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Hypersonic weapons travel at speeds greater than Mach 5, or approximately 4,000 miles per hour.

The US Navy and Army have blasted off a rocket from a launch pad in Virginia to test nearly a dozen hypersonic weapon experiments to help develop the new class of weapon, the Pentagon said, calling the test successful.

The US military has already sounded the bugle for the deployment of an operation hypersonic weapon as tensions continue to rise in the Indo-Pacific and a bloody war continues to drag in the East European region. To that end, the Pentagon oversaw blasting off a rocket to test key ‘hypersonic components’.

U.S. strategic missiles, bombers and submarines are old and operating beyond their technical life expectancies, and replacements and upgraded warheads are needed urgently to deter growing nuclear threats from China, Russia and North Korea, according to military and defense officials.

Lawmakers say the money is "early to need," but Navy argues cuts could imperil the Pentagon's efforts to ensure its hypersonic weapon programs stay on track.