The National Interest
The U.S. Armed Forces are continuing to develop technologies for countering adversaries’ hypersonic missiles.
A hot topic in the ever-increasing arms race between the United States of America and its adversaries—Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran—is that of hypersonic missiles.
Rest assuredly, the United States is not simply sitting idly by while these adversaries are building up their hypersonic stockpiles. As I discussed in a March 25, 2025, article for The National Interest, the U.S. Air Force has been steadily advancing its own hypersonic capabilities via the deadly tandem of the B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber and the AGM-183 Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW). And, as we’re about to discuss right now, the U.S. Armed Forces are continuing to develop technologies for mitigating and countering the adversaries’ missiles.
