Shock and AHW: they won't hear it coming.

Imagine a hypersonic ground-based missile capable of flying faster than Mach 5 +, capable of hitting any target on Earth within 1 hour.   Now stop imagining.  We have it.  Thursday the Pentagon tested a missile that does just that.  The "Advanced Hypersonic Weapon," or AHW,  was launched from Hawaii at 1130 GMT and flew over the Pacific "at hypersonic speed" before surprising the hell out of a target on the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands.

read about it here