Examples of hypersonic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The race for hypersonic technology is high stakes, and experts fear the Chinese and the Russians are making progress. — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 4 June 2021 In his speech, Putin pointed to Russia’s moves to modernize its nuclear arsenal and said the military would continue to build more state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles and other new weapons. — Fox News, 22 Apr. 2021 Lockheed Martin is working with the Air Force to develop the ARRW hypersonic weapon by Nov. 30 under a $480 million contract. — Jamie Mcintyre, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2021 One possible target for a hypersonic weapon is America’s aircraft carrier fleet. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2020 But a professor and some students at the University of Texas at San Antonio are making the forces of ultra-high speed flight less intimidating with a new hypersonic wind tunnel. — Brandon Lingle, San Antonio Express-News, 17 May 2021 That’s the sort of speed necessary to more accurately model the heat and drag on hypersonic vehicles, a field of advanced weapons research in which the Chinese military is already engaged, using its current generation of supercomputers. — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2021 These include a hypersonic cruise missile, called the Dagger, and a nuclear torpedo, called the Poseidon. — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2021 But much of the physics of hypersonic flight is still a mystery. — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2021

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