On May 1, 2013, Boeing’s X-51A Waverider was dropped from a B-52 Stratofortress over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated to Mach 4 ...

A proposal for a new DARPA program would fund four new flight tests of a scramjet-powered cruise missile to build on lessons learned from the ongoing Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC), ...

They call it a "scramjet," an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in about 20 minutes -- or even quicker. So fast it could put satellites ...

In March 2025, a missile launched from a test range in the Pacific arced into the upper atmosphere, separated its rocket ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne and the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have achieved a new record thrust output from a scramjet engine, providing a boost for hypersonic flight. A year of ground testing ...

India’s long-anticipated push toward developing the BrahMos-2 hypersonic cruise missile appears to be encountering ...

FASTT LAUNCH: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research successfully flew a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from Wallops Island, Va., on Dec. 10 as part of the ...

Another successful flight test was accomplished by the collaborative Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) of the US Air Force and DARPA. With its Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet, the Lockheed ...

NASA’s X-43A research vehicle screamed into the record books today, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. Preliminary data from the scramjet-powered ...

High Temperature Composite scramjet manufacturing pilot successfully completed Hypersonix has taken delivery of a technology demonstrator version of its hydrogen powered scramjet manufactured in High ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Had the X-24C been successful in testing, America would likely have leveraged scramjet technology in more platforms. Today scramjet propulsion is the subject of ...