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At what speed is the supersonic-hypersonic border

At Mach 2, the Concorde was called a supersonic plane, but at Mach 5, a missile is deemed "hypersonic". Wouldn't it require at least an order of magnitude in speed gap? Otherwise Mach 7 will become subluminic...

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