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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has overseen a test of a new hypersonic missile, declaring that the weapon is impossible to intercept and will guarantee the country's security over the coming decades.
Speaking to Russia's military top brass on Wednesday after watching the live feed of the launch of the Avangard system from the defence ministry's control room, Putin said the test was a "great success" and an "excellent New Year's gift to the nation".
According to the Kremlin, the missile was launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains and hit its target on a test site in Kamchatka, about 6,000km away.
[...] When first presenting it, the Russian president said the new missile system has an intercontinental range and can fly in the atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound, bypassing the enemy's missile defence. He emphasised that no other country currently has hypersonic weapons.
(Score: 3, Funny) by forkazoo on Friday December 28 2018, @05:58PM
Easy, you just shoot the hypersonic missile at van-rental stores. If nobody can rent a van, nobody can use a van to drive a Nuke into a city!
And because it's hypersonic, you can blow up a van faster than the atomic terrorist can walk to the rental shop, so the plan is definitely flawless.