#hypersonic-weapons

#hypersonic-weapons

The Pentagon said in a release that it hopes to procure more than 10,000 low-cost cruise missiles over three years beginning in 2027, via firm-fixed-price production contracts "creating a pathway for rapid and repeatable production of highvolume, lethal strike capabilities." The department plans to begin buying test missiles from all four LCCM companies in June 2026, ahead of military assessments.

"They'll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built," Trump claimed during the announcement at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. According to Trump, the ship, the first of which will be named the USS Defiant, will be longer and larger than the World War II-era Iowa-class battleships and will be armed with hypersonic missiles, nuclear cruise missiles, rail guns, and high-powered lasers - all technologies that are in various stages of development by the Navy.

Some of them have gotten old and tired and obsolete, and we're going to go the exact opposite direction. He added, So, the battleships are gonna be armed, just in terms of guns and missiles at the highest level. They'll also have hypersonic weapons, many hypersonic weapons, state-of-the-art electric rail guns, and even high-powered lasers that you've been starting to read about. We have lasers where you aim the laser at a target, and it just wipes it out.

Beijing's engineers have reportedly designed a hypersonic aircraft carrier-essentially a large, super fast drone mothership that can deploy several more drones. It uses an variable oblique wing, a historic, experimental design that has one single wing that rotates depending on the aircraft's speed rather than fixed classical symmetrical wings in traditional planes. To laymen used to regular aircraft it may look bananas,

Castelion has raised a $350 million Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Altimeter Capital, aiming to transform the production of hypersonic missile systems.