Defense manufacturer Kratos announced this week it is developing a new hypersonic drone system. The Round Rock, Texas, based company also said it broke ground on a state-of-the-art laboratory and testing facility in Indiana to support that development.

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, drones and other armament formations pass during the military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025.

China is fast-tracking potential space-travel technology designed to simulate speeds of Mach 30, a paradigm changing velocity more than five times the speed of the hypersonic threshold considered to be Mach 5. Hypersonic weapons are essentially “here ...

Kratos is not just using its own Erinyes system for MACH-TB, and is including other partner systems as part of the overall indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract including the Hermeus Quarterhorse, systems from Firefly Aerospace and Stratolaunch.

Cummings Aerospace and ATRX to develop supersonic and hypersonic unmanned aircraft HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cummings Aerospace and ATRX signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of high-speed unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a modest $892,292 earlier this month to study the feasibility of developing an unmanned hypersonic spy plane called the SR-72. This superfast recon drone, first teased in November 2013, would fly at speeds of Mach 6.0, or 4,500 ...