In the years following World War II, the American aviation industry and the military anticipated revolutionary changes in flight. The war had been fought largely with aircraft powered by reciprocating ...

Hypersonic weapons promise unmatched speed and reach, but they are held back by a fundamental engineering problem: propulsion ...

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a ...

The U.S. Navy successfully air-launched a Solid Fuel Integral Rocket Ramjet (SFIRR) from an unmanned vehicle for the first time, one step toward modernizing missile technology. The effort by Naval Air ...

Venus Aerospace has made the most efficient rocket engines ever flown. They will go from runway to mach 9 hypersonic speed. The Venus Aerospace Stargazer M4 is designed to reach a top speed of Mach 9, ...

The U.S. military has shown off a 'game-changing' rocket - based on 1960s tech. A test saw a ramjet missile engine weapon fired from an unmanned aircraft - a development set to allow greater range and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interestingly, the rocket engine was created entirely by an advanced artificial intelligence system. LEAP 71’s “Noyron,” a ...

A new type of rocket engine, one that could power a plane from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just two hours, has eluded scientists for decades. Houston's Venus Aerospace says it recently solved the puzzle.

There are many vehicles of all shapes and sizes capable of traveling at hypersonic speeds these days. Many of them are weapons or weapons platforms, but the world is currently looking at potential ...