A B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 419th Flight Test Squadron takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, California, in August 2020. The aircraft conducted a captive-carry flight test of the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon. A former Lockheed ...

BARCELONA (AP) — Iran is boasting that it has hypersonic missiles and says it already has begun firing the cutting-edge weapons at Israel. There is no evidence that Iran has unleashed the missiles, and experts are skeptical of the claim. But the use of ...

India announced Monday it had successfully conducted its first test of a long-range hypersonic missile, revealing a previously unknown weapons program of the government’s Defense Research and Development Organization, essentially India’s version of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Vikram Mittal is a contributor who covers aerospace and defense. In this photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, Russian ...

While the prospect of hypersonic travel is exciting, there are several challenges to overcome. The Stargazer is estimated to cost $33 million and will have a limited passenger capacity of 12. There are also potential issues with sonic booms over populated ...

The nation's hypersonic weapons have been boosted by a $756 million U.S. Army contract for additional capabilities to a missile designed to travel at least five times the speed of sound. Army chiefs have been working with Lockheed Martin, a global ...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Yemen's Houthi rebels claim to have a new, hypersonic missile in their arsenal, Russia's state media reported Thursday, potentially raising the stakes in their ongoing attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and surrounding ...

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has observed test-flights of hypersonic missiles and underscored the need to bolster the country’s nuclear war deterrent

A live AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon was photographed on a B-52H currently stationed at Andersen AFB for a Bomber Task Force deployment. The U.S. Air Force just published some really interesting photos from Guam, showing a live (yellow-band ...

Speed is paramount in designing missiles, so engineers have worked for years to improve how fast a missile can fly. The goal is to strike a target without warning, so the faster an object, the harder it is to intercept. Hypersonic missiles are classified ...