by Hidetoshi Azuma | Dec 5, 2014 | Monitor
International News MENA IS FIGHTERS BESIEGE CRUCIAL SYRIAN AIR BASE The Associated Press Muslim militants pushed forward in their offensive on a major military air base in eastern Syria Friday capturing a nearby village in an attempt to take one of President Bashar...
by Robert Beckhusen and Noah Shachtman | Aug 15, 2012 | Monitor
The Air Force’s X-51A Waverider hypersonic missile attached to the wing of a B-52 Stratofortress. Photo: USAF Updated 2:39 p.m. ET A crucial test for the Air Force’s experimental Mach 5 missile has ended in failure, according to the Air Force....
by Noah Shachtman | Aug 13, 2012 | Monitor
The Air Force’s X-51A Waverider. Photo: USAF On Tuesday, an Air Force B-52 bomber is scheduled to take off from Edwards Air Force Base in California. Under its wing will be the closest thing in the world to a hypersonic missile. The plane will soar over the...
by Robert Beckhusen | Jun 28, 2012 | Monitor
A BrahMos supersonic cruise missile variant on display at the International Maritime Defense Show in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2007. Photo: Wikimedia Russia and India are already testing a new supersonic cruise missile, which is pretty cool, we guess. But going Mach 2...
