President Vladimir Putin claims Russia is the only country in the world that can deploy hypersonic weapons, which places it ahead of its arch-foe, the United States, for the first time in modern history.
Hypersonic weapons travel more than five times the speed of sound, and may evade surveillanceAustralia and US researchers are helping both countries bridge the technological gap
The Russian leader noted that during Cold War times, the Soviet Union was behind the US in designing the atomic bomb and building strategic bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles . "Not a single country has hypersonic weapons, let alone hypersonic weapons of intercontinental range."a hypersonic glide vehicle — projectiles which are launched via rocket then glide to their targets — which he labelled a"great success"Anything that flies greater than the speed of sound is supersonic. Hypersonic refers to Mach 5 and above.
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