“The United States has successfully tested a Raytheon Technologies air-breathing hypersonic weapon capable of speeds faster than five times the speed of sound, making it the third successful test of that class of weapon since 2013,” Reuters reports.
U.S. Successfully Tests Hypersonic Weapon
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