Talon-A2 conducted a successful hypersonic flight and recovery in March 2025, after the first in December 2024. Stratolaunch announced on May 5, 2025, the successful completion of its second ...

In the summer of 2021, the ghost of the Cold War unexpectedly reared its head on an unremarkable Chinese peninsula. A Long March rocket roared into space and released a hypersonic glide vehicle, a ...

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 ...

A US-developed common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launches during a test. Adversary countries are ahead of the U.S. in their pursuit to field hypersonic weapons and the US is still nearly a decade ...

Hypersonic weapons are frequently described as having unique, game-changing capabilities because they combine hypersonic speeds (more than five times the speed of sound, or Mach 5) with long-distance ...

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 ...

GE Aerospace has demonstrated what it claims is the world's first hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet (DMRJ) rig test using Rotating Detonation Combustion (RDC) in a supersonic flow stream that could one day ...

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 Air Force is looking to bring back the AGM-183 ARRW with $1 billion in funding until FY2030, while also beginning to work on an Air-Launched Ballistic Program (ALBM) derived from the ARRW. The U.S ...

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 ...