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GE Aerospace flies hypersonic engine with no moving parts

What has zero moving parts, yet can blast an aerial vehicle to velocities beyond Mach 5? The answer is the recently flight-tested Atmospheric Test of Launched Airbreathing System (ATLAS) powered by a ...
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Mach 6 hypersonic flight could soon be reality with detonation ramjet engine

Venus Aerospace has introduced its groundbreaking engine in an exciting development for high-speed aviation. The Venus Detonation Ramjet 2000 lb Thrust Engine (VDR2) was recently launched during the ...
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GE Aerospace demonstrates hypersonic dual-mode ramjet with rotating detonation combustion

GE Aerospace lifted the curtain on its comprehensive hypersonics program at its Research Center in Niskayuna, demonstrating what is believed to be a world-first hypersonic dual-mode ramjet (DMRJ) rig ...
NextBigFuture

Rotating Detonating Engines Can Enable Practical Hypersonic Planes

The main problem holding back reusable hypersonic planes is that traditional ramjet engines become very inefficient over mach 2 while hypersonic engines do not work well below mach 4. There is the ...
Aviation Week Network

GE Aerospace Tests Two Rotating Detonation Ramjets

GE Aerospace has recently successfully demonstrated two different rotating detonation combustion (RDC) engines—a ...
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U.S. Demos World's First Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet With Rotating Detonation Combustion

The world of hypersonics is perhaps just as captivating to some people as say space exploration is to others. After all, it's all about going really, really fast through Earth's atmosphere, many times ...
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World’s first underwater boron ramjet for hypersonic weapons achieves 90% efficiency

China has tested a powerful engine that can carry weapons at remarkable speeds through both air and water. The novel engine achieved 90% efficiency in laboratory tests, which were conducted in ...
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Howitzer Sceptre Shells With Ramjet Engines Hit Mach 3.5 Before Obliterating the Enemy

Artillery has been for a very long time one of the best ways to fight the enemy from very far away. The ability to strike from a safe distance is a godsend for soldiers, as it gives them the ability ...
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Futuristic GE Aerospace ramjet engine tests even better than expected

CINCINNATI (Cincinnati Business Courier) - GE Aerospace’s futuristic hypersonic engine has exceeded the company’s expectations in a breakthrough round of new tests. The dual-mode ramjet engine, which ...
NextBigFuture

First Look at the US ScramJet Hypersonic Missile

The US Air Force has given the first look at the the Air Force’s Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile. This will be a hypersonic missile with a supersonic ramjet engine that is scheduled for deployment ...

GE Aerospace Successfully Completes Supersonic Flight Tests of a Solid-Fueled Ramjet at Kennedy Space Center

GE Aerospace today announced the successful supersonic captive carry flight tests of its Atmospheric Test of Launched ...
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SR-72 ‘Son of Blackbird’ Could Hit 4,000 Miles Per Hour

Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 Son of Blackbird or “Darkstar” aims to replace the SR-71 with hypersonic ISR—and possibly strike—using a turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) that blends a turbofan for ...