Hypersonic weapons promise unmatched speed and reach, but they are held back by a fundamental engineering problem: propulsion ...

China has tested a powerful engine that can carry weapons at remarkable speeds through both air and water. The novel engine achieved 90% efficiency in laboratory tests, which were conducted in ...

A team at the Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI), the university’s research and development center, is using state-of-the-art additive-manufacturing equipment to print a full-scale, fully ...

Boston-based Specter Aerospace expects to conduct flight tests of a plasma-assisted, ramjet-powered supersonic missile in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Langley Research Center maintained an active hypersonic research program from the early days of the formation of NASA in 1958. The goals of the Hypersonic Research Engine (HRE) project, which ...

NASA has been officially recognized for setting the speed record for a jet-powered aircraft by Guinness World Records. NASA set the record in November during the third and final flight of the ...

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has confirmed that it is developing the SR-72 spy plane. The successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, which was capable of Mach 3.5, the SR-72 will be a hypersonic unmanned ...

The successful SFDR test has major strategic implications. Ramjet-powered air-to-air missiles can strike targets at much longer ranges while retaining high energy during the final moments before ...