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US MILITARY TAKES STEPS TO ADAPT NEW HYPERSONIC WEAPONS TO MOBILE LAUNCHERS

  • NEWS Desk Global
  • 12 hours ago
  • 1 min read

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Defense startup Castelion said on Friday it has won contracts to integrate its Blackbeard hypersonic strike weapon with current U.S. Army systems, the first step toward allowing the military to place the powerful and nearly unstoppable weapons around the world.

The U.S. and China are engaged in an arms race to develop the most lethal hypersonic weapons, which travel in the upper atmosphere at more than five times the speed of sound and are designed to evade traditional defenses.

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