A high speed sled test is conducted at Holloman High Speed Test Track. Credit: U.S. Air Force The Pentagon is considering building a second high speed test track to augment the original 70-year-old ...
A new systems-level analysis finds that cheap green hydrogen and airport infrastructure, not engine technology, will ...
Hypersonic flight environments impose extreme thermal, pressure, and electromagnetic challenges on electronic systems, necessitating advanced ruggedization techniques. Guidance, navigation, and ...
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 test of ...
Hypersonic missiles travel at speeds of at least Mach 5, which is about 3,800 mph or nearly 1 mile per second. The science behind how hypersonic weapons work is fascinating, just like their capacity ...
February 13 2025, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced its secretive Aerospace Projects Office (APO) is developing a large hypersonic bomber prototype as part of the Next ...
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Hypersonic weapons are frequently described as having unique, game-changing capabilities because they combine hypersonic speeds (more than five times the speed of sound, or Mach 5) with long-distance ...
Speed is paramount in designing missiles, so engineers have worked for years to improve how fast a missile can fly. The goal is to strike a target without warning, so the faster an object, the harder ...