When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The first hypersonic X-51scramjet powered long-duration flights to give the Pentagon a new ...

An experimental aircraft has set a new record for thelongest hypersonic flight after streaking across the sky Wednesday for morethan three minutes while flying at Mach 5 ? five times the speed of ...

Michael Holden, chief scientist and vice president of CUBRC’s aerosciences sector, shows off a model of an X51 scramjet, capable of flying more than 15 times the ...

Hypersonic missiles are often marketed as the next revolution in warfare, capable of flying faster than anything ever built and punching through air defenses with ease. The term hypersonic refers to ...