The VDR2 will have the high thrust and efficiency needed to power an aircraft to speeds of up to Mach 6 and an altitude of 170,000 ft (52,000 m) and is 15% more efficient than conventional engines, if ...

USS Langley S. Navy made a groundbreaking decision that would change naval warfare forever. The USS Jupiter, a humble coal ...

is developing 3D-printed dark ceramics components that are tough enough to bear the extreme conditions that missiles or aircraft will have to face during hypersonic flights. The research team ...

The partnership aims to produce an affordable, hypersonic military drone made by Cummings in the near-term, while maturing the propulsion system for eventual use... Cummings, ATRX Launch ...

Hypersonic aerial ammunition would increase the lethality and survivability of special-operations gunships, proponents argue. Credit: U.S. Air Force Space-based interceptors might have jumped to ...

While there are dozens of these types of military transport aircraft, the five detailed here are the biggest of them all, and it's unlikely anyone will build them larger than these beasts.

We are throwing money at imports while slipping behind competitors—China, certainly, but also Iran, South Korea, and ...

Competition for India’s Medium Transport Aircraft (MTA) requirement is heating up, with both Embraer and Lockheed Martin talking up industrial work at the Aero India show. The announcements ...

The ability to break free from the binds of gravity, transcend the sound barrier, to transport ... Concorde), military aircraft routinely operate at supersonic (and hypersonic) speeds—that ...

It will make it possible to meet the demands of future airspace users over the next 50 years, including civil and military unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), supersonic and hypersonic transport, ...