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• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/hypersonic-missile-delay-puts-u-s-further-behind-russia-and-china/ar-AAVWmDI?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=1cd98407413d499fbdd34197c8e9d772

(Bloomberg) — The first U.S. hypersonic weapon will be delayed for as long as a year under a new schedule, even as lawmakers protest that the Pentagon is lagging behind in a new technology that Russia has already used in Ukraine and China has demonstrated in a space launch.

©BloombergThe Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., on Friday, April 9, 2021.

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