The following is the Feb. 27, 2025, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, The U.S. Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic ...

There’s little doubt military industrial espionage is a long-running, two-way phenomenon between the U.S. and Russia.

The U.S. is in a race to field the capability and develop systems to defend against hypersonic missiles, which China and ...

hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs)—of which there are long-range and theater-range—and hypersonic cruise missiles (HCMs). HGVs are launched from rocket boosters into space and then reenter the ...

The crucial Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) program witnessed delays due to major issues in launcher and launch sequence, ...

Japan is ramping up its hypersonic weapons program amid mounting threats from China and North Korea, but technological gaps ...

Lockheed Martin spacecraft will support the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, tracking threats in the hypersonic ...

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 ...

The Japanese missile can evade defenses by traveling at more than five times the speed of sound and maneuvering within the atmosphere.

The US and Japan have agreed to work together to develop a defense system to defeat hypersonic missiles, according to the US Department of Defense. Hypersonic missiles are a daunting challenge and ...