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YJ-20: Meet the Chinese Missile Built to Break the US Navy
The YJ-20 is particularly concerning for American defense planners because large US ships still have no reliable countermeasures against hypersonic weapons.
The Pentagon said China has the world's leading hypersonic missile arsenal for conventional and nuclear strikes.
India achieved a significant milestone in its hypersonic missile programme as the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted an extended ground test of a full-scale actively cooled scramjet engine on Friday (9 January).