The USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) has completed sea trials after a major overhaul replacing its failed gun systems with 12 hypersonic missile launchers. This marks the destroyer’s transformation into the U.S ...

The USS Zumwalt has completed a major modernization and returned to sea as the U.S. Navy’s first surface warship armed with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United States has actively pursued the development of hypersonic weapons—maneuvering weapons that fly at speeds of at least Mach 5—as a part of its conventional prompt global strike program since ...

What do China, Russia, North Korea and Iran have in common? Each member of this axis of aggressors has developed (or at least has claimed to have developed) operational hypersonic weapons. These ...

Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane. Twice in the last five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five ...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions will build a $50 million facility in Indiana to test and improve hypersonic weapons. The facility is expected to create over 100 jobs with an average salary of ...