Unlike other advanced weapons systems in America’s arsenal—especially unlike other hypersonic weapons—the Mako is relatively affordable.

The Ground-Based Midcourse Defence (GMD) system, widely regarded as the backbone of US missile defence, is designed to ...

Reports are growing of a weapon that could threaten even the most advanced enemy aircraft, with hypersonic speeds posing ...

US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for an "Iron Dome for America", borrowing the name of Israel's vaunted missile defence system. "We need to immediately begin the ...

President Donald Trump has called for an expansive, next-generation missile defense shield for the mainland United States, ...

This new initiative expands upon decades of U.S. missile defense efforts, building on technologies from the Reagan-era ...

The Rudram is a series of supersonic and hypersonic air-to-surface ground attack and anti-radiation missiles in development ...

The executive order explicitly notes that the policy aims to achieve what was left unfinished by Reagan’s Strategic Defense ...

In short: fast. It also represents an area where US military research and development has been caught flat-footed. Defense startup Castelion, a developer of hypersonic missile systems, announced a ...