Designed to fly at Mach 6 and beyond, the SR-72 is Lockheed Martin’s next-generation unmanned spy plane—and potential strike ...

Key Points and Summary – The X-43A Scramjet That Broke Mach 9.6 — And Then We Walked Away -NASA’s X-43A was a black, ...

Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK – News) successfully certified its Advanced Propulsion Research Complex (APRC) during a recent direct-connect test of a Variable Flow Ducted Rocket (VFDR) propulsion ...

WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman opened the doors to a new hypersonics manufacturing facility, designed to meet U.S. Department of Defense needs for high-speed propulsion systems. The company broke ...

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 ...

Today scramjet propulsion is the subject of continued study, as it appears to be one of the most promising methods of powering hypersonic weapons and aircraft. So, you may be surprised to learn that ...

Concept art of DARPA's Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC). On Monday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Association announced it had successfully tested an air-breathing hypersonic ...

388091 01: FILE PHOTO: An artist's conception of NASA's X-43A Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle, or "Hyper-X" in flight, in an undated photo. The vehicle, developed to flight test a dual-mode ...

Ten years after the X-51 first flew under scramjet power, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has completed ground tests of air-breathing hypersonic engines that could accelerate a vehicle ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Had the X-24C been successful in testing, America would likely have leveraged scramjet technology in more platforms. Today scramjet propulsion is the subject of ...

They call it a "scramjet," an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in about 20 minutes -- or even quicker. So fast it could put satellites ...

LOS ANGELES – A tiny unmanned NASA scramjet soared above the Pacific Ocean Tuesday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or almost 7,000 mph, in a successful demonstration of a radical new engine ...