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Anna Desmarais

Hypersonic weapons are fast becoming 'critical technology' for Europe's defence. How do they work?

Over the course of six weeks, a joint team from the United Kingdom and the United States recently carried out 233 test runs of an advanced missile model that travels at several thousand kilometres per hour. 

This team completed hundreds of "static tests" on a propulsion system that will power a "cutting edge" hypersonic cruise missile to be released before the end of the decade, the UK government announced on Sunday. 

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