TOKYO — Japan and the United States on Wednesday signed an arrangement to jointly develop a new type of missile defense system as the allies seek to defend against the growing threat of hypersonic weapons, which are possessed by China and Russia and being tested by North Korea. The project was initially agreed between Japan’s […]
A Senate Armed Services hearing turned heated this week when Sen. Angus King, chairman of the Strategic Forces subcommittee, laid into John Hill, deputy assistant defense secretary for space and missile defense, about why the Biden administration’s 2025 missile defense budget request falls far short on funding to maintain readiness against the growing threat of […]
Chinese organizations involved in developing hypersonic missiles and related technologies have benefited from American research, according to a report made public earlier this month by an Air Force think tank. “The PRC organizations with which U.S. researchers collaborate on hypersonics include not only actual military organizations, such as the National University of Defense Technology, but […]
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea successfully tested a solid-fuel engine for its new-type intermediate-range hypersonic missile, state media reported Wednesday, claiming a progress in efforts to develop a more powerful, agile missile designed to strike faraway U.S. targets in the region. A hypersonic missile is among an array of high-tech weapons systems that North […]
The Russian military struck Kyiv last week with its hypersonic Zircon missile, Ukrainian researchers said late Monday. If true, it would mark the first time Moscow has employed the Zircon, which Russia says has a range of well over 600 miles and can travel at nine times the speed of sound. Oleksandr Ruvin, director of […]
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