Russia was the earliest country to field multiple operational hypersonic weapons, and the Kremlin has long called them nearly impossible to stop. Only one,...
Summary and Key Points: DARPA and the U.S. Air Force are developing Next Generation Responsive Strike, a reusable hypersonic strike aircraft designed to fly...
The Pentagon plans to procure 10,000 low-cost cruise missiles and 12,000 hypersonic missiles between 2027 and 2029 — a wartime-style scaling effort driven by...
The Pentagon is dramatically expanding its missile procurement strategy as planners increasingly warn that future wars against countries like China could rapidly exhaust America’s...
Russia’s Avangard is the only operational hypersonic glide vehicle in service anywhere in the world. Developed from Soviet Project Albatross, which began in the...
Russia’s 3M22 Zircon is the third hypersonic missile to enter service with the Russian Armed Forces, following the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal and the Avangard intercontinental...