The Global Hypersonic Race

... vehicles. Mike White, the Pentagon’s assistant director for hypersonics, announced that the department had a three-step plan ... ... defensive systems, and finally, at least ten years from now, in reusable airborne hypersonic vehicles. The Pentagon’s spending ... ... intent to create a High-Speed Gliding Missile, an equivalent of Russia’s Avangard. Minister of the Armed Forces of France Florence ... ... increase its flight range by several times. The second type is a scramjet-powered vehicle, which can only fly in the atmosphere ...