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US lays out plans to speed up hypersonic weapons development
Hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted that the country possesses hypersonic intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), DARPA revealed it has plans to ramp up testing its capabilities portfolio.
During a presidential address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow on 1 March, Putin said Russia had developed a hypersonic capability ...
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