As a nation historically reliant on foreign technology, India’s push for self-reliance through BrahMos-II is a matter of ...

Stratolaunch completed two flights of its autonomous Talon-A2 rocket plane earlier this year, as the US aims to gain ground ...

NASA flew the autonomous X-43 test vehicle to hypersonic speed two times in 2004, and the Air Force demonstrated an air-breathing scramjet engine at Mach 5.1 with the X-51 Waverider aircraft in 2013.

Article Summary: The X-51 Waverider's 2013 hypersonic flight represented a milestone in military aviation, reaching Mach 5.1 using a scramjet engine after launching from a B-52H. Although it ...

The X-51A Waverider demonstrated hypersonic flight. Powered by a Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne SJY61 scramjet engine, it was designed to ride on its own shockwave and accelerate to about Mach 6. Image – ...

Venus Aerospace just took one giant leap toward hypersonic travel. The Houston-based startup successfully completed the first U.S. flight test of an exotic new type of engine, capable of enabling ...

In the future, those flights might be a lot shorter if hypersonic travel becomes a reality. Tests by private company Stratolaunch suggest that the possibility is certainly there. Stratolaunch ...

The US Department of Defense performed a secretive test of its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon, Dark Eagle, over the weekend. According to several reports, the test mission flew from Cape Canaveral ...

The B-1 bomber’s ability to engage adversarial defenses with hypersonic cruise missiles will guarantee its relevance. The race to acquire new hypersonic capabilities is heating up, and the ...

Due to budget constraints, the U.S. Navy has canceled its HALO hypersonic missile program but continues investing in long-range strike capabilities like the LRASM. Over two years ago, the United ...