North American Aviation’s X-15 rocket plane reached 4,520 mph and climbed to 354,200 feet during a program that ran from 1959 ...

China has surpassed the US in the race to develop practical scramjet-powered land-based systems, ...

The United States Air Force is building a fleet of uncrewed combat drones designed to fly alongside its most advanced manned ...

Germany has awarded Polaris Spaceplanes a contract to develop and flight test a two-stage ...

Hypersonic weapons promise unmatched speed and reach, but they are held back by a fundamental engineering problem: propulsion ...

"Hypersonic" refers to speeds over Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. That's approximately 3,800 miles per hour, a pace that could take you all the way around the equator in less time than it ...

Wave Motion co-founders James Penna and Finn van Donkelaar show off their company’s Jet Gun prototype and test projectiles in the back of a box truck parked at Seattle’s Pioneer Square. (GeekWire ...

GE tested atmospheric test of launched airbreathing system (ATLAS) Flight Test Vehicle which marking a major milestone in advancing solid fuel ramjet (SFRJ) propulsion technology. Solid fuel ramjets ...

Equipping the Su-57 with hypersonic missiles would be a significant upgrade for the aircraft. However, multiple questions remain, including how many hypersonic missiles the Su-57 could carry. Russia’s ...

Pentagon tests weapon designed to "quickly destroy" global targets within hours. Nov. 17, 2011 — -- Should President Obama want to strike any target in the world from the homeland in just a ...

Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) is gearing up for an upcoming launch that underscores its growing role in U.S. defense and ...

Traveling at 5-times the speed of sound, skipping off the boundary of the upper atmosphere and descending upon enemy targets with unprecedented speed, emerging hypersonic weapons promise to massively ...