The U.S. is losing the hypersonic arms race to China—but a formidable, new weapon could change the game. When the U.S. Navy’s ...

The North American X-15 was an experimental Air Force and NASA Hypersonic Rocket powered aircraft that was used to ...

The X-51 Waverider’s 2013 hypersonic flight represented a milestone in military aviation, reaching Mach 5.1 using a scramjet ...

China has “the world’s leading hypersonic missile arsenal” that can threaten U.S. Navy ships, according to the Defense ...

and hypersonic cruise missiles (HCMs) that use air-breathing engines to reach high speeds. Aircrafts and guns that fire projectiles can also have hypersonic capacities. A 2023 UK government ...

Last May the Ministry of Defence (MOD) signed a new framework, with up to £1 billion of funding over seven years to develop a sovereign hypersonic strike capability by 2030. The recent test highlights ...

What's wanted if you're building a hypersonic cruise missile is an air-breathing engine that can continually power the vehicle along. This gives it a much greater range than a rocket or hypersonic ...

Mach 5 is the threshold for hypersonic speed, which is five times the speed of sound. The tests demonstrated the performance of “the high-speed air-breathing engine — enabling greater ranges ...

and the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Multiple designs were tested across varying speeds from supersonic to hypersonic speeds, to ensure the robustness of the design, the ministry said. Mr ...

LONDON—UK and U.S. scientists have completed a series of trials in support of the UK’s domestic development of a hypersonic cruise ... together with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory ...

While ballistic missiles still present a threat, hypersonic missiles developed in ... surveillance as the foundation for Golden Dome. The Air Force is already under contract to buy E-7A Wedgetails ...

The 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command leads and integrates all Army air defense assets in the Indo-Pacific region with our joint and multi-national partners and allies. Our command ...