As part of this effort, Japan is buying standoff weapons like the U.S.-made AGM-158 JASSM, which can be deployed from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) F-35s and F-15s. Additionally, in Jan.

An image of July 4, 2024, test of hypersonic weapon by Japan’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) of an HVGP test launch conducted on March 23, 2024. ATLA Image The State Department ...

The United States Is Catching Up in the Hypersonic Weapons Race - While military brass and defense policymakers worldwide are obsessed with hypersonic weapons, many ballistic missiles have flown ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. – The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center’s Aerophysics Research Facility, or ARF, fired a successful hypersonic shot Dec. 11 to test its new rainfield ...

Will Hypersonic Missiles Save the Zumwalt-class Stealth Destroyer? – In August 2023, HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division announced that it was awarded a $154.8 million contract modification for the ...

The guided-missile destroyer Zumwalt is being retrofitted with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon. (Gerald Herbert/AP) The U.S. Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the ...