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Lyndon B. Johnson will be the second ship in the U.S. Navy to deploy hypersonics amid the service’s efforts to up-gun its Zumwalt-class destroyers with Conventional Prompt Strike. Aaron-Matthew Lariosa 16 Jan 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Navy announced that the USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002) dry-docked at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Pascagoula Shipyard in […]
The U.S. Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon, which is being retrofitted aboard the first of its three stealthy destroyers. The USS Zumwalt is at a Mississippi shipyard where workers have installed missile tubes that replace twin turrets from a gun system that was never […]
China’s new GDF-600 hypersonic weapon could redefine warfare with its fast, multi-target strike and electronic attack capabilities, posing a serious challenge to Taiwan and US forces in the Pacific. This month, The War Zone reported that China unveiled its new concept for an unpowered hypersonic boost-glide weapon, conceived by the Guangdong Aerodynamic Research Academy (GARA), […]
U.S. Army Awards Lockheed Martin $756 Million Hypersonic Weapon System Contract Lockheed Martin to build next Long Range Hypersonic Weapon batteries for the Army HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 17, 2024 – Today the U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] a $756 million contract to deliver additional capability for the nation’s ground-based hypersonic weapon system, the […]
Staff Sgt. Pedro Tenorio/Andersen Air Force Base B-52 crews take part in hypersonic weapon familiarization training at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, on February 27, 2024. CNN — The US Air Force has tested a hypersonic cruise missile in the Pacific for the first time, in what analysts say is a signal to China that […]
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