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Chinese hypersonic test like a ‘Sputnik moment’: Top US general

The Pentagon's top general said Wednesday that China's recent test of an earth- circling hypersonic bullet was akin to the Soviet Union's stunning launch of the world's first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, which sparked the superpowers' space race Mark Milley, president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, verified for the first time the Chinese test of a nuclear-able bullet that would be veritably delicate to defend against. "What we saw was a veritably significant event of a test of a hypersonic armament system. And it's veritably concerning,"Milley told Bloomberg TV I do not know if it's quite a Sputnik moment, but I suppose it's veritably close to that,"he said "It's a veritably significant technological event that passed. and it has all of our attention The US Department of Defense had prelimi...