China's bold push to master hypersonic air-launched weapons - deploying cutting-edge drones, balloons and next-gen strike <a ...

Chinese researchers have presented a new design concept for a hypersonic aircraft, which they say is a big step towards one day flying from Beijing to New York in just a few hours. Which would no ...

The ”scramjet propulsion concept is still widely considered to be the most likely candidate for hypersonic aircraft to this day,” Alex Hollings wrote for Sandboxx. “A normal jet engine uses ...

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The concept of near-space hypersonic flight was first proposed by Qian Xuesen, the founding father of China’s space programme. He envisioned aircraft that could operate in the range between ...

This means that in the future, hypersonic aircraft could carry just as many passengers or as much cargo as today’s jumbo jets. They carried out the test flight at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch ...

The scientists claim that the aircraft prototype with a rather bulky body reached the speed of Mach ... One of the most interesting facts about this new design was that it steered away from the ...

MOSCOW, July 2. /TASS/. The trials of the Kinzhal hypersonic complex aboard the Tupolev Tu-22M3 strategic bomber are needed to check the aircraft’s ability to boost the complex’s missiles ...

The scientists claim that the aircraft prototype with a rather ... design was that it steered away from the general slim concepts for hypersonic vehicles that were surfacing around the globe.

Chinese scientists have sent a hypersonic aircraft with a remarkably bulky body soaring through the sky, reaching a speed that could cover the distance from Beijing to New York in two hours.