While hypersonic weapons promise near-uninterceptable speed and range, defenses remain limited. Japan is advancing a ...

The Blackbeard missile flies five times faster than sound, has a range of 1,000km, but costs only as much as... a luxury car.

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 ...

The U.S. Air Force is undergoing a “radical retooling” to win a future war against a peer adversary. -This new doctrine ...

Stratolaunch has been awarded a $24.7 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to conduct hypersonic flight test missions. The company will use its *Spirit of ...

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 ...

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 ...

BARCELONA (AP) — Iran is boasting that it has hypersonic missiles and says it already has begun firing the cutting-edge weapons at Israel. There is no evidence that Iran has unleashed the missiles, ...

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, ...

A major player in aerospace innovation has bitten the dust. Reaction Engines, a developer of hypersonic engine technology since 1989, has gone into administration and its closure is having an impact ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional ...