A Common Hypersonic Glide Body launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, during a DOD flight experiment in March 2020. (U.S. Navy) The U.S. Army is aiming for one more major ...

The key to the project is the use of hypersonic sound arrays. These essentially use high-frequency sound beyond the human range of hearing to carry a lower-frequency sound signal. By essentially ...

The SR-72 is an upcoming American aircraft expected to succeed the iconic SR-71. However, unlike its predecessor, the SR-72 ...

Chinese researchers have presented a new design concept for a hypersonic aircraft, which they say is a big step towards one day flying from Beijing to New York in just a few hours. Which would no ...

Nanqiang No. 1 is a small (500 kilogram) ground testing model for a Chinese hypersonic plane program. They have completed over two years of testing. In 2025, China will flight test a small drone. In ...

UDRI's hypervelocity impact facility has 2 two-stage light-gas gun ranges for hypervelocity testing at velocities up to 24,600 ft/sec (7.5 km/sec). Applications for this facility include design and ...

UDRI's hypersonic and hypervelocity research supports our customers' efforts to better understand and mitigate the thermal and aerodynamic stresses involved in hypersonic flight (over five times the ...

a Russian Air Force MiG-31K jet carries a high-precision hypersonic aero-ballistic missile (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) As your White ...

2. The experiment traveled over the Norwegian Sea at Mach 7.2 and provided a stream of important data on the physics of airflow at hypersonic speeds. "The data we gathered from the flight ...

Russia Jails Hypersonic Scientist for 15 Years After Treason Trial By Lucy Papachristou LONDON (Reuters) -A Russian court sentenced physicist Alexander Shiplyuk to 15 years on treason charges on ...

Powered by the legendary heritage of the SR-71 Blackbird, the SR-72 wants to lift extra-hypersonic speeds to Mach 6.0, more ...

Venus Aerospace, making hypersonic flight a reality for commercial and defense purposes, has achieved the first long-duration engine test of their Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) in ...