You've got the North Koreans and of course the Russians have not only been developing these intermediate range missiles but hypersonic and more strategic nuclear capable missiles as well.
Russia's military says the hypersonic missile can travel 2,000 kilometers and flies 10 times faster than the speed of sound, which makes it hard to shoot down.
Government controlled media in North Korea said the missile was hypersonic, meaning it could fly as fast as 20 times the speed of sound and be nearly impossible to shoot down.
The navy's engineers, it seems, are trying to revive an idea that might make hypersonic flight easier to achieve, but which was tested and then abandoned more than half a century ago.
The potential is around the world, you could literally have drones that would fly even hypersonic around the world and reduce the time from harvest of the organ to delivery to a patient two hours.
Reports say Japan upgraded its cruise missiles and research on hypersonic weapons as it seeks to increase military spending to counter what Tokyo sees as the rising threat from China.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow in a video address released Saturday as Russia reported its first hypersonic missile strike on Ukrainian territory.
Meanwhile, Russia pounded cities and energy facilities across Ukraine with hypersonic missiles and drones in one of its biggest assaults of the conflict so far.
In addition to flying at extremely high speeds, hypersonic weapons are designed to move in ways that make them difficult to find and destroy in flight.