India's DRDO was in the process of developing hypersonic missiles for the defence forces of the country, who are now looking to induct long range cruise and ballistic missiles like the 2,000 km range Nirbhay and 400 km range Pralay missiles.
Earlier this month, the US said it would start deploying long-range missiles in Germany from 2026 as part of a longer-term militarization that will include SM-6, Tomahawk cruise missiles and developmental hypersonic weapons.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended the test launch of the solid fuel-powered Hwasong-16 missile in a Pyongyang suburb. He claimed all missiles his country has developed are now based on solid fuel technology and are capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
On March 17, a B-52 bomber flying out of Andersen Air Force Base on the island of Guam fired "a full prototype operational hypersonic missile", an Air Force spokesperson confirmed in a statement to CNN.
North Korea has successfully conducted a ground-jet test of a solid-fuel engine for a new type of intermediate hypersonic missile amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Yonhap News Agency.
North Korea on Monday said it successfully test-fired a solid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) carrying a hypersonic warhead on Sunday.
Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems on Wednesday announced the development of what it said was the world's first hypersonic missile interceptor, called SkySonic.
The grand Silver Jubilee Year celebration by India-Russia JV entity BrahMos Aerospace culminated on a high note on Monday in the presence of the company's Founder CEO and MD Padma Bhushan Dr A.S. Pillai.
"You are funding advanced hypersonic weapons-related research at an American university that actively partners with a Chinese university that performs similar research for the PLA," Representative Mike Gallagher, the chairman of the House select committee on China, said in a letter to US Def
The attack was one of the largest since March and appeared to demonstrate Ukraine's growing capability to defend against Russia's arsenal of aerial weapons, reported The New York Times (NYT).
As an impact of geopolitical heat, China, which is arraigned by the international community for its aggressive military positioning in the Indo-Pacific region, has expressed its worries about Japan's military build-up in the region.