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Japan invests in railgun to shoot down North Korea missiles
Japan is spending tens of millions of pounds on an electromagnetic gun that fires supersonic missiles to try to hit even faster missiles deployed by North Korea, China and Russia.
Tokyo’s project has been given new impetus by advances in hypersonic weaponry, such as the short-range missile fired by North Korea into the Sea of Japan on Monday.
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