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Emerging technology snapshot : countermeasures against hypersonic weapons.D69-71/2023E-PDF

"Hypersonic weapons (including cruise missiles, glide and boost-glide vehicles) travel at Mach 5 or higher, retain a degree of in-flight maneuverability and follow lower-altitude, difficult-to-track trajectories, all of which make intercepting these weapons much harder than with ballistic missiles. Research on countermeasures to hypersonic weapons include high-power lasers and microwave weapons, railguns and hypersonic interceptors, along with ‘soft-kill’ weapons like cyberattacks to confuse, overload or disable critical subsystems, such as receivers for satellite navigation signals or controllers for flight surfaces"--page [1].

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Publication information
Department/Agency
  • Defence R&D Canada, issuing body.
  • Canada. Department of National Defence, issuing body.
TitleEmerging technology snapshot : countermeasures against hypersonic weapons.
Publication typeMonograph
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Issued also in French under title: Technologie émergente en bref : contre-mesures visant les armes hypersoniques.
  • Caption title.
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Publishing information
  • [Ottawa] : Defence Research and Development Canada = Recherche et développement pour la défense Canada, 2023.
  • ©2023
Description1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages)
ISBN9780660497822
Catalogue number
  • D69-71/2023E-PDF
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