The U.S. Navy's expensive effort to install hypersonic missiles on three Zumwalt-class destroyers is two years behind ...

The Government Accountability Office lambasted the Pentagon for its haphazard approach to hypersonic missile development—leading to a per-unit cost of around $67 million and an anemic production rate.

The U.S. Navy is now two years behind schedule in adding Conventional Prompt Strike ...

The U.S. Army has confirmed that it deployed its Dark Eagle hypersonic missile system ...

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 ...

The US military is reportedly considering sending its long-range hypersonic missile to the Middle East — to possibly strike ballistic missile launchers embedded in Iran. The request, which was made by ...

The guided-missile destroyer Zumwalt arrived at HII in Pascagoula, Miss., Aug. 19 to undergo a modernization period. (HII) The guided-missile destroyer Zumwalt, which arrived at its new home port in ...

The Army said it’s on track to field the first US hypersonic weapon — a ground-launched missile called the Dark Eagle — by the end of the month, but the system still hasn’t proven it would be ...

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 engineering of next-gen weapons and defense systems is a science built around speed. In 2018, Russia made headlines when President Vladimir Putin revealed the country’s hypersonic missile system, ...