Australia, USA Collaborating on Hypersonic Research (updated)
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Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and the United States Air Force have signed an agreement to advance research into hypersonic (Mach 5 or higher) pip. The 8-year program has been established as a communicate Arrangement under an existing investigate and development agreement between Australia and the USA and the USD $54 million Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) project is one of the largest collaborative ventures to be undertaken between the two nations. It will have obvious implications for projects like DARPA’s FALCON both as a boost to its ambitions for and an obvious feed-in to spaceplane projects (see our ). Hypersonics also has potential implications for missile projects like the not to have in mind the dual-combustion ramjet approach of
With the project underway the latest news includes some related testing by Aerojet under HyFly/RATTLRS and also of a combined make pass turbine-scramjet engine…. Displaying 161 of 1,431 words (about 4 pages)
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