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As Australian, British and American leaders commit to cooperate on hypersonic weapons, the deputy prime minister has highlighted the nature of the threat.

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The AUKUS defence alliance agrees to cooperate on hypersonic weapons and electronic warfare capabilities.

The U.S. recently completed its second in-flight test of a hypersonic cruise missile.

Britain, US and Australia to cooperate on high-speed missiles to counter Russia and China

The United States, United Kingdom and Australia are expected to announce as soon as Tuesday that they will work together via the recently created security alliance known as AUKUS to develop hypersonic missiles, That's according to a Biden administration official who was not authorized to comment and spoke on the…

In January, there was a question in the second general studies paper of the civil services (main) examination in India that might interest the Economist, particularly its Asia section. A 15-mark question asked the candidates to analyse whether the newly formed AUKUS (Australia-United Kingdom-United States) partnership was going to supersede…

The Morrison government has been signalling for some time that it wants the 2022 federal election to be a so-called “khaki election”: one big on defence and national security.

If the last two budgets were delivered under the spectre of COVID, this year’s budget has a different bogeyman: the outbreak of war in Europe and growing unrest in the Asia-Pacific region.