Hypersonic weapons like Russia’s Oreshnik missile present a formidable challenge to existing missile defense systems. However, defenses capable of intercepting them do exist.

‘I thought it was a nuclear attack’. This is what a resident in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro said after Vladimir Putin ’s unleashed ‘Oreshnik’, one of the newest intermediate-range missiles in Russia ’s arsenal.

Russia will continue testing and start mass producing the new "Oreshnik" missile that was used to target Dnipro, Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.