The U.S. Air Force and DARPA are developing upon the X-51 Waverider’s hypersonic test flight to create a more comprehensive vehicle capable of travelling at speeds of up to Mach 5 by 2023.
“X-51 was really a proof of concept test. It showed that you could get a scramjet engine, launch it off an aircraft and it could go hypersonic,” U.S. Air Force Chief Scientist Mica Endsley, told Miltary.com. “It was able to go more than Mach 5 until it ran out of fuel. It was a very successful test of an airborne hypersonic weapons system.”
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“X-51 was really a proof of concept test. It showed that you could get a scramjet engine, launch it off an aircraft and it could go hypersonic,” U.S. Air Force Chief Scientist Mica Endsley, told Miltary.com. “It was able to go more than Mach 5 until it ran out of fuel. It was a very successful test of an airborne hypersonic weapons system.”
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