China's hypersonic aircraft, Yunxing, aims to travel at Mach 4. Lingkong Tianxing Technology plans to launch it by 2027, cutting London to New York flights to 1.5-2 hours ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow ...

They can reach thousands of kilometers, enabling them to overcome defenses. In contrast, Hypersonic aircraft utilize existing military munitions and deliver payloads, returning for reloading. Despite ...

The situation might change with the Quarterhorse, a hypersonic passenger plane technology demonstrator. Hypersonic vehicles are commonly associated with weapons. They are gliding or propulsion ...

The startup promises to fill a void in one area where US military research and development has been caught flat-footed.

The DRDO chief was delivering the inaugural address at the two-day national conference on composites, which began in Pune on Thursday.

The Talon has been in the news for some time now, not in small part because it is described as America's first privately funded, reusable hypersonic aircraft. It is basically a testbed that can be ...

Stratolaunch previously test flew the gargantuan aircraft for the Navy under a project called the Multiservice Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB). It deployed Talon-A, an autonomous ...

Stratolaunch is upgrading its 747 carrier platform to support test flights of its hypersonic Talon-A vehicle. (Stratolaunch) ...

(Stratolaunch) Stratolaunch, a California-based firm building a reusable hypersonic test vehicle, is modifying its carrier aircraft to support high-speed test missions around the globe. Through a ...