DefenceTalkEven as the Pentagon hustles to ensure that its defenses keep pace with North Korea’s fast-growing rocket program, US officials increasingly are turning attention to a new generation of missile threat. These weapons under development by China and Russia — as well as by the United States — can fly at many times the speed […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pentagon-looks-to-counter-rivals-hypersonic-missiles-71476/

DefenceTalkReports suggest Russia is preparing to test a hypersonic missile that would be almost impossible to intercept. The Zircon rocket will be capable of traveling up to six-times the speed of sound. Russia’s planned 7,400 kilometer per hour (4,600 mile per hour) hypersonic missile is such a “quantum leap in technology,” it could potentially render […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russias-hypersonic-missile-ratchets-up-arms-race-69632/

DefenceTalkR&D work on the hypersonic version of the Russian-Indian BrahMos missile will start approximately in 2022, Marketing Director of the Russian-Indian BrahMos Aerospace Company Praveen Pathak told TASS on Thursday. A prototype of the BrahMos hypersonic missile is expected to be manufactured in 2024, the marketing director added. “This will be another missile with a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-india-prototype-brahmos-hypersonic-missile-67582/