What to know about Hypersonic Missiles fired by Russia at Ukraine

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These are not hypersonic missiles. These are air to ground ballistic rockets, derivatives of already in use ground to ground Iskanders. Nothing new here.

OP: >In Aerodynamics, a hypersonic-speed is one that exceeds 5-times the speed of sound, often stated as starting at speeds of Mach-5 and above.

Hypersonic Speed : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic

OP: & OT: Please Note Well! -- This is NOT the Missile used in Ukraine!

You may like to look at some historic News articles of a Russian attempt to develop a nuclear-powered 'skyfall' nuclear-armed cruise-missile

Posted under 'Project Pluto - nuclear-powered ramjet engines' : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30750131 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

'9M730 Burevestnik' (a.k.a. Skyfall) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik

'Russia’s Nuclear-Powered ‘Skyfall’ Missile' : https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/07/russias-nuclear-powered-...

'A Deadly Mishap in Russia's Far North, and a Nuclear Mystery lingers' : https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/12/europe/russia-military-bl...

'Russia says Rocket Explosion caused 16-fold Radiation Spike' : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49339895

>'Five scientists were killed and three injured in the accident on Thursday at a military facility in the White Sea.

A nuclear-powered engine was being tested near the village of Nyonoksa, to the west of Severodvinsk, Russia's state nuclear agency Rosatom said.'

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