In contrast to aircraft and subsonic missiles, the Navy’s hypersonic Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) missile reaches a 2,200 nautical mile distant target in 30 minutes. A nation amply equipped ...

The delivery of the first prototype hypersonic hardware to soldiers of the 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Field Artillery Brigade is completed on Oct. 7, 2021, with a ceremony ...

An image of July 4, 2024, test of hypersonic weapon by Japan’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) of an HVGP test launch conducted on March 23, 2024. ATLA Image The State ...

Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. The world has taken notice of the hypersonic technology that China and Russia ...

This successful flight of Erinyes™ expanded the vehicle’s performance envelope and demonstrated the utility of the platform as a low-cost, rapidly configurable test bed for hypersonic ...

An X-51A Waverider hypersonic flight vehicle. Credit: U.S. Air Force Photo / Alamy Stock Photo The U.S. government plans to support Japan’s hypersonic weapons program with testing ...

A U.S. Army Long Range Hypersonic Weapon launcher. Credit: U.S. Army The health of the U.S. military’s nuclear deterrence has long been touted as the Defense Department’s top priority.

Related North Korea claims successful test of new intermediate-range hypersonic missile U.S., Japan pledge continued deterrence amid Russian, North Korean, Chinese threats Putin says Russia ...

UDRI performs Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling of hypersonic flows in order to better guide the design process. CFD allows iteration and flexibility within a given design space, thus ...

NB-52A was nicknamed the “The High and Mighty One,” and served as one of two motherships for the X-15 hypersonic research program that set speed and altitude records that still stand today.

The Minuteman III ICBM is a hypersonic missile capable of traveling at a speed equal to at least five times the speed of sound and is capable of striking Moscow within 30 minutes of its launch.