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Re:U.S. successfully flight-tests Raytheon hypersonic weapon by tomatotomato37 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:55PM (#32154593)
Not just maneuvearable, but actively maneuverable, aka able to sense some type of input inside the cone of visibly superheated air around it. This is different than an ICBM RV drifting around with RCS before re-entry or a cruise missile idling about before it's accelerated to attack speed.

Unrelated but that's also why any talk of stealth with hypersonic is stupid; everything around the projectile is going to give off more of a signature than the projectile itself

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Re:U.S. successfully flight-tests Raytheon hypersonic weapon by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @02:52PM (#32156238)
> Not just maneuvearable, but actively maneuverable, aka able to sense some type of input inside the cone of visibly superheated air around it.

For ICBMs these are called MARV warheads and they were first demonstrated in the early 1980s, and every major power has had them, though many don't have any operational now.

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