Three years after the Pentagon confirmed that China had deployed its first operational hypersonic land-attack missile to its frontline forces, the US military is finally beginning to catch up with its rivals in the race to develop munitions capable of traveling five times the speed of sound, as David Axe reports.
A hypersonic showdown is looming in the Western Pacific as both China and the US rush to develop and deploy maneuverable air-, sea- and ground-launched missiles that are capable of traveling at five times the speed of sound – or faster – over distances of thousands of miles.
