The following is the April 24, 2025, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, The U.S. Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic ...

The United States has actively pursued the development of hypersonic weapons—maneuvering weapons that fly at speeds of at least Mach 5—as a part of its conventional prompt global strike ...

The Zircon’s speed is believed to be between Mach 8 and Mach 9, making it one of the fastest missiles ever made.

The Pentagon completed test flights of an unmanned aircraft traveling at more than five times the speed of sound, with a lift ...

With the Dark Eagle systems at the ready—outside the range of China’s A2/AD systems—the United States can launch a second ...

The MD-19 could become the testbed for a bevy of new technological innovations—at a time when the Americans are still struggling to get even rudimentary hypersonic weapons into their arsenal.

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 ...

Hypersonic weapons fly at between five and 10 times the speed of sound, and their ability to change course mid-flight makes it difficult to shoot them down. Over the past 20 years, China’s ...

The Army said working with the Navy of devising hypersonic weapons allows for more collaboration ... Pentagon tells military libraries to remove books about diversity, racism, gender May 10 ...

The Talon-A test vehicle will be used to carry hypersonic weapons systems during their development. Component makers could test engines, sensors and communications equipment aboard the reusable ...