The U.S. Navy plans to fire Castelion’s Blackbeard hypersonic missile from an F/A-18 Super Hornet by 2027. Built by former ...

The Air Force just unlocked something TERRIFYING inside a 40-year-old bomber! With 36 hypersonic missiles on a single ...

The U.S. Navy advances its Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missile program, focusing on a cold-gas launch system and potential deployment aboard Zumwalt-class destroyers amid concerns over cost ...

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 ...

Hypersonic vehicles have become the latest military prestige technology, and the US seems to be lagging its rivals. That could change after the successful flight of an autonomous and reusable ...

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 ...

Summary: Lockheed Martin’s recent unveiling of the Mako missile at the Sea Air Space 2024 event represents a significant advancement in air-launched hypersonic weapon systems. Designed to be carried ...

The United States can be considered the leading military force in the whole world, but there are certain technologies other countries are pulling ahead in, giving them a significant advantage.

The United States has actively pursued the development of hypersonic weapons as a part of its conventional prompt global strike program since the early 2000s. In recent years, it has focused such ...

TACOMA, Wash. — The top general for the Army’s hypersonic weapons program says the Dark Eagle battery based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in the Pacific Northwest will receive its first operational ...

A Common Hypersonic Glide Body launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, during a DOD flight experiment in March 2020. (U.S. Navy) The U.S. Army is aiming for one more major test of ...

Hypersonic weapons are frequently described as having unique, game-changing capabilities because they combine hypersonic speeds (more than five times the speed of sound, or Mach 5) with long-distance ...