The Boundary Layer Transition 1B (BOLT-1B) experiment, a joint research project of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and the German ...

February 13 2025, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced its secretive Aerospace Projects Office (APO) is developing a large hypersonic bomber prototype as part of the Next ...

India announced Monday it had successfully conducted its first test of a long-range hypersonic missile, revealing a previously unknown weapons program of the government’s Defense Research and ...

The University of Virginia (UVA) School of Engineering and Applied Science is taking a major step in ultra-high-temperature ceramics research by establishing a pioneering electromagnetic levitation ...

A B-52H Stratofortress takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to conduct a test of the AGM-183A Instrumented Measurement Vehicle 2 prototype. (Matt Williams/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — House ...

A European defense technology organization has kicked off a €110 million ($116 million) three-year study to define the concept of a hypersonic missile interceptor proposed by a 13-member consortium ...

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, ...

MADRID—The European industry consortium behind the European Hypersonic Defense (EU HYDEF) endoatmospheric interceptor project has revealed its concept for the first time. Work is still underway on the ...

A common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, at approximately 10:30 p.m. local time on March 19, 2020. US Navy Photo The House Armed Services ...

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 ...

The Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation and Spanish Missile Systems signed a contract on the Hypersonic Defence Interceptor Study in Bonn, Germany, on 31 October 2023. (Diehl Defence) The ...