technologies such as railguns.