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AUKUS Partners Sign Hypersonic Agreement

Monday, November 18th, 2024

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AUKUS Partners Sign Hypersonic Agreement

Hypersonic missile test at at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii in 2024. (Photo: U.S. Department of Defense)

The defense ministries of the three AUKUS allies announced a new agreement to share hypersonic testing facilities and information under the agreement's Pillar II efforts. The U.S. Defense Department, Australian Department of Defence and U.K. Ministry of Defense on Monday announced they signed an agreement to enter a Hypersonic Flight Test and Experimentation (HyFliTE) Project Arrangement (PA). This means they will “use each other’s testing facilities and share technical information to develop, test, and evaluate hypersonic systems,” the U.S. DoD…

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