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Msat, another balloon maker on the blacklist. in this 2017 state media report on m-sat, the anchor touts that they can carry a large number of detectors for surveillance oreck sans for civilian and military use. cnn has reached out to all 6 entities for comment but noun have responded. thinking balloon program is not just for surveillance, but also for strike and the potential for dropping warheads, including hypersonic glide vehicles from high altitudes. >> reporter: this week beijing has made ...

There are new weapons that leverage hypersonic speeds to achieve objectives in new or different ways. Russia's Kinzhal just isn't one of them.

Harder for u.s. defenses to shoot down. >> hypersonic glide vehicles can drop out of orbit and incinerate an american city with very little warning. these are weapons that we have very few defenses against. >> reporter: why is he acting in such a threatening manner right now? some analysts believe he wants to provoke the biden administration into engaging in negotiations with him so he can get crippling sanctions against his country reduced. experts say he could be doing this to distract his peo...

And calls the projectile a hypersonic missile. south koreas military said this vessel was more advanced than the weapon tested last week which the regime claimed was a hypersonic missile. if thats true, north korea may have tested hypersonic missiles in three months. >> if they are equipped with weapons, they can reach seoul in minutes. >> reporter: the so-called glide vehicles they sendoff is so dangerous, they could fly as fast as 20 times the speed of sound and are more maneuverable in flight...

That austins closing message was that the hypersonics, theyre absolutely serious. we need to focus on this. he said we are distracted now by russia, but china is the real threat. >> and how much money is this going to cost the united states? >> a lot of money. the fiscal year 2022 budget committed about $3.8 billion to hypersonic research. but the real issue is not just funding this technology, its also funding the infrastructure to test this technology. one of the big issues that came up at thi...

While it's the first operational use of this new Russian weapon, it's not as historic as it may seem.

America has no hypersonic nuclear missiles in development, but plenty of other programs are underway.

Today, there are at least 15 formally disclosed hypersonic weapons in service or development around the globe. To date, only Russia and China have operational hypersonic weapons in service, with the United States still at least a year away from fielding its first fully operational weapon.