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Air Force Gears Up for Hypersonic Missile Test

The Air Force later this month is set to test what could be a ground-breaking flight of a hypersonic missile. The X-51 WaveRider took its maiden flight last year, demonstrating the longest-ever flight of a supersonic combustion ramjet engine, also known as a scramjet. But the next test flight is expected to fly faster and...

Boeing Proposes Missile With Global Reach

(March 18) -- For nearly a decade, the Pentagon has grappled with finding a way to field a weapon with the speed and range of an intercontinental ballistic missile, but without the political ramifications of launching a nuke. Now Boeing says it has the answer: a revived 1980s-era hypersonic missile that could strike...

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02/25/12 BrahMos to Tie-up With NIT-Tiruchi Source: Outlook BrahMos Aerospace, an Indo-Russian joint venture producing and marketing Brahmos supersonic cruise missiles, plans to take up collaborative research activities with educational institutions, including the National Institute of Technology here, for development of hypersonic version of the missiles, a top official said today.
01/10/12 Hypersonic Missile to be ready in five years Source: moneycontrol.com Coimbatore,Jan10 (PTI) With the air-version of BrahMos missile likely to be inducted in IAF within a year,works have already been started to develop BrahMos 2, the fastest Hypersonic missile in the world, which would take final shape in five years, a top scientist said.
06/12/11 Work on BrahMos' hypersonic version to begin this... Source: Sify New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) Development of a hypersonic version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile will begin this year, while tests of the air-launched version of the existing missile will begin next year, a senior Russian official said Sunday.
03/01/11 Will S-500 system be good against Minotaur IV? Source: Pravda On December 16, Russian military experts gathered for a round table discussion organized by RIA Novosti news agency.
02/12/11 Aero India 2011: Cruise missile Nirbhay will be ready... Source: DNA (Daily News & Analysis) The country's first indigenous subsonic cruise missile, Nirbhay (Fearless), will be ready early next year.