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 ...

The Delta Airlines deal comes on the heels of GE Aerospace and Lockheed Martin completing engine tests for hypersonic ...

Hypersonix Launch Systems is an Australian start-up that is turning heads in the hypersonic sector. Its current portfolio includes its unmanned DART, VISR, and Delta Velos demonstrator vehicles, all ...

Japan's Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) has started prototyping components in support of its programme to ...

One area of concern is the efficiency gap for hypersonic missiles that use ramjets for propulsion. Ramjets are jet engines that effectively have no moving parts. Instead of using turbines to compress ...

India’s scramjet success proves hypersonic strength, but turbine complexity keeps fighter engines a tough challenge.

The military portal Defense Express, the HYTEV is to be built by Bremen-based startup Polaris Raumflugzeuge, which was ...

Polaris will build a two-stage, horizontal take-off and fully reusable hypersonic research vehicle, featuring a linear aerospike rocket engine. German company Polaris Spaceplanes announced on Jan. 27, ...

Traveling at 5-times the speed of sound, skipping off the boundary of the upper atmosphere and descending upon enemy targets with unprecedented speed, emerging hypersonic weapons promise to massively ...

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Engine maker GE Aerospace and defence manufacturer Lockheed Martin have teamed up to test a novel ramjet propulsion system for powering hypersonic flight. The pair say they completed a series of ...

The rotating detonation ramjet engine provides a more compact, lightweight design than standard engine designs, and uses a continuous, self-sustaining detonation wave. GE Aerospace and Lockheed Martin ...