There’s little doubt military industrial espionage is a long-running, two-way phenomenon between the U.S. and Russia.

If China can pull off large-scale production of such a plane, it would revolutionize international air travel as we know it.

The following is the Feb. 11, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Hypersonic Weapons: Background and Issues for ...

The Blackbird, which was retired in 1999, was the fastest jet-propelled aircraft ever built, capable of reaching Mach 3.32, or 2,193 miles per hour. The Venus Stargazer hypersonic jet is being ...

The award to Concordia Technologies was made under an MDA program tied not to a specific system, but to “advancing the ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow ...

Stratolaunch, which announced the award Jan. 9, hopes to ... will conduct five MACH-TB flight tests. Talon-A launched for the first time in March 2024, reaching near-hypersonic speeds.

Long-range HGVs are designed for strategic global strike missions and can operate at speeds exceeding Mach 15. In contrast, theater-range hypersonic weapons are designed for shorter-range regional ...

Rocket Lab announced on Jan. 7 that it will be a part of a team, led by defense contractor Kratos, for the the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) 2.0, which is tasked ...

A Chinese start-up has said its superfast drone – capable of reaching four times the speed of sound – will make its first flight next year as military hypersonic technology trickles down to ...