Forget Nukes; Russia’s Been Building Nightmarish Super Weapon Technology

14. Hyper Sonic Missles

Leveraging a partnership with India, Russia has a design for a missile called the Yu-71, which could fly up to 7,000 mph. This speed, combined with an unpredictable flight pattern, would allow the Yu-71 to evade air defense systems. Here’s the rub. They can’t get the prototypes to fly without failures. Also, the U.S. has long since had such missiles so good luck catching up, Russia.



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