How to Use hypersonic in a Sentence

hypersonic

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• But much of the physics of hypersonic flight is still a mystery.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2021
• Each of the three ships are also set to receive up to a dozen hypersonic missiles.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2022
• Putin went on to claim that a number of warships will soon be equipped with hypersonic weapons.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 31 July 2022
• On the other hand, China can’t even be sure that its hypersonic weapons will work as planned.
  — Michael Peck, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• Those weapons could include hypersonic warheads that can fly faster than the speed of sound.
  — Lee Roop, AL.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• And developing hypersonic (more than five times the speed of sound) weapons that can strike anywhere in the world in less than an hour.
  — George Will, National Review, 22 July 2017
• The Zumwalt test-fired an SM-2 missile for the first time last fall and the Navy recently announced that the ships would be the first to field its new hypersonic missiles.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2021
• Has Iran made it to the A-list among countries that can produce hypersonic missiles?
  — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 9 June 2023
• The third craft in blue looks like a hypersonic glide vehicle.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2022
• If Russia can field numbers of its new hypersonic missiles, the game may be about to change.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• But at hypersonic speeds, the movement of the jet itself compresses the air.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• The United States is racing to catch up on hypersonic weapons.
  — Rose Wagner, baltimoresun.com, 1 July 2021
• Its navy has advanced hypersonic missiles and more ships than the U.S. Navy.
  — Jane Perlez, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2024
• The rocket went hypersonic and reached space, but failed to make it into orbit.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• An even longer-range hypersonic missile is also in the works.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• If this happens, the Zumwalts could become the first surface ships equipped with both hypersonic and laser weaponry.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2021
• The warheads then streak down on the target below at hypersonic speeds.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2019
• But this equipment would melt if used at hypersonic speeds.
  — Kate Baggaley /, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2018
• That includes the use of hypersonic missiles, which fly up to 15 times the speed of sound and can easily evade air defense systems.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• True, tougher tasks lie ahead to manage new threats such as hypersonic weapons and cyber-warfare.
  — The Economist, 27 Dec. 2019
• And the Army is developing its plans to combat hypersonic space weapons in Huntsville.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 20 Sep. 2019
• The daylight attack included the use of Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, one of the most advanced Russian weapons, the air force said.
  — Daryna Mayer, NBC News, 8 July 2024
• Among the weapons were six hypersonic Kinzhal cruise missiles, Ukrainian air force spokesman Yurii Ihnat said.
  — Hanna Arhirova and Elena Becatoros, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2023
• But even with better radar detection, the physics of hypersonic weapons will still vex the defenders.
  — Michael Peck, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• Second are hypersonic weapons, including missiles, that can send a warhead at five-times the speed of sound to a target.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 18 June 2020
• The race for hypersonic technology is high stakes, and experts fear the Chinese and the Russians are making progress.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 4 June 2021
• That’s large enough to carry a future hypersonic weapon.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Sep. 2019
• Flight tests for some of those weapons — like a hypersonic cruise missile — are just getting underway.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2010
• The company has received U.S. defense contracts for satellites to detect new threats such as hypersonic missiles.
  — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded to Putin's threats to expand use of these hypersonic missiles in his nightly address.
  — Willem Marx, NPR, 28 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024