The US Air Force has tested a hypersonic cruise missile in the Pacific for the first time, in what analysts say is a signal to China that Washington still competes in a weapons arena where many ...

At the same time, their 5,000 mph-plus hypersonic speed would facilitate “prompt global strike” on non-mobile, high value targets like enemy command and control centers, missile silos and ...

Catching up. So why is hypersonic flight testing important? The Pentagon wants to close what it views as a technological gap with China, which US officials acknowledge has become the world's ...

In March 2024, Talon-A1 launched for its first powered test flight, reaching hypersonic speeds that didn’t quite make it to Mach 5.Unlike Talon-A1, Stratolaunch’s latest prototype, Talon-A2 is ...

The US Air Force has tested a hypersonic cruise missile in the Pacific for the first time, in what analysts say is a signal to China that Washington still competes in a weapons arena where many ...