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Aircraft that can fly at hypersonic speed, ie. between Mach 5 and 25. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. H.
The first manufactured object to achieve hypersonic flight was the two-stage Bumper rocket, consisting of a WAC Corporal second stage set on top of a V-2 first stage. In February 1949, at White Sands, the rocket reached a speed of 8,290 km/h (5,150 mph), or about Mach 6.7. [2]
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Known as WZ-8, this uncrewed reconnaissance drone is believed to be the world’s only hypersonic aircraft. It is similar to the U.S.’s air-launched D-21 drone that is capable of Mach 3—but ...
The North American X-15 is a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft.
In 2021, the Air Force awarded Hermeus a $60 million contract to develop three uncrewed concept aircraft, including the hypersonic “Quarterhorse.” Late last year, ...
A hypersonic weapon is a weapon capable of travelling at hypersonic speed, defined as above Mach 5, or above 5 times the speed of sound. [ 1 ] Below Mach 1, weapons would be characterized as subsonic , and above Mach 1, as supersonic .
Simulation of hypersonic speed (Mach 5) While the definition of hypersonic flow can be quite vague and is generally debatable (especially due to the absence of discontinuity between supersonic and hypersonic flows), a hypersonic flow may be characterized by certain physical phenomena that can no longer be analytically discounted as in supersonic flow.