Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The slow development of hypersonic weapons by the U.S., combined with the efforts of Russia and China, is creating "battlefield ...

The Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) conducted its first hypersonic test, in which the speed reached is equivalent to "crossing mainland Portugal, from north to south, in just over five minutes," the ...

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 University of Virginia (UVA) School of Engineering and Applied Science is taking a major step in ultra-high-temperature ceramics research by establishing a pioneering electromagnetic levitation ...

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 ...

Stratolaunch may conduct a hypersonic test flight in the coming days from California's Mojave Air & Space Port. The company uses the world's largest aircraft, Roc, to launch its uncrewed, 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 ...

DeMarco said that further details about the drone can’t be released yet, although a spokesperson later told The War Zone that the name will be released “at or near initial flight.” As in many of its ...

The United States conducted a successful flight test of a conventional hypersonic missile in Florida, after a new Russian nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missile debuted in combat. The U.S.

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.

What do China, Russia, North Korea and Iran have in common? Each member of this axis of aggressors has developed (or at least has claimed to have developed) operational hypersonic weapons. These ...