UK to boost research on hypersonic missile defence
The UK, US, and Australia will begin co-operating on research into hypersonic weapons and how to defend against them, the government has said.
It added the latest announcement was not related to Russia's use of the weapons in Ukraine but said the fact other nations were investing in them meant the UK had to think about how to defend against them.to destroy an arms depot in western Ukraine, and US military intelligence has suggested Russian forces have used them repeatedly since.
There are two types of these weapon: cruise missiles and glide vehicles. The cruise variant, of which Russia has several, can be launched from an aircraft and hit a target more than 1,200 miles away. The glide variant is launched up into space from where it then glides down to earth on an unpredictable path.
Currently China is in the forefront of hypersonic missile development, closely followed by Russia, which has already used them to hit long distance targets in Ukraine. The US is late to the game and some of its tests have not gone well.
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