The U.S. Military Will Soon Have 5,000 MPH 'Bullets' (and It's All North Korea's Fault)
Peter J. Brown [2]
One of the less known ripple effects of North Korea’s latest round of saber rattling is it provides the US military with reasons to speed up development of a next-generation artillery shell that travels extreme distances at four-times the speed of sound.
Yes, they can target missiles. The two-foot long shells, known as hypervelocity projectiles [3] or HVPs, have been under operational tests since 2016 [4] and as they travel in excess of 5,000 mph, hit targets with the impact of a freight train.
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