Planned defence system could make it harder for PLA to strike US bases like those in Guam and Okinawa, or warships trying to ...

Air-launched hypersonic weapons in both glide and powered forms are back in favor, receiving an extra $741 million funding ...

China is reviving Cold War-era FOBS technology — orbital nuclear missiles capable of bypassing U.S. defenses. With up to 60 FOBS and 4,000 hypersonic glide vehicles expected by 2035, America scrambles ...

Once deployed, the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) program should enhance the US military’s ability to conduct rapid, long-range precision strikes, providing a strategic advantage in countering ...

Notably, Rocket Lab’s HAEST (Hypersonic accelerator suborbital test electron) is a suborbital testbed launch vehicle that provides reliable, high-cadence flight test opportunities needed to boost ...

The missile is what’s called a boost-glide system: It reaches near-space altitudes using a rocket booster, then glides back to Earth at speeds exceeding five times the speed of sound (Mach 5).

Hypersonic missiles are classified as such if they're capable of reaching Mach 5-plus (3,836 mph). Several types have arisen, including hypersonic boost-glide vehicles, hypersonic cruise missiles ...

Avangard is the country's hypersonic boost-glide vehicle that attaches to its existing ICBMs. It can carry a two-megaton warhead capable of more destruction than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

First initiated by the U.S. Navy in 2022, the MACH-TB program is now in its second phase, after the MACH-TB 1.0 resulted in over 25 flight tests and the creation a hypersonic boost glide testbed.

Most notably, the U.S. Air Force decided not to field the Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) boost-glide hypersonic weapon when it was ready at the end of 2023, and the Hypersonic Attack ...

The 1.0 programme focused on a modular open-system architecture and multiple launch vehicle capabilities and developed a hypersonic boost glide testbed equipped with an experimental modular glide ...