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Discover how Elon Musk’s revolutionary hypersonic fighter aircraft is redefining the future of aerospace technology by breaking traditional speed limits and challenging the laws of physics. This ...

The hypersonic missles can travel at speeds of more than 3,830 miles per hour and typically travel at high altitudes of up to 50 miles above sea level. (Image credit: U.S. Navy/General Dynamics ...

The scientists claim that the hypersonic aircraft prototype with a rather bulky body reached the speed of Mach 6.56 in flight test.

NASA flew the autonomous X-43 test vehicle to hypersonic speed two times in 2004, and the Air Force demonstrated an air-breathing scramjet engine at Mach 5.1 with the X-51 Waverider aircraft in 2013.

Earlier, in the past decade Taiwan had developed the Yun Feng supersonic land-attack cruise missile. It had a range of 745 miles (1,200 km), and an extended range variant with over 1,243 mile ...

Hermeus, a venture capital-backed firm building high-speed aircraft, flew its Quarterhorse vehicle for the first time last week at Edwards Air Force Base in California, the company said. The ...