Following their success in developing hypersonic missiles, China has now set its sights on creating a hypersonic aircraft. Should this endeavour prove successful, such an aircraft would possess the ...

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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 ...

DARPA’s Aurora Flight Sciences’ concept for the “Liberty Lifter” wing-in ... brought forth by the need for more mobility in the seas with an amphibious aircraft that can take off and land on water.

An artist’s illustration of DARPA’s Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 ... to engage drones, small aircraft and high-speed boats. Afloat Forward Staging Base (Interim) USS Ponce (ASB(I)-15 ...

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 has announced plans to launch its reusable Talon-A hypersonic testbed aircraft from the Spirit of Mojave, a modified Boeing 747, under a new $24.7 million agreement with the Missile ...

In December 2024, Kratos also announced it was awarded a $6.5 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to provide flight testing for hypersonic research supporting ...

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 ...