testing at Mach 6.5 is expected to be completed later this month. This engine, known as the Ground Demonstration Engine (GDE-1), uses standard JP-7 fuel in an ...
Somewhere in the sprawling test ranges of the American Southwest, a missile designed to fly at five times the speed of sound ...
Japan has completed a ground combustion test of a ramjet engine designed for a ...
The US Air Force has given the first look at the the Air Force’s Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile. This will be a hypersonic missile with a supersonic ramjet engine that is scheduled for deployment ...
Technically speaking, we refer to something as being hypersonic if it is capable of reaching speeds between Mach 5 and Mach 10 (3,836 mph/6,173 kph to double that). That’s quite the margin, but given ...
Atlanta-based aviation firm Hermeus is actively developing a reusable hypersonic aircraft for both military and commercial applications, and this week it released a never-before-seen image of its ...
Twenty-two years after NASA sent the X-43A screaming across the Pacific at Mach 9.6, the United States is spending heavily to turn hypersonic speed into usable military power. The Defense Department’s ...