HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Lockheed Martin team, an ...

Demonstrations are planned for January using a low-cost gun-launching technique Free-flight demonstrations of a fin-stabilised mini-scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) are scheduled to start in ...

Another successful flight test was accomplished by the collaborative Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) of the US Air Force and DARPA. With its Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet, the Lockheed ...

Alliant Techsystems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully ground-launched and flew a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the ...

NASA built an X-42A hydrogen-powered scramjet to reach speeds of Mach 9.6 for a brief moment in 2004. Therefore, this new unmanned aircraft would be more of an optimization and refitting of an ...

A recent flight test of a prototype of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept set an endurance record for scramjet engines, the head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency told ...

ATLA is working to develop a scramjet engine to power various hypersonic vehicles, including a cruise missile. (ATLA/Japan MoD) Japan is preparing to conduct the first combustion flight test of its in ...

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 ...

Leveraging decades of Australian hypersonics research and technology, Brisbane-based startup Hypersonix Launch Systems is gearing up to play a central role in the country’s plans for air-breathing ...

Today scramjet propulsion is the subject of continued study, as it appears to be one of the most promising methods of powering hypersonic weapons and aircraft. So, you may be surprised to learn that ...