hypersonics

The Navy awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Raytheon Technologies [RTX] $116 million in contracts on March 27 to start developing anti-ship air-launched hypersonic weapons that can be based on aircraft […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is preparing to shift its hypersonic missile defense effort analysis to hardware development after final reviews, the director said recently. The program, called Glide Phase […]

The Navy’s FY ‘24 budget request revealed the service’s plans to procure 64 hypersonic weapon rounds for $3.6 billion over the next five years.  The Navy is starting with seeking […]

SAN DIEGO– Two Navy researchers last month outlined some major limitations on adding and using hypersonic weapons., focused on physics limitations combined with expense. “So there is an advantage to […]

The Navy is not currently considering adding hypersonic missiles to Large Unmanned Surface Vehicles (LUSV), but the service may consider that after initial testing from the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) in […]

The Navy is planning to conduct a hypersonic missile test launch off the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) by December 2025, an official said recently. “So timeline-wise…we’re supposed to do a test […]

The Navy awarded HII [HII] a $10.5 million contract on Jan. 6 to plan the modernization work that will install the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic weapons on the Zumwalt-class […]

The Missile Defense Agency awarded Raytheon Technologies [RTX] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] firm-fixed-price modifications to extend the current refinement of their hypersonic missile defense concepts for the Glide Phase Interceptor […]

A Navy official last week admitted the cost of hypersonic weapon development is too expensive and the existing industrial base is too small for the military services to not work […]

A top Navy official said last week the service is confident they will field hypersonic weapons on both a Zumwalt-class destroyer and Virginia-class submarine later this decade despite time pressures. […]