Ballistic missiles are long-range weapons designed to deliver conventional or nuclear warheads at great speeds.

Iran is boasting that it has hypersonic missiles and says it already has begun firing the cutting-edge weapons at Israel.

There's more than one type of cruise missile used by the world's militaries, and they're typically separated by speed ... Mach 1. Supersonic missiles fly at Mach 1-5, and hypersonic missiles ...

In the wake of Iran’s massive missile retaliation against Israel, we take a look at Tehran’s formidable missile arsenal. From ...

The Houston-based startup successfully completed the first U.S. flight test of an exotic new type ... Hypersonic travel indicates travel at five times or greater than the speed of sound, while ...

Here’s what to know about the speed of supersonic flight, a type of travel that’s been inaccessible to civilians who want to experience it in an aircraft ever since the Concorde stopped flying ...

This type of speed had only been achieved ... the future X-plane series which can travel at hypersonic speeds. Apart from showing that airflow in supersonic combusting jet engines can be ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel presented Iran’s sophisticated ballistic missiles as a critical threat to ...

A self-propagating series of explosions, contained between the blades of a high-speed rotor ... so they're much happier at supersonic or hypersonic speeds where intake air can easily be compressed ...

UVA has several supersonic wind tunnels, including the UVA Supersonic Combustion Facility, which can simulate engine conditions for a hypersonic vehicle traveling at five times the speed of sound.