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But the program’s managers have never even tried to hit two warheads with two interceptors, much less a dozen with a dozen, or even at one warhead that zigzags on its way to the target, as Russia’s new generation of hypersonic missiles is said to do.

The mood music among the military is that investing more in huge, astronomically expensive vessels like aircraft carriers is risky when they could be taken out by new weaponry like hypersonic missiles or drone ships.

A new nuclear-capable missile that can be launched from sea, land and air, hypersonic anti-ship missiles and laser weapons to defend against drone attacks.

There were also several hypersonic anti-ship missiles such as the YJ-17 and YJ-19, which can fly very fast and maneuver unpredictably to evade anti-missile systems.

Hypersonic missiles that travel at more than five times the speed of sound is one area where China leads the world.