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A '''hypersonic missile''' travels at extremely high speech, typically greater than five times the speed of sound (Mach 5), which makes them more difficult to shoot down with a missile defense system.
A '''hypersonic missile''' travels at extremely high speech, typically at Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound, 3,800 mph) or greater, which makes them more difficult to shoot down with a missile defense system.
[[China]], [[Russia]] and [[Iran]] have developed this technology. The Russian [[Kinzhal]] (''Dagger'') is the most famous combat tested hypersonic missile. In the [[United States]], former SpaceX employees founded Castelion, which is a for-[[profit]] [[private-sector]] company attempting to develop this advanced [[technology]].<ref>https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/castelion-raises-350m-series-b-to-scale-hypersonic-missile-business/</ref>
[[China]], [[Russia]] and [[Iran]] have developed this technology. The Russian [[Kinzhal]] (''Dagger'') is the most famous combat tested hypersonic missile. In the [[United States]], former SpaceX employees founded Castelion, which is a for-[[profit]] [[private-sector]] company attempting to develop this advanced [[technology]].<ref>https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/castelion-raises-350m-series-b-to-scale-hypersonic-missile-business/</ref>
==MATO war in Ukraine==
[[File:Hypersonic missile attack.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Aftermath of a Kinshal [[hypersonic missile]] attack on [[NATO]] [[mercenary]] training and command center at [[Yavoriv]], March 12, 2022]]
hortly after the commencement of Russia's [[Special Military Operation]] in 2022, [[Russian Armed Forces]] fired the first of many Hypersonic Missiles at a Concentration Center in the north west of [[Ukraine]], killing and dismembering some hundreds of Ukrainian and foreign soldiers and [[mercenaries]]. Since then, there have been many uses of the many variants of Russian Hypersonic Missiles across The Ukraine, including Deep Earth Penetrators to kill [[Ukrainian]], [[NATO]] and [[British]] officers and staff and destroy their deep underground complexes. U.S. military sources acknowledge the successful fielding of Russian Hypersonics, such performance that cannot be intercepted by U.S. Anti-Missile Systems as "eye watering."<ref>[https://les7eb.substack.com/i/166442652/hypersonic-myths-hypersonic-realities Hypersonic Myths, Hypersonic Realities], 2025.les7eb.substack.com</ref>
[[Ukraine]] Ministry of Defense claims a 25% interception rate for [[Russian]] hypersonic [[Kinzhal]] and [[Zircon]] missiles, but Ukrainian sources also indicate such interceptions require salvo firing all 32 launchers in a US-style [[Patriot missile]] battery to have any chance to shoot down a single hypersonic missile.
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