In a major defense milestone, the US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG-91) has successfully completed a simulated engagement with a live hypersonic missile in the ...

Hypersonic missile technology is such a technology. Hypersonic weapons are classified as weapons that can travel five times as fast as the speed of sound or faster. There are 11 countries ...

Hypersonic missiles travel at a speed Mach 5, or at least five times the speed of sound in the upper atmosphere. However, the main feature of a hypersonic missile is its maneuvrability, meaning its ...

The delivery of the first prototype hypersonic hardware to soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. (Photo by Spc. Karleshia Gater/US Army) ...

The US Navy sent an Arleigh Burke destroyer to Hawaii late in March to conduct tests on the vessel’s ability to track and respond to hypersonic missile threats. The test involved a simulated Standard ...

U.S. Army photo The U.S. Army is expected to soon deploy its first hypersonic missile system. The plan is to conduct one more test of the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon in December before its ...

The KD-21 resembles Russia’s Kinzhal missile, with high-speed, steep-angle descent making it difficult to intercept ... that the Chinese aeroballistic versions of the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal with the index KD ...

Skeptics question what the platform brings to the table in terms of new operational capacities. Hypersonic weapons are regarded as a game changer in global military affairs – a platform that could ...

The YJ-21 hypersonic missile – which has a conical warhead similar to the Russian Kh-47 Kinzhal – has an estimated range of 1,000km to 1,500km (621-932 miles) with an average speed of Mach 6 ...

Named after the city of Perm in the western part of Russia‘s Ural mountain range, the submarine will be the first to carry the Tsirkon hypersonic missile. The additional armament will expand the ...