Just saw that Rocket Lab is ramping up hypersonic testing for the Defense Department. Their latest mission called "That's Not A Knife" is launching this month from Virginia with a scramjet aircraft from an Australian company called Hypersonix. Pretty wild that they're already on their fourth hypersonic test in six months.

The crazy part? This scramjet-powered DART AE can supposedly reach Mach 20. That's the kind of speed capability the U.S. really needs right now, and apparently no one else has commercialized this level of hypersonic testing yet. They're basically giving the military way more control over test conditions and flight profiles than before.

Rocket Lab keeps talking about how lowering the cost and increasing launch frequency is a game changer for allies too. If they can keep this tempo up with scramjet tech, it definitely changes the defense landscape. The whole point seems to be restoring American dominance in hypersonic capabilities, which makes sense given everything going on geopolitically.