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India’s arsenal includes the hypersonic Brahmos III, the world���s fastest cruise missile, which can precisely deliver a 300kg payload to any target in Pakistan.
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Western Civilization now teeters in a toxic 24-7 hypersonic media mush chamber.
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Read More About the Options for Dealing With North Korea Among the new technologies are hypersonic glide vehicles being developed by Russia and China.
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For a hypersonic passenger jet to become a reality, some major hurdles need to be cleared.
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The biggest one is that engineers so far have failed to produce materials or devise other means to safely handle the intense heat when airliners reach such hypersonic speeds.
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A Skunk Works spokeswoman declined to comment on hypersonic projects.
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Intercepting a warhead traveling at hypersonic speed is a supreme technical challenge.
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The others were on launchpads or in the Atlantic Ocean. Steered by its hypersonic heat-resistant grid fins, the booster dropped more than 50 miles back to Earth.
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