Marines are used to getting people to move faster. Now a Marine is ordering the aerospace sector to do just that, and it would behoove industry to snap to it.

Speed matters on this week’s podcast as technical editor Graham Warwick talks to senior editor Guy Norris about his story on Boeing’s reusable hypersonic demonstrator concept and the rapidly evolving developments in hypersonics over the past year since he broke the story about the U.S. losing its lead in this increasingly important area of defense technology.

The U.S. targets China and Russia in its latest defense strategy, but what’s to stop both powers ganging up against Washington?

The military has much aging equipment and ammunition that needs to be replaced or upgraded.

Rotorcraft will become a focus of Thailand’s military imports in coming years.

The South Korean army rejected the bulky Surion as inappropriate for the attack mission, but the marines regard it as a candidate for the role.

Are London and Paris balking at the high costs associated with the UCAV demonstrator’s development?

India tests nuke-capable ICBM; court allows U.S. Army/Airbus sole-source deal; U.S. OKs Belgium F-35 sale; weapons tests on Russia’s most advanced fighter.