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Why do you think they ask all of a sudden, seems, decided to unleash these war advanced missiles? >> mission is not going well for the russian federation, and their forces on the ground are getting chopped up and salami sliced in the way they've been pushing. to what -- to date, you know, using some precision weapons. we've seen that. and a lot of what they call dumb bombs. the hypersonics, part of it is, it's a marketing thing, i believe. 2018, vladimir putin went out in their state of the union talked about six new weapons systems. new hypersonics, so there's a lot of, a lot of flash that go...

Starting a troubling new phase of hypersonic warfare russian officials claiming they fared off more hypersonic missiles last night in ukraine and again this morning this time targeting the mykolaiv region. this days after a launch confirmed by the u.s. marking the first time these missiles were used in combat. fire russian test launches shown off the weapons which the u.s. is working to develop traveling at least five times speed of sound and fly lower than the standard missile making them harder to detect and better at evading defense systems. bring in retired brigadier general, senior attach...

Joining us is tom foreman to tell us more about these. what makes these so different? when they were launched, in this case everything dropped from a plane, this accelerates so rapidly. hypersonic means five times above the speed of sound. mach 5 or mach 10, 7,000 miles an hour. in doing this, what it generates is essentially what would be called a plasma cloud around it. this is by the compression of the atmosphere. one of the questions has been does it make hard to control it

It has caused substantial flooding to the north of kyiv and that is, of course, where a lot of he's in russian forces are stationed and trying to advance on the ukrainian capital. now, apparently there are several reasons why this is a big problem for russia. one hand, makes it a lot more difficult to cross that river, to try to get across. apparently trying it with pontoon bridges, so far unsuccessful pi lp some blown up by ukrainians. the other thing that happens, really important. consider fightsfighting in a pl like ukraine. earth is soggy bogging down russian forces. ukrainians put out vi...

Missile was so important, this is a so-called hypersonic missile, traveling at speeds up to mach 5 and above. difficult in a combat situation to shoot down if an adversary has that missile and if it is coming at you because of the high speed it travels at when it is launched from an aircraft, as it was in this test. here's the problem. the russians have this missile, this kind of technology, they already used it in ukraine. the u.s. says, it is not a game changer but the u.s. has not been able to successfully field a hypersonic missile, it is in the test phase in the u.s. military. so very imp...