MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Sunday that it had fired a Zircon (Tsirkon) hypersonic cruise missile at a target in the Barents Sea and that Sukoi Su-34 supersonic fighter-bombers had carried out ...

Kratos Defense will utilize the Hermeus high-speed Quarterhorse aircraft as part of its support work for the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency’s Multi-Service Advanced Capabilities Hypersonic ...

The tricky bit about hypersonic missiles is getting them up to velocities above Mach 5 and keeping them there in a practical way. For example, the way that most hypersonic test vehicles operate is ...

President Emmanuel Macron has announced that the next generation of French Rafale fighter jets will carry the advanced hypersonic nuclear cruise missiles for bolstered nuclear deterrence. Macron made ...

February 13 2025, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced its secretive Aerospace Projects Office (APO) is developing a large hypersonic bomber prototype as part of the Next ...

India’s scramjet success proves hypersonic strength, but turbine complexity keeps fighter engines a tough challenge.

Hypersonic flight may seem like the biggest shove to the envelope since the sound barrier was broken in 1947 and rotating detonation may look like a quantum leap in propulsion, but combining the two ...

The United States can be considered the leading military force in the whole world, but there are certain technologies other countries are pulling ahead in, giving them a significant advantage.

"Hypersonic" refers to speeds over Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. That's approximately 3,800 miles per hour, a pace that could take you all the way around the equator in less time than it ...

Aviation is a continually evolving industry. However, the last significant increase in the speed of air travel for the typical consumer was in the 1960s, when propeller aircraft made way for jets.