The U.S. Navy will put its first fleet of hypersonic-armed warships in Hawaii by 2030, marking a major strategic shift toward ...

February 13 2025, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced its secretive Aerospace Projects Office (APO) is developing a large hypersonic bomber prototype as part of the Next ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - Castelion, a startup trying to build a hypersonic weapon for the Pentagon, tested its system for the first time, it told Reuters on Monday, as a growing group of small ...

Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead U.S. Strategic Command, has emphasized that the ...

MOJAVE, Calif. – The U.S., Russia and China are in the middle of a hypersonic arms race — and right now, the U.S. is losing. But private companies are stepping up to develop hypersonic tech that ...

Stratolaunch built and operates the world’s largest airplane by wingspan. It is the twin-fuselage Roc, which serves as an air-launch platform for reusable hypersonic vehicles. Their primary focus is ...

The delivery of the first prototype hypersonic hardware to the Army is seen in 2021. (Spc. Karleshia Gater/Army) The U.S. Army’s first unit to receive hypersonic weapons will get a battery’s worth of ...

The latest and final flight of the hypersonic missile built by Lockheed Martin was an end-to-end flight test. The Air Force has not said whether the test was successful or what its objectives were, ...

In a major defense milestone, the US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG-91) has successfully completed a simulated engagement with a live hypersonic missile in the ...

The U.S. Army deployed its Dark Eagle hypersonic missile system to Australia’s Northern Territory during the Talisman Sabre exercise, marking the weapon’s first overseas appearance, the service ...

Speed is paramount in designing missiles, so engineers have worked for years to improve how fast a missile can fly. The goal is to strike a target without warning, so the faster an object, the harder ...