Kim Jong Un oversaw hypersonic missile tests as North Korea ramped up weapons displays ahead of a major political conference, state media reported.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has observed test-flights of hypersonic missiles and underscored the need to bolster the country’s nuclear war deterrent

India achieves a major breakthrough with a successful 12-minute scramjet engine endurance test, boosting hypersonic weapon capabilities and strategic advantage.

Russia’s vaunted hypersonic arsenal was sold to the world as a family of “unstoppable” weapons that would rip through Western defenses and rewrite the rules of war. On the battlefields of the Ukraine conflict,

The deployment of Oreshnik missiles to Belarus—the likely front line of a NATO-Russia conflict—is especially concerning because European nations have no reliable countermeasures against them.

China’s surface combatants are set to receive a new hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) capability following the finalization tests of the YJ-20 from a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) destroyer.

The Pentagon said China has the world's leading hypersonic missile arsenal for conventional and nuclear strikes.

Russia is bolstering its strategic arsenal with advanced weapons like the Oreshnik hypersonic missile, now deployed in Belarus, significantly reducing European warning times. Moscow is also developing the nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile and Poseidon underwater drone.