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Expert's panel on hypersonic missiles at the HCoC Annual Regular Meeting

28 May 2026

On 28 May 2026, the FRS organised a lunchtime side event in the margins of the HCoC Annnual Regular Meeting (ARM) in Vienna. This workshop focused on hypersonic missiles, trying to understand their specificities and how they can be integrated in the non-proliferation and arms control architecture.

AGENDA

 

WELCOMING REMARKS

  • Ms Markéta Homolková, Deputy Head of Division, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Arms Export Control, European External Action Service (EEAS), European Union

     

  • Amb. Alejandro Garofali Acosta, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the International Organisations in Vienna, HCoC Chair 2025-2026

     

  • Amb. Mohammed Hindawi, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Jordan to the International Organisations in Vienna, HCoC Chair 2026-2027

I/ THE ROLE OF THE HCoC DEALING WITH THE CURRENT BALLISTIC MISSILE LANDSCAPE

PRESENTERS: 

  • Dr Magnus Evestedt, Deputy Research Director, FOI

  • Ms Zuzanna Gwadera, Research Analyst and Programme Administrator, IISS

  • Ms Emmanuelle Maitre, Senior Research Fellow, FRS

  • Mr Kolja Brockmann, Senior Researcher (non-resident), SIPRI

Moderation: Alexandre Houdayer, Secretary General, FRS

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Research Papers

Limiting the proliferation of WMD means of delivery: a low-profile approach to bypass diplomatic deadlocks

Since the creation of the HCoC in 2002, the need for more collective commitment and action to fight the proliferation of ballistic missiles has certainly not decreased. The destabilizing nature of these weapons has not changed. Non-proliferation is just less about keeping the world stable and more about not adding a risk factor to an uncertain future. The HCoC was and remains a response to that need, but certainly not the end of the quest for improvement.

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