Hypersonic flight is no longer science fiction. In recent years, interest in aircraft capable of exceeding Mach 5 has surged, driven by strategic competition, defense challenges, and NASA’s pursuit of ...

The MiG-31 entered service in 1981 to guard Soviet airspace against American bombers. Rather than retire it after the Cold ...

Stratolaunch announced that its reusable Talon-A hypersonic aircraft has now completed over 10 successful ...

The U.S. has recently expanded one of its most advanced propulsion testing sites to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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