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Hypersonic weapons can travel at a speed of at least five times the speed of sound, around 3,800 miles per hour. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says he is not satisfied with the pace of development for those hypersonic missiles and says there is some progress on technology, but he wants it to be even better. - Mark Lewis, executive director of the Emerging Technologies Institute at the National Defense Industrial Association and former director of defense research and engineering at the Pentagon, said Chinese and Russian development of hypersonic weapons has sparked concern, but investing in them is important...
