The following is the Feb. 11, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Hypersonic Weapons: Background and Issues for ...

There’s little doubt military industrial espionage is a long-running, two-way phenomenon between the U.S. and Russia.

Challenging the Strategic Necessity of High-Speed Arms The United States has been exploring research and development of hypersonic weapons technologies for decades. Historically, such funding has been ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The equation is clear, meaning if China has an arsenal of operational hypersonic weapons and the U.S. simply does not, approaching U.S ...

Japan has long-standing territorial disputes with both China and Russia, leading to multiple standoffs over islands.

The U.S. Department of Defense has disclosed that it’s still unclear about the lethal effects of the hypersonic missile that’s at the center of the Army’s Dark Eagle Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW ...

Japan is ramping up its hypersonic weapons program amid mounting threats from China and North Korea, but technological gaps ...

hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs)—of which there are long-range and theater-range—and hypersonic cruise missiles (HCMs). HGVs are launched from rocket boosters into space and then reenter the ...

UDRI research in this area focuses on aerospace vehicles capable of sustained flight at hypersonic speeds. UDRI is currently conducting research and development in materials and structures for ...

California-based space company Rocket Lab will launch more hypersonic test vehicles for the U.S. Military, as the Department of Defense (DOD) continues to invest in hypersonic technology.