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Even Nazi Germany's V2 was almost hypersonic. "Hypersonic" is an abused term from Russia to make old missiles sound better than they are.

• raxxorraxor 2y ago
  Supersonic as a novelty refers to supersonic cruise missiles. Ballistic missiles are something different. Larger range but unguided after they burned all their fuel. But they do reach supersonic speeds. Cruise missiles have a lower range but can change course. This makes interception more difficult since you don't know for sure where they will hit. The difficulty in intercepting ballistic missiles is that they are very fast and supersonic cruise missiles would make up for the weakness of being generally slower. The only guided munitions in WW2 I know of were naval torpedoes, I think everything else was still unguided.
  • pinewurst 2y ago
    There were guided bombs in WW2, radio command and even IR experimentally.
  • preisschild 2y ago
    There were radio-guided gravity bombs during WW2, the V-1 cruise missiles was also radio guided as well as the V-2 ballistic missile.