The acquisition plans, detailed April 3, are a component of the country’s €14.8 billion ($16.1 billion) increase in defense spending between 2022 and 2025.

Spending over a 4-year period between fiscal '24-'27 on development and procurement across all five hypersonic weapon programs will total nearly $11.9 billion.

When the U.S. Space Development Agency’s first ten satellites become operational, it will mark the start of a massive change in the Pentagon’s architecture.

Raytheon installed a software upgrade on the SM-6 Dual II since a May 2021 setback, and it worked.

The awards come nearly seven months after the U.S. Air Force selected Raytheon for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) operational prototyping program.

The South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration says its KF-21 flight-test program has entered the weapon-release phase,

The industry team will build and test an airbreathing propulsion subsystem for the proposed DeepStrike-Extended Range concept.

The work eventually could lead to the development of a highly modular electronic attack pod for either escort or standoff jamming operations.