hypersonic missile

The U.S. Navy has officially announced that its growing fleet of littoral combat ships (LCSs) will be armed with Norway’s Naval Strike Missile, an over-the-horizon anti-ship platform already in service in Norway’s Navy. Last month, SOFREP reported that the same missile platform is also being converted to sit within the F-35’s internal weapons bays, allowing […]

Although the U.S. reportedly tested an operational hypersonic flight vehicle in cooperation with Australia last year, statements made by Air Force Materiel Command commander, Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, on Tuesday seem to indicate that America is significantly behind both Russia and China in the race to field capable hypersonic platforms. Hypersonic velocities, or speeds that exceed […]

In recent years, both China and Russia have begun deploying ballistic missiles that were developed with one specific target in mind: America’s massive super carriers. As the most potent means of American force projection, Nimitz and Ford class super carriers provide the U.S. with a platform to launch air strikes from aircraft like the Super […]

For months now, the U.S. Navy has been scrambling to find ways to increase the operational range of the aircraft employed on American Ford and Nimitz class supercarriers. Despite the variety of programs underway, the catalyst for each has been the same: the threat posed by advanced anti-ship ballistic missiles being fielded by national level […]

The Russian military successfully test-fired a new, nuclear-capable hypersonic missile which was announced by President Putin earlier this month. Putin showed video graphic where nuclear missiles were raining down on the state of Florida in the United States. The country’s defence ministry released video footage showing the missile detaching from a fighter jet and leaving […]

United States and Australian defense officials conducted a joint test of a new missile platform capable of reaching hypersonic speeds earlier this month.  The test featured the new HiFiRe Scramjet vehicle, which is said to be able to carry payloads at speeds in excess of six thousand miles per hour.  A missile platform capable of […]

Can one missile really destroy an aircraft carrier? According to speculation about the Russian Zircon hyper-sonic missile that may be true. Reports are that Russia is expected to soon begin producing their 3M22 Zircon, a hyper-sonic missile that can travel at a rate of over five times the speed of sound. With a range of […]

Can one missile really destroy an aircraft carrier? According to speculation about the Russian Zircon hyper-sonic missile that may be true. Reports are that Russia is expected to soon begin producing their 3M22 Zircon, a hyper-sonic missile that can travel at a rate of over five times the speed of sound. With a range of […]