If you travel fast enough past the speed of sound, you enter hypersonic territory, but attaining those speeds comes with a ...

Hypersonic aircraft promise to compress distance and time in ways that make even the fastest supersonic jets look dated, yet ...

The Air Force may move forward with both the Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon and the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile, officials said. (Giancarlo Casem/U.S. Air Force) The Air Force wants to revive ...

The Air Force is resurrecting its boost-glide missile program—an effort first launched to much fanfare in August 2018, only to see mixed results in testing and ultimately lose support from service ...

(CNN) -- The US Air Force carried out a successful test of its troubled hypersonic missile over the weekend, one month after announcing the program had suffered delays because of "recent flight test ...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) plans for a High-Speed Strike Weapon (HSSW) demonstration program to follow on from hypersonic flights of the Boeing X-51A WaveRider scramjet ...

WASHINGTON — NASA and the United States Air Force are looking for university and industry partners as they work to advance hypersonic research. NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in ...

Department of Defense officials announced the undisclosed missile that quickly accelerated from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on April 25 was a successful hypersonic flight test. In a press ...

Raytheon Technologies Corp.’s missile and defense division has received the go-ahead from the Air Force to move beyond the prototype phase and continue development of a new hypersonic cruise missile ...

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The Japan Self-Defense Force recently tested the deployment of a developing hypersonic missile system that is designed to defend Tokyo’s islands from foreign warships. The Acquisition, Technology and ...

The Pentagon has unveiled an innovation strategy comprising six key areas aimed at cementing America’s military edge on the world stage. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil ...