WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - Castelion, a startup trying to build a hypersonic weapon for the Pentagon, tested its system for the first time, it told Reuters on Monday, as a growing group of small ...

Boeing has unveiled a new concept called the 'Revolver' launch system, designed to launch multiple hypersonic missiles from the back of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. This advanced launcher features ...

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, ...

Hermeus completed testing of their full system hypersonic ground Mk0 test plane. It is a complete system made in 6 months and tested in 37 days. The fully-integrated vehicle, Quarterhorse Mk 0 is a ...

The latest and final flight of the hypersonic missile built by Lockheed Martin was an end-to-end flight test. The Air Force has not said whether the test was successful or what its objectives were, ...

Hypersonic flight favors unmanned aircraft: the G-loads and heat push past human limits, pointing to optionally manned—or fully autonomous—air-dominance and recon platforms. Thats what a 7th ...

A major focus in missile development of the 21st century has been hypersonic research. Hypersonic flight is achieved when an object surpasses Mach 5 (3,836 mph), and getting it right is the Holy Grail ...

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 ...

US aerospace start-up Stratolaunch has completed the much-awaited first hypersonic flight with its reusable Talon-A vehicle. That inaugural flight took place in December, but was only revealed by the ...

The European Space Agency is throwing its weight behind a design effort for a hypersonic spaceplane, with hopes of getting the final idea airborne (and spaceborne) by 2031. The ESA is putting up ...

The United States successfully conducted a hypersonic missile defense test near Hawaii on Monday as Washington's adversaries are racing to field this type of superfast weapon. Newsweek reached out to ...