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Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's only the bit right before it hits where in needs to be hypersonic, isn't it?

No, that's the China, Russia definition.

Fast enough to avoid interceptors.

Ballistic trajectories still have a long arc that makes it easier to detect and deploy countermeasures. It's how patriot, iron dome, and other systems are allowed to work.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 minutes ago

In principle, sure. But in practice, its easier to spend a lot of cheep ballistics running the interceptors dry. After that, it doesn't really matter how long you can maintain hypersonic speeds.