The Japanese Defense Ministry on Friday revealed the development progress of the Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile, announcing the standoff missile—which is intended for use in defending the nat ...

So what if you raise that by a factor of 17? That means a super-duper missile would have a velocity of 137 kilometers per second. That’s about 400 times the speed of sound—Mach 400.

This Japanese-language graphic shows the country's two planned hypersonic weapons: (1) the Hypersonic Cruise Missile and (2) the Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile. (Japan's Acquisition ...

The missile has also been known as the “Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile for island defense.” Japan plans to field the weapon by next year. Chinese forces have sent frequent patrols to the ...

A range of hyper velocity projectiles from different weapon ... would enable larger caliber guns to launch HVPs at air and missile threats over medium ranges (10–30 nautical miles),” read ...

According to the official Anti-Ballistic Missile Project History "the ablative heat shield had to survive a low-trajectory, high-velocity environment that generated extremely high boundary-layer ...