Aerospace & Defense
NASA’s X-43A, a 12-foot unmanned lifting body with a hydrogen scramjet and no moving parts, flew three times: the first was blown up in...
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NASA’s X-43A, a 12-foot unmanned lifting body with a hydrogen scramjet and no moving parts, flew three times: the first was blown up in...
NASA built three X-43As under its Hyper-X program for about $230 million, and none was meant to be recovered. A B-52 carried each one...
The DF-26 alone could force U.S. carriers to operate thousands of miles offshore, where a carrier air wing can't strike without non-stealthy aerial refuelers...
The old Kirov-class carried 20 P-700 Granit missiles. The rebuilt Admiral Nakhimov carries up to 80 in new vertical launch cells, compatible with the...
Raytheon and the Navy are now examining whether all three ships can swap their AN/SPY-3 radars for the AN/SPY-6(V)3 already going into the rest...
On 16 November 2004 a 12-foot NASA research aircraft separated from a booster at almost Mach 10 over the Pacific, lit a hydrogen-fueled scramjet,...
NASA's Hyper-X program ran 8 years and cost roughly $230,000,000, and it produced exactly 3 flights of the X-43A. The first ended with the...
Withdrawn in the late nineties after a short career, the Kirov-class ship waited years for a contract, then years more for funding. The hull...
Castelion, a Torrance, California startup, aims to keep its Blackbeard hypersonic missile below $500,000 per round. A Lockheed Martin PAC-3 MSE interceptor costs more...
Japan's Ministry of Defense intends to begin developing an underwater-launched hypersonic missile under its fiscal 2027 program. The disclosure sat among more than 150...