The U.S. Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon ... and former commander of an aircraft carrier strike force. Conventional missiles ...

More than two decades after the retirement of the Concorde, American aircraft company Boom Supersonic has achieved supersonic flight with its XB-1 prototype in a test flight above the Mojave Desert.

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the Mach 1.7 Overture will keep the US aviation industry ahead of China in the ...

A Chinese start-up has said its superfast drone – capable of reaching four times the speed of sound – will make its first flight next year as military hypersonic technology trickles down to ...

The era of supersonic passenger flights is now on the horizon,’ says chief engineer, as hypersonic tech trickles down to ...

Weighing 1.5 tonnes, the 7-meter UAV with two detonation engines will fly next year, paving the way for a supersonic passenger jet by 2030.

A Chinese start-up unveils Cuantianhou, a hypersonic drone reaching Mach 4, aiming to adapt military tech for supersonic passenger jets.

Story continues below this ad The key to hypersonic vehicles is scramjets, which are variants of a category of jet engines called the air breathing engines. The ability of the engines to handle ...

The successful ground test marks a "crucial milestone in developing next-generation hypersonic missiles", the ministry added. "The ground test of scramjet combustor showcased several notable ...

Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), a Hyderabad-based laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Tuesday successfully conducted a ground test of scramjet ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier ... the Boom Overture could carry 64 to 80 passengers on transatlantic journeys that ...