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by pseudohadamard 89 days ago
Yes, that's exactly what I said, it was technically a hypersonic missile because it could travel at more than Mach 5. In the same way that the Kinzhal is technically a hypersonic missile and please ignore that fact that you can shoot it down with a 1980s-vintage Patriot, which at Mach 3-ish is definitely not hypersonic no matter how you fiddle the figures.