A recent flight test of a prototype of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept set an endurance record for scramjet engines, the head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency told ...

D. It Never Flew — and That Matters Now. -NASA’s X-43A proved that an air-breathing scramjet could fly at hypersonic speeds, ...

When the program was initiated, no aircraft had been propelled to hypersonic speeds by an air-breathing engine. The NASA X-43 ...

Alliant Techsystems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully ground-launched and flew a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the ...

NASA plans to test an aircraft this weekend designed to fly seven times the speed of sound, using an innovative engine called a "scramjet." The test is part of an effort to develop missiles that can ...

A Raytheon-built, scramjet-powered, hypersonic cruise missile completed a free flight test last week, recording the first successful test of an air-breathing U.S. vehicle over Mach 5 since May 2013.

testing at Mach 6.5 is expected to be completed later this month. This engine, known as the Ground Demonstration Engine (GDE-1), uses standard JP-7 fuel in an ...

India's DRDL said it conducted long-duration active cooled scramjet subscale combustor ground testing for more than 1,000 seconds on 25 April. (DRDO) Months after it test-fired an active cooled ...

An Indian government defence laboratory has successfully tested a scramjet as part of efforts to develop hypersonic missiles. The Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL) conducted the 120s ...

A Japanese research agency has completed a successful combustion test of a hypersonic scramjet engine launched by a sounding rocket. The experimental scramjet vehicle was launched on July 24 by the ...

Raytheon Missiles & Defense and Northrop Grumman successfully test flew an air-breathing hypersonic missile on September 20, 2021. Part of a program for DARPA and the US Air Force, the Hypersonic ...

The University of Queensland says last week's second flight test of its HyShot air-breathing supersonic-combustion ramjet (scramjet) engine from Woomera in Australia was successful, although analysis ...