Don't believe the hype about Russia's hypersonic missile
Not about the speed, it's about how it uses that speed.
By Kelsey D. Atherton Yesterday at 10:53am
Every missile is a carefully packaged bad day traveling at high speeds. Hypersonic missiles are a modern development in the long-running military arms race to figure out just how certain that bad end is for the humans on the receiving end. Russia’s Zircon missile could enter arsenals as early as 2018. Despite headlines to the contrary, not enough about the missile is known yet to definitely claim that it poses an uncounterable threats ships in the sea.
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