Northrop’s IMU relies on advanced sensors to understand how a hypersonic weapon is moving through its environment, calculating where the weapon has traveled and where it needs to go.

At Mach 6, the SR-72 can cut across radar fields of view so quickly that establishing a continuous track becomes nearly ...

Private companies like Stratolaunch are developing tech to regain the edge in the hypersonic arms race with innovations like ...

After all, hypersonic weapons have been researched since the ... and countless others. His books include Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, Biohacked: China’s Race to Control ...

They are manoeuvrable weapons that can fly at speeds of at ... timelines for response by a nation under attack, says a 2017 book Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation published by RAND Corporation.

The United States has actively pursued the development of hypersonic weapons—maneuvering weapons that fly at speeds of at least Mach 5—as a part of its conventional prompt global strike ...

"I would say that there are drawings on the books to develop hypersonic weapons that could be available by 2018, although I don't think [that's likely]," Corke said. "I think that timeline is out ...

Over the course of his career that followed, he wrote a book on space vehicle design ... in a law requiring that an American hypersonic weapon be operational by October 2022.

The Department of Defense is funding at least eight programs aimed at equipping each of the military departments with hypersonic weapons by the end of the decade. Hypersonic systems are designed ...

Hypersonic weapons are frequently described as having unique, game-changing capabilities because they combine hypersonic speeds (more than five times the speed of sound, or Mach 5) with long-distance ...

With a new Gallium Nitride array, the AN/TPY-2 radar can now detect hypersonic weapons at greater ranges, earlier in the ...