Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 Son of Blackbird or “Darkstar” aims to replace the SR-71 with hypersonic ISR—and possibly strike—using a turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) that blends a turbofan for ...

On September 3, during a large military parade in Beijing, a few trucks rolled through Tiananmen Square carrying camouflaged ...

Hitting a target with a missile anywhere in the world in less than an hour – that’s the Pentagon’s goal with its ongoing development of hypersonic weapons. Moving from the experimental phase to ...

GE Aerospace tested its solid-fuel ramjet system at supersonic speeds on a Starfighter F-104 over Kennedy Space Center, a ...

YJ-20 hypersonic anti-ship missile is reviewed at China's V-Day military parade on September 3, 2025. Photo: Screenshot from ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Lockheed Martin team, an ...

As nations across our planet are striving to strengthen their defense capabilities, hypersonic weapons are considered to be a ...

The air-breathing weapon’s expected appearance at the WWII commemorative parade will be a global public debut for the ...

Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) have been flown by Venus Aerospace. They use continuous detonation waves for propulsion and provide 15% efficiency gains (in specific impulse or fuel consumption) ...

Russia launched a Zircon hypersonic missile and staged bomber strikes during Zapad 2025 drills with Belarus in the Barents Sea and Baltic region.

Glinting in the autumn sun on a parade ground in Beijing, the People's Liberation Army missiles moved slowly past the crowd on a fleet of giant camouflaged lorries. Needle-sharp in profile, measuring ...

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 conventional.