Hypersonic weapons could jeopardise global security
Hypersonic weapons will be a priority for Russia, the United States and China but they could provoke major confrontation
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- Countering US BMD
- 'Boost-glide' weapons
- Russian hypersonic weapons
- Chinese tests
- US research
- Russian fears
- Impediments to cooperation
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