![]() ![]() ![]() Though some, like the Avangard, are intended to carry nuclear warheads, others can use their high speed and accuracy to destroy targets with the kinetic energy of impact alone. They are launched into the upper atmosphere in the normal fashion atop existing ballistic missiles, but then release hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs) which fly lower, faster and-to an adversary-much more unpredictably than old-fashioned re-entry vehicles. Hypersonic boost-glide weapons are different. They are simply faster versions of existing cruise missiles, like the Tomahawk. ![]() Hypersonic cruise missiles are powered by rockets or jets throughout their flight. Hypersonic weapons are those that can travel more than five times the speed of sound, or around one mile (1.6km) per second.
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