Hypersonic Strategy Digest

NASA’s Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel delivers continuous-flow testing across Mach 0.2–3.5 via three dedicated sections, serving industry, DOD, and...

• Affordable mass production: IAF developing low-cost ALCM with private partner, priced like PGMs for high-volume output
• Domestic innovation:...

Former NASA lead propulsion engineer Tim Conners sees the Blackbird revival as an engine testbed, not an aerodynamics platform.

• CFD covers...

Stratolaunch's Boeing 777 acquisition expands its carrier fleet to three aircraft, raising overall flight capacity 35% and enabling parallel missions...

India's expanding layered missile defense, including recent AD-1 and AD-2 tests, risks creating a false sense of security that could embolden...

The U.S. Navy is expanding fleet air and missile defense through simultaneous SPY-6 radar rollout and SM-6 interceptor production growth.

• SPY-6...

Live-fire SINKEX events like Atlantic Thunder provide controlled validation of maritime strikes through sensor-equipped targets.

• Damage assessment:...

China's Starlink response splits into two tracks with sharply different results.

• Guowang (state/military) remains secretive and slow, launching...

Hypersonic glide vehicles with unpredictable post-boost trajectories are forcing the U.S. Space Force to move missile warning and tracking from...

Hyundai Rotem is expanding into methane engines for reusable launch vehicles, ducted ramjets for long-range missiles, and hypersonic engines with...

The Battle of Agincourt showed how disciplined forces with innovative tactics and superior weaponry could overcome numerical superiority, mirroring...

Unsteady pressure-sensitive paint delivered time-resolved surface pressure distributions across the entire SLS vehicle at resolutions never previously...

Stratolaunch收购波音777-200ER作为第三架空射平台，预计2027年服役并增加35%飞行容量。

• 容量提升：支持同时开展多地试验活动，缓解Roc与747的调度压力。
• 灵活性增强：利用常规机场基础设施，适合中型任务并提升地理部署能力。
• 研发加速：满足MACH-TB等政府客户的高频测试需求，缩短高超声速验证周期。

The U.S. Army signed prototype agreements with Anduril, Castelion, Lockheed Martin, Mach Industries, and RTX for PrSM Increment 4 missiles that launch...

Boeing's F/A-XX win under NGAD delivers a >$20B contract for multiple test aircraft to replace Super Hornets and Growlers in the 2030s alongside the...

A new pressure-sensitive paint from The University of Manchester cuts temperature sensitivity by 25% to 0.3% per °C, yielding pressure maps in Mach 5+...

Anduril’s Barracuda is the first WOSA-verified system for mass production, with the company highlighting the open architecture advance after detailed US military assessment.

The X-15 delivered foundational data on aerodynamics, structures, controls, and human factors for manned hypersonic flight across 199 missions from...

North Korea's September 20, 2026 test of the Hwasong-11Ma-1 established a 908 km range with a warhead-glider covering most of the flight.

• Confirmed...

North Korea conducted its first combined drills this month using kamikaze drones, nuclear-capable missiles, rocket launchers, and long-range artillery...