The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded £12 million ($16.2 million) to Amentum UK to advance development of a hypersonic missile system, reinforcing Britain’s ambition to establish a sovereign high-speed, long-range strike capability.
The project will culminate in flight testing of a demonstrator, paving the way for prototype missiles designed to exceed Mach 5 while enduring intense thermal and structural stresses.
Amentum UK will work alongside Ebeni and Synthetik Applied Technologies UK Ltd under the integrated “Team Hypersonics (UK)” framework. The initiative forms part of a broader plan to field an operational hypersonic weapon by the decade’s end.
