How to Use hypersonic in a Sentence

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• 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
• 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 rocket went hypersonic and reached space, but failed to make it into orbit.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Russia launched four hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, according to the statement, which did not say whether any where among those that hit.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• On May 4, Russian forces fired a hypersonic missile at Kyiv.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2024
• It's used the hypersonic missile which brought a lot of people's attention.
  — NBC News, 20 Mar. 2022
• The Journal reports of China testing a hypersonic missile last year that flew around the world and landed safely back at home.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2022
• Russia fired Kinzhal hypersonic missiles in the strikes, according to Ukraine’s armed forces.
  — Ty Roush, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• That is hypersonic speed, or the range at which a new class of missiles in development by nations like the US, China, and Russia are designed to fly.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2023
• Raytheon and Northrop Grumman won a contract worth $985 million to develop the world’s first hypersonic cruise missile.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2022
• The motors go into space rockets and missiles such as hypersonic weapons for the Pentagon.
  — baltimoresun.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• China has already deployed one medium-range hypersonic weapon, while the U.S. is still a few years from fielding its first one, according to Hyten.
  — David Martin, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2021
• There has been ample criticism of the Kinzhal missile and of its designation as a hypersonic weapon.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2023
• By making a gun that can shoot projectiles that fly faster than hypersonic missiles fly, a railgun could possibly be a tool that can shoot down such weapons.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2023
• The first step was to select a landing site for the 90kg capsule, which would plunge through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds before releasing a parachute to slow for landing.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2023
• One major new weapons system — long-range hypersonic missiles — will come online in the coming months, the Army secretary added.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2023
• Moving at hypersonic speeds, the wind blows out from the sun like an inflating balloon, forming what astronomers call the heliosphere.
  — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
• One touchscreen station offers an exploration of future aircraft, like flying cars and hypersonic craft that will fly at five times the speed of sound.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023
• Of course, Google’s hypersonic research may have nothing to do with HyperSciences.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• It’s designed to take off and land using an airport runway, unlike other hypersonic planes, and has room to carry up to three rockets.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2023
• The service still has China in its sights, and any aircraft or hypersonic weapon useful in a conflict with China would be useful in a scenario with Russia.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2022
• There was very little cyber warfare, and Russia had used just a few hypersonic missiles.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
• One of those compelling needs is funding the deployment of the Army’s first long-range hypersonic weapon battery, Camarillo said.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 28 Mar. 2023
• For more than a year, Ukraine has had no air-defense system that could counter Russia’s arsenal of ballistic or hypersonic missiles like the Kinzhal.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024