TechStartUp
POSTED ON OCTOBER 13, 2021
With conflict brewing in Taiwan, the major military powers—China, Russia, and the United States—are taking military technology to the next frontier–outer space. In a never-ending quest to find weapons that will give each country a qualitative military edge over friend and foe alike, the three superpowers, including India, are developing a new type of weapon ultra-fast “hypersonic” missiles that can hit targets anywhere on Earth within an hour.
The term hypersonic means “moving or capable of speed equal to or exceeding five times the speed of sound, usually meaning greater than Mach 5, which is about 6,174 kilometers per hour or more. This speed makes hypersonic potentially much faster than the ballistic and cruise missiles.