As per GARA, the hypersonic vehicle can travel up to a range of 372 miles, and reach maximum trajectory altitude of 24 miles.
Boost-glide vehicles already present significant challenges for defenders and one loaded with various sub-payloads could ...
A promising technique for tracking boost-glide hypersonic vehicles involves detecting radio waves emitted by plasma in the wake. Passive detection would be a valuable capability, since existing ...
Hypersonic cruise missiles (HCM) and hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV) can fly at speeds exceeding Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound) and change course at random, making it extremely difficult ...
The air-launched ARRW is what is known as a hypersonic boost-glide vehicle weapon. The missile uses a rocket booster to ...
Using a trajectory similar to a skipping stone, the hypersonic glide vehicle can dive into and jump out of the atmosphere ...
Japan and the United States are planning to complete development of the next-generation missile defense system by the 2030s.
The test was intended to validate aspects of one of the Pentagon’s hypersonic glide vehicles in development, two of the people said. Hypersonic glide vehicles are launched from a rocket in the ...
A Chinese company has successfully tested a prototype plane which could one day travel at hypersonic speeds, whisking passengers from London to Sydney in just four hours. South China Morning Post ...
Along with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle which entered combat duty in 2019, the Zircon forms the centrepiece of Russia's hypersonic arsenal. Russia sees the weapons as a way to pierce ...
A new Chinese concept for an unpowered hypersonic boost-glide weapon loaded with different types of submunitions, including supersonic missiles and drones, has emerged. Boost-glide vehicles ...