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AFRL Achieves Record-Setting Hypersonic Ground Test Milestone

A U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Air Force Test Center ground test team set a record for the highest thrust produced by an air-breathing hypersonic engine in Air Force history. “AFRL, in conjunction with Arnold Engineering Development Complex and Northrop Grumman, achieved over 13,000 pounds of thrust from a scramjet engine during testing

DARPA RFP – Extreme Environment Sensors and Instrumentation for Hypersonic Testing and Operations

DARPA”s goal is to develop harsh-environment sensors and instrumentation rugged enough to stand up to the heat, shock, and vibration of hypersonic flight. U.S. military researchers are asking industry to develop flight-control instruments and sensors able to withstand the extreme heat, shock, and vibration of hypersonic missiles and aircraft. Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced

Hypersonics Development a Pentagon Top Technical Priority

WASHINGTON ― As China and Russia threaten to overtake the U.S. with new technologies, development of hypersonic capabilities is the “highest technical priority” for Michael Griffin, the Pentagon’s new undersecretary of defense for research and engineering. “I’m sorry for everybody out there who champion some other high priority, some technical thing; it’s not that I