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Hypersonic Weapons – Australia’s Deterrent Future? – Cathy Moloney

The 2020 Defence Strategic Update establishes a new policy framework on the foundation of the key principles: ‘shape, deter, respond’, and includes consideration of several capabilities as a means to achieve its strategic outcomes. Dr Moloney considers the meaning of deterrence and the role that...
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any news on the German hypersonic program ? According to this article:

Zielsetzung Hyperschall - MBDA entwickelt im Auftrag der Bundeswehr

Die Bundeswehr ist seit letztem Jahr in das Thema Hyperschall eingestiegen, dazu hat das Bundesamt für Ausrüstung, Informationstechnik und Nutzung der Bundeswehr 2018 ein Technologieprogramm (F&T, Stufe 2) aufgesetzt.
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a subsidiary of MBDA managed to launch a missile which could reach mach 7 (8.644 km/h ~ 2.4 m/s) back in 2003. Recent news indicate they are designing hypersonic anti-tank weapon, which seems a bit pointless imo...They also mentioned another hypersonic missile to be used with the new air defense system (TLVS I think ?)
 
The University of Queensland has done a lot of excellent work on scramjets since the 90's at least. I remember reading about them nearly twenty years ago.

Well, since jingoistic China is presently threatening Australia with missiles (including hypersonic ones) - I would say, high time to put all that scramjet work to good use !

Imagine the headlines "Thanks to University of Queensland, Australia beats China at its own game: hypersonic long range missiles."
 
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Australia tests DART hypersonic platform in ground trials

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DIU Eyes First Launch for Its Commercial Hypersonic Testbed​

DIU Eyes First Launch for Its Commercial Hypersonic Testbed

The Defense Innovation Unit is gearing up for the first flight of a commercially developed hypersonic testbed as soon as the end of February.
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First flight for Australian hydrogen-fulled hypersonic aircraft​

Launch: DART – Hypersonix Launch Systems

The first launch of DART is under HyCAT with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) which Hypersonix was awarded in March 2023. The launch will be from the US and the boost for the first launch will be provided by Rocket Lab on their HASTE rocket. The first launch will show speeds of Mach 7, a range...
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