US defence startup Castelion announced on Friday that it has secured contracts to integrate its Blackbeard hypersonic strike weapon with existing US Army systems — marking an important step towards deploying these powerful and almost impossible-to-intercept weapons worldwide.

The US and China are engaged in an arms race to develop the most lethal hypersonic weapons, which travel in the upper atmosphere at more than five times the speed of sound and are designed to evade traditional defences.

HIMARS-Blackbeard Collaboration

Castelion will work with the Army to incorporate the Blackbeard weapon system onto operational platforms like the Army’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System ( HIMARS ).

HIMARS is now a widely recognized weapon after footage from the war in Ukraine showed the laun

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