The Defense Innovation Unit achieved a successful suborbital launch of a hypersonic test platform that demonstrated sustained ...

The next generation of airborne weapons will undoubtedly be hypersonic. Already a number of nations are playing around with the idea, some have a few in their inventory, and just one claims to have ...

A recent flight test of a prototype of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept set an endurance record for scramjet engines, the head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency told ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) successfully launched its Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) scramjet missile last week. The free flight test of the missile was ...

Raytheon Missiles & Defense and Northrop Grumman successfully test flew an air-breathing hypersonic missile on September 20, 2021. Part of a program for DARPA and the US Air Force, the Hypersonic ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) successfully tested the hypersonic weapon it has in development. That weapon, the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, just made its ...

“Breaking Mach 9.6 with an air-breathing engine wasn’t just a speed stunt. It confirmed that scramjets can operate where rockets once had the field to themselves,” said Harry J. Kazianis, citing the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Air Force has provided the first real look at a future hypersonic air-breathing cruise missile, a type weapon it hopes to ...

The Pentagon took another step toward speeding up hypersonic testing. The Defense Innovation Unit ...