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The Pentagon official in charge of planning for America's future wars downplayed Russian and Chinese efforts to develop hypersonic arsenals, a weapon the U.S. is currently unable to defend against."We are going to fly sooner and more often than people have ever expected," Patrick Shanahan, deputy defense secretary, told reporters Wednesday.A hypersonic weapon is a missile that travels at Mach 5 or higher, which is at least five times faster than the speed of sound. That means a hypersonic weapon can travel about one mile per second.Lockheed MartinConcept art of a hypersonic weapon.WASHINGTON —...

Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) Khalid A. Al-Falih (L), Russian President Vladimir Putin (2-L), Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden (3-L) take part in the plenary session 'Sustainable energy for a changing world' during the Russian Energy Week international forum at the Manege exhibition center in Moscow, Russia, 3 October 2018. [Kremlin pool/EPA/EFE]Global energy bosses assembled in Moscow on Wednesday (3 October) said the world needs Russian gas to keep the lights on, in a clea...

Israel’s Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi told his nation’s Army Radio on Wednesday, October 3 that the S-300 system will not have much of an affect against their warplanes, Al-Masdar News says.“The operational abilities of the air force are such that those (S-300) batteries really do not constrain the air force’s abilities to act,” he says.“You know that we have stealth fighters, the best planes in the world. These batteries are not even able to detect them,” he continued.The Israeli minister said that Russia already had their S-300 systems inside of Syria, so the weapon had alrea...