Key Points and Summary - Boeing’s X-51A “Waverider” was a hypersonic tech demonstrator built with AFRL, DARPA, and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to validate scramjet flight. -Air-dropped from a B-52, the ...

Discover the power of the scramjet – the cutting-edge hypersonic propulsion system pushing aircraft and missiles beyond Mach 5. Learn how it works, why it’s revolutionary, and what it means for the ...

The Air Force is resurrecting its boost-glide missile program—an effort first launched to much fanfare in August 2018, only to see mixed results in testing and ultimately lose support from service ...

Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane. Twice in the last five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five ...

Bhubaneswar: The Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), a wing of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in India, has achieved a significant milestone in the field of ...

The Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) regards the ground test of an active cooled scramjet combustor as being a milestone in its development of next-generation hypersonic missiles. (Defence Research ...

An Indian government defence laboratory has successfully tested a scramjet as part of efforts to develop hypersonic missiles. The Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL) conducted the 120s ...

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Doctoral student Max Chern takes a closer look at the wind tunnel setup where University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science researchers demonstrated that control of a dual-mode ...

Summary and Key Points: The X-51 Waverider, an experimental hypersonic aircraft, reached speeds up to Mach 5.1 (3,400 mph). Launched in 2005 by Boeing Phantom Works with DARPA and Air Force Research ...