GE and Lockheed ground tested a new air-breathing hypersonic jet engine capable of powering missiles to speeds well in excess of Mach 5 in a smaller, cheaper, lighter, and more efficient package than ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a step that could bolster the U.S.'s hypersonic weapons push, the Pentagon on Monday confirmed the second successful test of a ...
Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) have been flown by Venus Aerospace. They use continuous detonation waves for propulsion and provide 15% efficiency gains (in specific impulse or fuel consumption) ...
Hermeus is pushing for Mach 5 flight with its Quarterhorse test program. See how this hypersonic tech aims to shrink travel ...
The U.S. military now has a hypersonic test drone that can fly at Mach 5, land in the ocean, get recovered, and do it again. The Department of Defense confirmed that its Talon-A vehicle, built by ...
At roughly 3,800 miles per hour, a Mach 5 aircraft could cross the Atlantic in under 90 minutes. That speed, five times the speed of sound, is what Atlanta-based startup Hermeus is engineering toward.
Hypersonic flight, once a concept of science fiction, is now on the cusp of reality. Capable of speeds over Mach 5, or around 3,000 mph, this technology has the potential to reshape air travel and ...