The USS Zumwalt has been rebuilt at extraordinary cost into the Navy's first hypersonic strike ship, and the number at the ...

The Navy spent about $22 billion on three Zumwalt destroyers it never quite knew what to do with. Now it's ripped out their failed guns and is filling the space with hypersonic missiles — weapons that ...

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 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A California-based startup led by former SpaceX executives announced Jan. 29 it has raised $100 million to accelerate development of lower-cost hypersonic missiles, marking Silicon ...

Longshot announced on July 8, 2026, that it has joined the U.S. Air Force’s ...

MOJAVE, Calif. – 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 ...

A live AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon was photographed on a B-52H currently stationed at Andersen AFB for a Bomber Task Force deployment. The U.S. Air Force just published some really ...

A Common Hypersonic Glide Body launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, during a DOD flight experiment in March 2020. (U.S. Navy) The U.S. Army is aiming for one more major test of ...

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 ...

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While hypersonic missiles powered by ramjets or other advanced propulsion systems offer significant performance advantages, glide bodies are mechanically much simpler to build and deploy. As the name ...

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