In the opening hours of a US-China war, the DF-17 would crater runways at bases like Kadena in Japan or Andersen in Guam, crippling American airpower in the Indo-Pacific.
The Russian MiG-31 Foxhound, renowned for its impressive speed of Mach 2.83, has recently been outfitted with hypersonic ...
Angry Tortoise could offer a new path to an operational and affordable hypersonic weapon after years of struggles with other programs.
America built the X-15 to get flight data in the unknown between airplanes and spacecraft. -The rocket-powered, Inconel-X research plane, air-dropped from a B-52 and driven by a throttleable XLR99, ...
What has zero moving parts, yet can blast an aerial vehicle to velocities beyond Mach 5? The answer is the recently flight-tested Atmospheric Test of Launched Airbreathing System (ATLAS) powered by a ...
GE Aerospace tested its solid-fuel ramjet system at supersonic speeds on a Starfighter F-104 over Kennedy Space Center, a ...