The FTX-40 test, or "Stellar Banshee," served as a validation for modern hypersonic missile tracking satellites, upgraded versions of the SM-6, Aegis's ability to track hypersonic threats, and a new ...

The first live-fire test took place on Jun. 28, in what the DoD also described as an “end-to-end flight test” of the hypersonic missile from the Pacific Missile Range in Kauai, Hawaii. “The test ...

Just over a year after the first inert drop of the new Stand-in Attack Weapon, or SiAW, Northrop Grumman announced on Dec. 11 that another separation test had been completed from an F-16 Fighting ...

GYEONGJU, South Korea - President Donald Trump on Thursday morning said he directed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, an apparent attempt to flex ...

The delivery of the first prototype hypersonic hardware to soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. (Photo by Spc. Karleshia Gater/US Army) The U.S. Army has scheduled a test of its ...

The inert SiAW missile was released from an F-16C over the Gulf of Mexico in early November, well before its delivery was announced. The U.S. Air Force has just announced that last month, on Nov. 7, ...

The U.S. Army and Navy have conducted a successful, end-to-end test of the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) as the services look to field similar versions of the system. The Dec. 12 test, conducted ...

Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons — as President Donald Trump called for last week — would be unnecessary, costly, undermine nonproliferation efforts, and empower the nation’s adversaries to ...

What You Need to Know: Russia’s recent changes to its nuclear doctrine and tests of the Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile are raising concerns about a potential escalation in the Ukraine ...

What You Need to Know: Russia’s modification of its nuclear doctrine to potentially include conventional attacks on Russian soil as justification for a nuclear response has raised global concerns.