Rocket Lab may have found a new field for hypergrowth: defending the U.S. from hypersonic missiles.
China revealed for the first time the launch of the YJ-20 missile from a smaller destroyer, paving the way for one of its ...
Footage released by state media on Monday showed a rare scene of at least six DF-17 hypersonic missile launch vehicles of the ...
Hypersonic weapons testing cleared a key milestone as the Pentagon confirmed Hermeus Quarterhorse completed an unmanned ...
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The industrial race behind hypersonic weapons

China has spent years developing a robust industrial and research sector supporting hypersonic weapons development. To catch up, the United States has its work cut out.
Putting YJ-20s on Type 052D destroyers, not just the giant Type 055, distributes the capability across many more hulls and ...
Taiwan has completed the design of a hypersonic cruise missile that would be ready for mass production by next year at the earliest, a senior official said on Saturday.The National Chungshan Institute ...
The Chinese Navy’s most numerous class of guided-missile destroyers can launch long-range hypersonic anti-ship missiles, state military media announced this week. A trailer released on Wednesday for a ...
The delivery of the first prototype hypersonic hardware to the Army is seen in 2021. (Spc. Karleshia Gater/Army) The U.S. Army’s first unit to receive hypersonic weapons will get a battery’s worth of ...
The U.S. Navy's expensive effort to install hypersonic missiles on three Zumwalt-class destroyers is two years behind schedule.
As the United States has fallen behind its adversaries in hypersonic weapons development, private-sector actors are attempting to help close the gap. The race for hypersonic weapons is on, and the ...
Amid what President Trump calls a "defense crisis," there was confusion during a Senate hearing to discuss the FY27 budget, when Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said his department's spending ...