More recently, Russia used hypersonic missiles in its attacks on Ukraine. "And China tested one of its own. So there's been a lot of investment in improving hypersonic technologies," said Khare, head ...

Could a flight across the world take just two hours? It might, if we master hypersonic travel — and a group of Japanese ...

The Boundary Layer Transition 1B (BOLT-1B) experiment, a joint research project of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and the German ...

The U.S. Army and U.S. Navy are jointly pursuing the weapon, which includes the C-HGB (Common-Hypersonic Glide Body). The C-HGB consists of the weapon’s warhead, guidance system, cabling, and thermal ...

A self-propagating series of explosions, contained between the blades of a high-speed rotor, promises a leap in power and efficiency during hypersonic flight – provided this radical new engine can be ...

MOJAVE, Calif. – The U.S., Russia and China are in the middle of a hypersonic arms race — and right now, the U.S. is losing. But private companies are stepping up to develop hypersonic tech that ...

The Taiwan Strait remains one of the most militarily consequential waterways on Earth. Barely 110 miles wide at its narrowest ...

Venus Aerospace just took one giant leap toward hypersonic travel. The Houston-based startup successfully completed the first U.S. flight test of an exotic new type of engine, capable of enabling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The delivery of the first prototype hypersonic hardware to the Army is seen in 2021. (Spc. Karleshia Gater/Army) Following a ...

Japanese researchers and engineers are the latest entrants into the ever-quickening race toward commercial flight at hypersonic speeds. According to AeroTime, in April 2026 at the JAXA Kakuda Space ...