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Military vehicles carry an earlier version of China’s hypersonic missile during a 2019 parade. AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

China’s hypersonic missiles threaten US power in the Pacific – an aerospace engineer explains how the weapons work and the unique threats they pose

China’s newest hypersonic missile, the DF-27, could sideline US aircraft carrier groups in the Pacific, while missiles in the works in China, Russia and the US threaten global security.
Military target? A boy looks at a fragment of Russian rocket in a children’s playpark, Kyiv, October 2022. Oleksii Chumachenko/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire

Ukraine war: a desperate Russia defaults to attacking civilians

Failing on the battlefield, Russia is now concentrating its fire against civilians in Ukraine’s major cities.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Mason in the Suez Canal on Oct. 20, 2016, days after missiles were aimed at it from rebel-held areas of Yemen. (U.S. Navy handout)

Missile interception from Yemen to the South China Sea

Ship attacks near Yemen last October have implications for missile defence from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Romania to Japan.

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