After years of wrangling and political discussion, Germany’s parliament has moved ahead with the procurement of weapons to arm its leased fleet of Heron TP uncrewed air systems (UAS). 

A hypersonic projectile fired by an electromagnetic railgun set a new distance record during a March test, flying 109 nm at a speed around Mach 5, a U.S. Navy official said on April 6. 

The U.S. military’s next generation intercontinental ballistic missile has a name: the LGM-35A Sentinel.

The AUKUS defense pact between Australia, the UK and the U.S. is to expand its scope to hypersonic weapons.

DARPA has confirmed new details of a previously secret test of the Lockheed Martin version of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, a scramjet-powered cruise missile demonstrator. 

Concerned about the military build-up in the Indo-Pacific and threats against Australia, Canberra is spending A$3.5 billion ($2.6 billion) to accelerate deliveries of two types of missile.

U.S. Army and Navy officials plan to buy around 31 prototypes of an upgraded version of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body and incorporate a data link during the next two to three years, a new solicitation document says.

The South Korean Ministry of National Defense said tests verified the large solid-fuel engine, fairing separation, stage separation and upper-stage attitude control technology.