The United States Air Force says it has conducted a successful test of a hypersonic weapon, which flew at five times the speed of sound.

The test was conducted on Saturday off the coast of Southern California when a B-52 bomber released an Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), the Air Force said in a statement on Monday.
Following separation from the aircraft, the ARRW’s booster ignited and burned for expected duration, achieving hypersonic speeds five times greater than the speed of sound,” it said.

The US also said it tested a successful hypersonic missile in mid-March, while the Washington-led AUKUS alliance, which also includes the United Kingdom and Australia, has announced plans to work together to develop the high-speed weapons.
The US and its allies are not alone in developing hypersonic weapons, whose speed and manoeuvrability make them difficult to track and intercept.

Russia has fired hypersonic missiles at targets in Ukraine several times since its invasion on February 24, including deploying a Kinzhal or “Dagger” hypersonic air-to-surface missiles at the city of Odesa earlier this month.
Russia claims the Kinzhal travels at 10 times the speed of sound.

But the Pentagon, which is supplying Ukraine with weapons in its war against Russia, said Moscow’s use of hypersonic weapons against Kyiv does not change the nature of the conflict.
US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley told legislators that Russian forces have used “several hypersonic missiles”, but “other than the speed of the weapon – in terms of its effect on a given target – we are not seeing really significant or game-changing effects to date with the delivery of the small number of hypersonics that the Russians have used”.

US military officials have also accused China of testing hypersonic weapons, but the Chinese foreign ministry denied in October that it had conducted a weapons test.

Source: Aljazeera.
Lalasticlala, myndd44

Lalasticlala, myndd44 give this thread the needed lift nah!

The new arms race between US, China and Russia has started

Mutually Assured Destruction, these people are more interested in conflict than peace, this whole Ukraine drama will end catastrophically for the world . The events so far are as I envisaged

Lol, no empirical footage

Only, US say, Zalensky don teach them something

well they have to. It's of china a d other world power to conduct their own test

Oh this one is successful?

Elvictor:
Lol, no empirical footage

Only, US say, Zalensky don teach them something

Putin mentioned it before the war, that he knows the US is working day and night to build it's own hypersonic missile and sooner or later they will achieve it.

You linking with others to conduct tests while Russia and China are already deploying theirs to the battleground . US hypersonic is mach 5, while Khinzal the least of all Russian hypersonic missiles is Mach 12 speed.

Congratulation to them but do they have an answer to the Russian kinzhal or Avangard? NO!
By answer, I mean, do they have the capability and capacity to intercept Hypersonic missiles?
The only country so far that practically have the capability to do that is still Russia, with their S500 ADS.

I am still wondering why the much proclaimed Patriot defense system from US have not been transferred among the weapon packages to Ukraine. I really want to see the system's efficiency and effectiveness in defending the skies from enemies' missiles.

Well, they might not. The experience the Patriot defense systems had in the hands of Yemenis while "defending" the Saudi Arabian's oil depots are enough bad market.

OhMyG0d:
Congratulation to them but do they have an answer to the Russian kinzhal or Avangard? NO!
By answer, I mean, do they have the capability and capacity to intercept Hypersonic missiles?
The only country so far that practically have the capability to do that is still Russia, with their S500 ADS.

I am still wondering why the much proclaimed Patriot defense system from US have not been transferred among the weapon packages to Ukraine. I really want to see the system's efficiency and effectiveness in defending the skies from enemies' missiles.

Well, they might not. The experience the Patriot defense systems had in the hands of Yemenis while "defending" the Saudi Arabian's oil depots are enough bad market.

That will make the Patriot MiM-104 a target for Russian missile

Imagine the irony of ADS being hit by air target

That will de-market the Patriot system and all US Air defence systems further. It will make the Saudi experience a child's play