Hypersonic weapons travel beyond Mach 5 ... The Zumwalt was envisioned as providing land-attack capability with an Advanced Gun System with rocket-assisted projectiles to open the way for Marines ...

Of all the government boondoggles, the United States Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyer might be the silliest waste of money ever ...

The Pentagon is in the process of fitting the first-ever shipborn hypersonic missile system to ... where two inactive gun turrets were once positioned. The turrets had never been activated due ...

Photos showed the Zumwalt's main deck gun mounts were removed. The cannons will be replaced with four all-up round canisters containing three hypersonic missiles each. These come in addition to ...

Spokesman says ‘it confirmed our ability to detect, track and engage a target missile in flight, increasing our readiness to defend’.

The United States has actively pursued the development of hypersonic weapons—maneuvering weapons that fly at speeds of at least Mach 5—as a part of its conventional prompt global strike ...

the new technology could reduce launch costs to a fraction of the current price People could soon be launched into space using a type of hypersonic rail gun, as Chinese scientists and engineers ...