America's enemies spent billions building stealth jets to dominate the skies, but the F-15EX Eagle II is proving that raw ...

The U.S. Air Force is channeling fresh funding toward a hypersonic missile compact enough for fighter jets to carry, reviving a weapon class that had stalled after earlier cancellation. The fiscal ...

The Los Angeles defence startup flew a demonstrator the size of an F-16 in March. A third aircraft is now in development. CEO AJ Piplica says the only way to build hypersonic aircraft at this pace is ...

Hypersonic plane startup Hermeus Corp. raised $350 million in a funding round to scale up its efforts to build the fastest uncrewed aircraft ever for the US Department of Defense. The Atlanta-based ...

While hypersonic missiles powered by ramjets or other advanced propulsion systems offer significant performance advantages, glide bodies are mechanically much simpler to build and deploy. As the name ...

The thesis is straightforward and increasingly visible across DoD budget documents and procurement actions: U.S. hypersonic weapons, vehicles, and propulsion systems are advancing through development ...

In both tests, the experimental autonomous aircraft was dropped over the Pacific Ocean from Stratolaunch’s massive captive carry aircraft known as Roc. The rocket-powered Talon-A then accelerated to ...

Using a subscale demonstrator, jet turbine manufacturer GE Aerospace successfully ignited a dual-mode ramjet engine using rotating detonation combustion – a technique the company says holds promise ...

Japan has taken another major step toward the future of hypersonic air travel, successfully testing a ramjet engine system designed for an experimental aircraft capable of reaching Mach 5 speeds. The ...