(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 17 - The United States has carried out some tests on hypersonic missiles, launched both from airplanes and from land: the first successfully after at least three failures and which partially recover the serious delay accumulated by Washington compared to Russia and China on this new generation give me strategic.
This was announced by the Pentagon, taken up by some media, including CNN, which explains that the tests took place in recent days.
Last Tuesday the Agn-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (Arrw) was brought to its destination for the second time from an airplane in flight: it is a missile that is carried to speeds higher than Mach 5 (over five times the speed of sound) from a booster, to then release and glide at hypersonic speed on the target with a conventional or nuclear warhead and very difficult to intercept.
In addition, the Department of Defense makes it known that the test of an Operational Fires tactical hypersonic missile, created by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (Darpa, the US agency that develops advanced weapons), which is launched from trucks or other self-propelled vehicles, had the scorsomaggio happened.
Russia, which has been developing hypersonic missiles for some years, claims to have already used these weapons on the Ukrainian theater, as in the case of Kinzhal missiles which hit Ukrainian arms or ammunition depots distant from Russian borders.
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