The following is the April 10, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Hypersonic Weapons: Background and Issues for ...

The test comes as the Trump administration is pushing for the deployment of a next-generation missile defense shield.

In a major defense milestone, the US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG-91) has successfully ...

Many countries have blocked planes from travelling at such high speed due to the disturbance from noisy sonic booms when ... is capable of super high speed ‘hypersonic’ flight.

Hypersonic flight, with speeds exceeding Mach 5, pushes the boundaries of engineering. But as vehicles slice through the atmosphere at these incredible velocities, complex interactions occur ...

About 12 years later, the U.S. Air Force’s X-15 became the first piloted aircraft to achieve hypersonic flight ... which are operational only above Mach 3. Australia-based Hypersonix designed ...

This was similar to the first live BMD test from Guam on Dec. 10, 2024, where an SM-3 intercepted the MRBM target released from a C-17. The images released show the hypersonic test target ...

Kratos is developing a hypersonic drone, adding to a growing portfolio of high-speed vehicles, CEO Eric DeMarco told Aviation Week in a March 18 interview. All further details of the project ...

Johns said some of the hypersonic weapons travel at 15 times the speed of sound, or about 3 miles per second, which means the components are exposed to an enormous amount of physical stress and heat.