After a two-year upgrade of its test facilities, the AEDC Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee has finally been able to test the latest Northrop Grumman scramjet ...
A scramjet engine made by Northrop Grumman set a record for the highest thrust produced by an air-breathing hypersonic engine in US Air Force history. Ground tests of the 5.5m (18ft)-long engine were ...
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has achieved a crucial milestone by developing a long-duration supersonic combustion ramjet, or Scramjet powered hypersonic technology. Defence ...
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NEW DELHI: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Friday conducted a successful ground test of a full-scale actively cooled scramjet engine --- an air breathing engine capable of ...
China has revealed the first known images of an indigenous scramjet test that it says was successfully conducted at speeds up to Mach 7 and altitudes up to 30 km, in December 2015. Credit: National ...
The Air Force's X-51A WaveRider was destroyed during its third test flight after losing control just 16 seconds in, failing to reach its Mach 6 speed goal. The craft lost control due to a problem with ...
According to the U.S. Air Force, the flight test for the experimental X-51A WaveRider plane which could potentially travel up to 4500mph has resulted in failure. As previously reported on SmartPlanet, ...