See a mistake? Contact us. The maker of the world’s largest airplane is helping the U.S. Department of Defense test technologies at hypersonic speeds. Stratolaunch, whose turbofan-powered “Roc” boasts ...

A B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 419th Flight Test Squadron takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, California, in August 2020. The aircraft conducted a captive-carry flight test of the AGM-183A ...

The latest and final flight of the hypersonic missile built by Lockheed Martin was an end-to-end flight test. The Air Force has not said whether the test was successful or what its objectives were, ...

Hermeus has stolen another quick march on its way to building a hypersonic aircraft as it begins testing its proprietary precooler on a Pratt & Whitney F100 jet engine that will be installed in the ...

The first live-fire test took place on Jun. 28, in what the DoD also described as an “end-to-end flight test” of the hypersonic missile from the Pacific Missile Range in Kauai, Hawaii. “The test ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - Castelion, a startup trying to build a hypersonic weapon for the Pentagon, tested its system for the first time, it told Reuters on Monday, as a growing group of small ...

The U.S., Russia and China are in the middle of a hypersonic arms race — and right now, the U.S. is losing. But private companies are stepping up to develop hypersonic tech that shifts the edge back ...

The hypersonic arms race is in full swing: Countries around the world are investing staggering amounts of money into hypersonic weapons. And these are no longer limited to Russia, China, and the ...

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 ...

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 at ...

Hypersonic weapons are capable of changing trajectory mid-flight, making them extremely difficult to intercept. While fielding sixth-generation technology and platforms is all the buzz as of late, a ...

Initially, ballistic and hypersonic missiles would appear to be interchangeable tools of modern warfare. After all, both can cover enormous distances and reach mind-bending speeds. But underneath ...