Somewhere in the sprawling test ranges of the American Southwest, a missile designed to fly at five times the speed of sound ...

For years, hypersonic weapons have been portrayed as the next revolution in warfare. Capable ...

Air Force hypersonic weapons and fighter jets with lasers could fly in the skies of the future. Air Force Research Laboratory researchers have made top priorities of hypersonics, directed-energy ...

Summary and Key Points: For decades, rumors claimed the U.S. had secretly built the SR-91 Aurora — a hypersonic spy plane ...

WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - Castelion, a small California defense startup, has won a $105 million U.S. Navy contract to ready ‌its Blackbeard hypersonic missile for use aboard the Navy's ...

The Los Angeles defence startup flew a demonstrator the size of an F-16 in March. A third aircraft is now in development. CEO AJ Piplica says the only way to build hypersonic aircraft at this pace is ...

Japan has completed a ground combustion test of a ramjet engine for a Mach 5 experimental aircraft, marking a step forward in the country’s long-running hypersonic flight research endeavors. The Japan ...

Readers have told us that military news is important to them and we have a reporter dedicated to bringing you the latest. Barrie Barber covers Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and military affairs for ...

Discover Japan's Mach 5 hypersonic engine. We explain the JAXA Kakuda Space Center ramjet test that could make 2-hour flights ...

The thesis is straightforward and increasingly visible across DoD budget documents and procurement actions: U.S. hypersonic weapons, vehicles, and propulsion systems are advancing through development ...