Meanwhile, the Air Force is moving full speed ahead with both its Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile and the resurrected Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon program, which was first initiated in 2018, ...

The funds will support the development of 50 early operational capability missiles, and the Navy could buy more if it’s ...

The global race for hypersonic dominance is accelerating at a pace that would have seemed like science fiction just a decade ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS Zumwalt sails in the Pacific, April 2022. (MC1 Peter Burghart/US Navy) The U.S. Navy's expensive effort to install ...

The Government Accountability Office lambasted the Pentagon for its haphazard approach to hypersonic missile development—leading to a per-unit cost of around $67 million and an anemic production rate.

DARPA is preparing to launch a new demonstrator program for a “revolutionary” hypersonic cruise missile, telling industry that the agency is seeking radical advances in speed, range and possibly ...

L3Harris Technologies has received a contract from the US Space Force's Space Development Agency to produce 18 Accelerated Missile Defense Tranche 3 satellites. The satellites, known as AMDT3 ...

The Navy is currently 24 months behind in its efforts to modernize three DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers to host the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic missile as part of its surface strike ...

The Navy is two years behind in its efforts to modernize destroyers that will first carry the service’s hypersonic missiles, a lag that has pushed back at-sea flight testing for the fearsome weapons ...

The Pentagon office responsible for weapons innovation is seeking a “revolutionary leap” in design for a faster and more maneuverable Next Generation Hypersonic Cruise Missile. In a “Request for ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama—Albany Engineered Composites (AEC) will provide a 3D-woven, composite aeroshell for the Lockheed Martin Next Generation Glide Body (NXGB), Lockheed announced on Aug. 10. The ...

The US Navy this week announced a “pivotal shift” in its future submarine force, and it’s a move analysts say provides important insights into how Washington would fight any possible conflict in the ...