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Jun 2021

Cruise missiles and boost gliders that can travel faster than five times the speed of sound without revealing their target until the very last moment have become a reality. While hypersonic weapon systems are on their way to change the strategic stability parameters by the middle of this decade, the magnitude of their disruptive effect remains a known unknown.

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Author Dominika Kunertova, (Series Editors: Lisa Watanabe, Julian Kamasa, Fabien Merz, Névine Schepers, Benno Zogg)
Series CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue 285
Publisher Center for Security Studies (CSS)
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