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Edwards Air Force Base An Air Force AGM-183A ARRW hypersonic weapon test ended in failure on Monday. The booster test vehicle carried by a B-52 bomber was unable to complete the launch sequence. The ARRW is expected to be the first air-launched hypersonic weapon in the US arsenal. A US Air Force bomber tried and failed to launch a test missile for a new hypersonic weapon during a long-awaited first flight test Monday. The Air Force said in a statement that it suffered "a setback in demonstrating its progress in hypersonic weapons on April 5 when its first booster...

Ministry of Defence commits £6.6bn to development of new technologies such as hypersonic missiles and laser weapons 17 March 2021 • 10:00pm Boris Johnson has committed £6.6 billion for novel military research The development of new technologies such as hypersonic missiles and laser weapons is to be given a boost from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) with extra money, the Government has announced.    The MoD will invest a significant amount of the extra money it won from the Treasury last year in “higher-risk research”. Adversaries such as Russia have invested in new air weapons progra...

The New F-15EX Flies For The First Time Ahead Of The First Deliveries Later This Year The New F-15EX Flies For The First Time Ahead Of The First Deliveries Later This Year The F-15EX AF 20-0001 photographed immediately after the  landing gear retraction during the takeoff. (Photo: @vikingaeroimages) The new advanced F-15EX Eagles will replace the older F-15Cs that have long surpassed their expected service-life estimates. The first new F-15EX built for the U.S. Air Force took the skies for the first time today from Boeing’s plant at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis. The aircraft,...