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Japan and the United States on Wednesday signed an arrangement to jointly develop a new type of missile defense system as the allies seek to defend against the growing threat of hypersonic weapons ...
The Mako missile is 13 feet long, 13 inches in diameter, and weighs 1,300 pounds, including a 130-pound warhead. [3] It is powered by a solid-fuel rocket motor and is capable of achieving hypersonic speeds of at least Mach 5, though more specific details about its flight profile have not been disclosed. [ 3 ]
Japan and the U.S. will agree this week to jointly develop an interceptor missile to counter hypersonic warheads being developed by China, Russia and North Korea, Japan's Yomiuri newspaper said on ...
The launch coincided with a joint US/Japan/South Korea trilateral flight exercise. [8] [9] Another Hwasong-16B was test-fired on 6 January 2025. North Korea called the missile as "new-type intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile" without mentioning official name.
The product of the 2019 Missile Defense Review's (MDR) for further enhancement of the US national missile defense system, the HBTSS will provide quality intercept data to the GPI. Equipped with "Birth-to-death" capability, the HBTSS can track potential threats from their launch until interception. [ 2 ]
Previously, in June of 2022, the Navy’s test launch of a complete ‘all-up’ CPS missile, known as Joint Flight Campaign-1, failed before it even had a chance to release its hypersonic glider.
The HVGP is designed as a standoff missile capable of attacking enemy forces invading remote islands in Japan from outside the enemy weapon engagement zone. [3] The development of the HVGP is based on an incremental approach, with Block 1 being developed as an early version based on existing technology, followed by the development of a performance-enhancing Block 2.
Hypersonic missiles can fly at least five times faster than the speed of sound and on a complex trajectory, which are difficult to intercept, the report said. UPDATE 1-Japan considering hypersonic ...