8. Hypersonic Missiles
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Traveling at unimaginable speed to deliver devastating blows with little warning, missiles are scary weapons and are about to become even scarier. Thirty years ago, millions of people feared the world would be destroyed in a hail of nuclear missiles launched by Communist Russia and the United States. While that fear has mostly subsided today, missiles with conventional warheads have become much more sophisticated and deadly.
The U.S. Air Force is working to deploy intercontinental hypersonic missiles that approach their targets at speeds up to Mach 10 or 10 times the speed of sound. Combined with a shallow angle of attack, these missiles would be very difficult to intercept. A missile could be launched from the U.S. and a hit a target on the other side of the globe in a matter of minutes.
Some researchers are calling hypersonic speeds “the new stealth” as countries like Russia and China race to counter U.S. dominance in traditional stealth weapons like the B-2 bomber.
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