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The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center’s Aerophysics Research Facility, or ARF, fired a successful ...

The Japan Self-Defense Force recently tested the deployment of a developing hypersonic missile system that is designed to defend Tokyo’s islands from foreign warships. The Acquisition, Technology and ...

The U.S. military has just tested a new hypersonic missile that’s being dubbed the “Silent Killer,” capable of striking targets over 1,725 miles away with blistering speed and stealth. This test ...

Hypersonic test company Stratolaunch plans to attempt back-to-back flights faster than Mach 5 of two rocket-powered Talon-A aircraft in January using its Roc carrier platform and newly modified Boeing ...

Russia opened the door to sending hypersonic missiles to Venezuela with a defense official warning that Americans “may be in for some surprises.” Alexei Zhuravlyov, Russia’s parliamentary defense ...

Navigational warnings indicate that the United States has scheduled its first test of a nuclear-capable, but unarmed, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) after President Donald Trump ordered the ...

The U.S. military will launch an unarmed nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean overnight Nov. 4, in a pre-planned firing that marks the Pentagon's first weapons test since President Donald Trump ...

A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country’s southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy warhead to a remote impact zone nearly ...

Nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their arsenals, with France—a major U.S. military ally in NATO—recently test-firing an upgraded but unarmed nuclear missile. The medium-range, air-to-surface ...

North Korea raised tensions in Northeast Asia after warning of stronger military pushback as a U.S. aircraft carrier docked in South Korea. The threat followed a fresh missile test that splashed into ...