Next, we head to the Pacific Ocean. A U.S. hypersonic missile failed there—during its Wednesday test launch in Hawaii. Bloomberg reported that the misfire was due to a malfunction after the missile’s ignition.

The U.S. Air Force successfully tested a hypersonic missile that travelled five times the speed of sound off the Southern California coast May 14, following tests of similar weapons by China and Russia. The AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) was launched from a B-52H Stratofortress bomber by 419th Flight Test Squadron and the Global Power Bomber Combined Test […]

The U.S. Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)  announced Tuesday that they recently completed the country’s second successful in-flight test of a hypersonic cruise missile produced by Lockheed Martin.

Three world powers are arming themselves to combat a weapons system the Chinese Communist Party is developing. A $95 million arms sale was made from the United States to Taiwan to help defend the island from missiles. It’s the third purchase under the current president. Back in the spotlight is organ harvesting in China. A […]

Three world powers are arming themselves to combat a weapons system the Chinese Communist Party is developing. A $95 million arms sale was made from the United States to Taiwan to help defend the island from missiles. It’s the third purchase under the current president. Back in the spotlight is organ harvesting in China. A […]

Leaders of the AUKUS defense agreement have jointly announced they will cooperate in military upgrades. And their goal is to develop hypersonic missiles.

President Joe Biden, along with other leaders from the trilateral AUKUS international defense partnership, announced on April 5 the group will join in an effort to develop hypersonic missiles. The pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, known as AUKUS, was announced in September 2021. Its main piece is a plan to […]