and/or time-critical threats [such as road-mobile missiles] when other forces are unavailable, denied access, or not preferred.” Critics, on the other hand, contend that hypersonic weapons lack ...

Years later, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a state-run institution, broke the news of the groundbreaking hypersonic flight on a social media post in December 2024, according to reporting by the ...

The hypersonic missile’s reported capabilities put US bases in Guam within reach, though Kim Jong-un insists it is purely defensive.

Donald Trump was expected to approve an Israel-style “Iron Dome” to protect America from hypersonic missile attacks. An ...

Montgomery and Yoshihara caution that US deployment of hypersonic strike capabilities could threaten China's strategic nuclear arsenal, placing China's nuclear forces at higher risk of disarming ...

Hypersonic developer Stratolaunch has received a substantial US government contract to expand testing of its reusable Talon-A prototype, including testing related to missile-defence initiatives.