<div dir="ltr">Just a bit of hype.  This is merely the latest iteration/generation of ICBMs, which are hypersonic weapons that the US and Russia (among others) have had for a while.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 4:07 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>"Russia just revealed that its hypersonic weapon — the Avangard — is now 
operational, making it the first military in possession of a new class 
of nuclear weapon against which other militaries <a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/raytheon-hypersonic-tactical-boost-glide" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">currently cannot defend</a>."

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