Key Points and Summary - Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has hinted for years at an SR-72 hypersonic successor to the SR-71, but the U.S. Air Force has never confirmed a program of record. -This piece ...

Hydrogen powered hypersonic flight is moving from speculative concept to detailed engineering plan, with aerospace startups and research partners sketching out aircraft that could cross continents in ...

Could a flight across the world take just two hours? It might, if we master hypersonic travel — and a group of Japanese ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hermeus has completed the first flight of its Quarterhorse Mk 1, a high-speed uncrewed aircraft designed to validate critical ...

Japan has taken another major step toward the future of hypersonic air travel, successfully testing a ramjet engine system designed for an experimental aircraft capable of reaching Mach 5 speeds. The ...

Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) have been flown by Venus Aerospace. They use continuous detonation waves for propulsion and provide 15% efficiency gains (in specific impulse or fuel consumption) ...

Equipping the Su-57 with hypersonic missiles would be a significant upgrade for the aircraft. However, multiple questions remain, including how many hypersonic missiles the Su-57 could carry. Russia’s ...

Using a subscale demonstrator, jet turbine manufacturer GE Aerospace successfully ignited a dual-mode ramjet engine using rotating detonation combustion – a technique the company says holds promise ...

Hermeus is pushing for Mach 5 flight with its Quarterhorse test program. See how this hypersonic tech aims to shrink travel times.

Readers have told us that military news is important to them and we have a reporter dedicated to bringing you the latest. Barrie Barber covers Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and military affairs for ...

Hypersonic weapons are capable of changing trajectory mid-flight, making them extremely difficult to intercept. While fielding sixth-generation technology and platforms is all the buzz as of late, a ...

The European Space Agency is throwing its weight behind a design effort for a hypersonic spaceplane, with hopes of getting the final idea airborne (and spaceborne) by 2031. The ESA is putting up ...