Despite all of her technical prowess, Ford is faced with a harsh reality: over the last two decades, China’s hypersonic missile technology has far outpaced America’s. Beijing has “the world ...

UK scientists have collaborated with the US and private firms to successfully test hypersonic missile propulsion, the British Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Hypersonic missiles are ...

Hypersonic weapons are presented as a military game-changer, with programs appearing in defense budgets around the world. The first battlefield deployments of hypersonic weapons have failed to live up ...

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Even then, a hypersonic engine needs to operate at temperatures in the neighborhood of over 2,000 °C (3,632 °F). Even titanium alloys melt in that kind of heat.

Rocket Lab is becoming an even bigger player in the world of hypersonic technology. The militaries of the United States and the United Kingdom have both picked the California-based company as a ...

Western countries have trailed behind Russia and China in developing hypersonic weapons, expensive and difficult-to-produce systems able to travel upwards of five times the speed of sound ...

Anglo-American researchers have completed tests on a propulsion system that should power a cutting-edge hypersonic missile before the end of the decade. What about Europe? Over the course of six ...

The FTX-40 test, or “Stellar Banshee,” served as a validation for modern hypersonic missile tracking satellites, upgraded versions of the SM-6, Aegis’s ability to track hypersonic threats ...

In the five short years since focusing on the concept, Andrew Duggleby, chief technology officer and co-founder of the pioneering hypersonic propulsion systems developer Venus Aerospace ...