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 ...

Breaking Mach 9.6 with an air-breathing engine wasn’t just a speed stunt. It confirmed that scramjets can operate where rockets once had the field to themselves,” said Harry J. Kazianis, citing the ...

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 ...

A’s Legacy Go Operational? -In 2004, NASA’s X-43A set the air-breathing speed record at Mach 9.6, validating scramjet combustion but only for 10 seconds before gliding to splashdown. -The demo ended ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) successfully launched its Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) scramjet missile last week. The free flight test of the missile was ...

DRDO is set to flight-test the Dhvani hypersonic missile by end of 2025. It will fly over Mach 6 with a range of up to 10,000 km.

Cutaway of Japan’s hypersonic missile concept. Credit: Chen Chuanren TOKYO—Japan has managed to attain “net-positive thrust” for the scramjet engine that will power its future hypersonic missile. This ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

DARPA conducted a test of Raytheon's Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC, earlier this month. (DARPA) FARNBOROUGH, England — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency this week ...