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hypersonic missile en · NOUN
Meanings
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A missile that travels at speeds greater than Mach 5 and can maneuver during atmospheric flight, making it extremely difficult to detect and intercept.
Russia used its powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile for a third time in Ukraine as part of a massive attack on Kyiv and its surrounding region that killed at least four people and injured about 100.
2026 May 24, Jennifer Rankin, “Russia hits Kyiv with hypersonic ballistic missile in ‘deranged’ attack”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 May 2026:
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hypersonic bomb · hypersonic glide vehicle