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  2. Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile - Wikipedia

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    Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile (HVGP) (島嶼防衛用高速滑空弾, Tōsyobōeiyō-kōsoku-kakkūdan) is a Japanese hypersonic glide vehicle being intended to be used as a hypersonic weapon in defending of remote islands. [1] [2]

  3. Hypersonic glide vehicle - Wikipedia

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    Japan. Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile (HVGP) (under development) [17] North Korea. Hwasong-8. [18] Hwasong-12B (not tested yet). [19] It is possible that the Hwasong-12B was renamed from Hwasong-8. [20] Hwasong-16B (tested in April 2024). [21] There have also been reports of other hypersonic glide vehicle being mounted on the other ballistic ...

  4. Hypersonic weapon - Wikipedia

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    The Silbervogel was the first design for a hypersonic weapon and was developed by German scientists in the 1930s, but was never constructed. [6]The ASALM (Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile) was a medium-range strategic missile program developed in the late 1970s for the United States Air Force; the missile's development reached the stage of propulsion-system testing, test-flown to Mach 5 ...

  5. Category:Hypersonic weapons - Wikipedia

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    A hypersonic weapon is a weapon capable of travelling at hypersonic speed, defined as between 5 and 25 times the speed of sound or about 1 to 5 miles per second (1.6 to 8.0 km/s). The main article for this category is Hypersonic weapon .

  6. Category:Guided missiles of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Guided missiles of Japan include guided missiles designed, built, ... Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile; T. Type 07 vertical-launch anti-submarine rocket

  7. List of vehicle speed records - Wikipedia

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    Central Japan Railway Company: 21 Apr 2015 GWR [25] Wheeled: 574.8: 357.2: TGV POS V150: ... There is no officially recognized speed record for underwater craft, due ...

  8. Hypersonic flight - Wikipedia

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    In February 1949, at White Sands, the rocket reached a speed of 8,290 km/h (5,150 mph), or about Mach 6.7. [2] The vehicle, however, burned on atmospheric re-entry, and only charred remnants were found. In April 1961, Russian Major Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel at hypersonic speed, during the world's first piloted orbital flight.

  9. Submarine-launched ballistic missile - Wikipedia

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    Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile: 3000 [49] Japan: Under development [50] Non-military use. Some former Russian SLBMs have been converted into Volna and Shtil ...