The United States has been exploring research and development of hypersonic weapons technologies for decades. Historically, such funding has been relatively modest, but in recent years the ...

According to experts, their use in Ukraine is a world first for hypersonic weaponry. Russia's arsenal consists of Avangard, Kinjal and Zircon missiles. As the media outlet GEO points out ...

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 ...

In contrast to aircraft and subsonic missiles, the Navy’s hypersonic Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) missile reaches a 2,200 nautical mile distant target in 30 minutes. A nation amply equipped ...

hypersonic missile program under a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract valued at about $308.3 million. The contract’s other tasks include support services on flight testing, global positioning system ...

This successful flight of Erinyes™ expanded the vehicle’s performance envelope and demonstrated the utility of the platform as a low-cost, rapidly configurable test bed for hypersonic ...

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 ...

UDRI performs Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling of hypersonic flows in order to better guide the design process. CFD allows iteration and flexibility within a given design space, thus ...

As Russia and China make advancements on hypersonic missiles, Canada has reactivated a test facility related to such weapons that hasn’t been in use for the past 20 years. The Department of ...

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