Warnings of a Russian hypersonic weapon that the U.S. can't defend against may have had you running for the bomb shelter last week. But what, exactly, is this weapon, and how does it work?

Boeing's X-51A WaveRider — a jet-fueled, air-breathing hypersonic rocket developed for the U.S. Air Force — went hypersonic during a recent test off the Southern California coast, flying at ...

But with a hypersonic missile, such as the technology being tested on the WaveRider, “the attack would have been cut to just over 12 minutes,” Richard Hallion, a former Air Force senior ...

An Air Force Flight Test Center B-52 Stratofortress from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., carries an X-51A Waverider prior to the scramjet’s first hypersonic flight test on March 26, 2010. X-51A ...

China and Russia now have multiple hypersonic missiles that are faster and more maneuverable than anything the U.S. possesses. These are the 13 most fearsome.

China's missile DF-17 missiles participate in a military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on October 1, 2019. Chinese scientists have claimed to have made a breakthrough in hypersonic ...

Article Summary: The X-51 Waverider’s 2013 hypersonic flight represented a milestone in military aviation, reaching Mach 5.1 using a scramjet engine after launching from a B-52H. Although it ...

BEIJING—A test of a Chinese hypersonic wave-rider on Aug. 3 was in part aimed at demonstrating a new thermal conduction system and booster-payload separation under high dynamic pressure.

The model predicts how fuel droplets and gas particles behave in detonation waves. These waves occur in rocket engines, ...

Due to the vehicle being "hypersonic" the plane is likely to move five times faster than the speed of sound and can travel higher than most commercial flights, reports the Daily Mail.Should the ...

The U.S., Russia and China are in the middle of a hypersonic arms race — and right now, the U.S. is losing. But private companies are stepping up to develop hypersonic tech that shifts the edge ...

Passengers traveling on the hypersonic jet won’t just be flying faster — they’ll also be going higher, reaching up to 110,000 feet, which will allow them to see the curvature of Earth.