Australia will acquire greater long-range strike capability across the air, land and maritime domains, including Tomahawk cruise missiles for Royal Australian Navy's Hobart class destroyers, to "enhance Australia's ability to deter and respond to potential security challenges".
The U.S. Navy' Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) successfully conducted a test of the Second Stage Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) on August 25th in Promontory, Utah as part of the development of the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) offensive hypersonic strike capability and the Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW).
The trials of the Tsirkon hypersonic missile will be completed this year, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko said during the single military hardware acceptance day.
At Sea Air Space 2021, the naval defense exposition held near Washington DC, Boeing unveiled a new hypersonic cruise missile concept artist rendering know as HyFly 2 for carrier-based strike fighter.
Russia’s Tsirkon (NATO reporting name: SS-N-33) hypersonic missile will be test-launched to its maximum range from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate (Admiral Gorshkov class) soon, a source in the defense industry told TASS at the MAKS 2021 airshow.
The Project 22350 frigate Admiral Gorshkov has successfully test-fired a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile from the White Sea against a ground target located on the coast of the Barents Sea.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is developing a concept to protect the US, its deployed forces, and allies against regional hypersonic threats using a multi- layered solution to defend against the next generation of hypersonic glide vehicles.
The Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman team successfully conducted a significant live fire hypersonic strike system test in support of the U.S. Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) and U.S. Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) programs.
The state trials of the Tsirkon hypersonic missile from the Project 22350 frigate Admiral Gorshkov will start in June, two sources in Russia’s defense industry told TASS.
The Russian Navy Northern Fleet’s Project 22350 lead frigate Admiral Gorshkov has started to sail to Severodvinsk in north Russia, the Defense Ministry’s press office said. This is likely for the qualification and acceptance phase of the Tsirkon hypersonic missile...
