A Silver Surfer-style, air-breathing engine defied naysayers with its triumphant ... It weighs approximately 4,000 pounds with a fuel capacity about 270 pounds and currently has a ceiling of ...

The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) successfully air-launched the Solid Fuel Integral Rocket Ramjet (SFIRR ... is a simple air-breathing jet engine with no moving parts that uses ...

Reaction Engine's Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE ... SABRE has a precooler that uses recirculated cryogenic hydrogen fuel to cool incoming air down from 1,000° C (1,832° F ...

A test saw a ramjet missile engine weapon fired ... The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) successfully air-launched the Solid Fuel Integral Rocket Ramjet (SFIRR) from an unmanned ...

McAllister Professor of Mechanical Engineering, prepares a mixture for the synthesis of a solid fuel used in a rotating detonation engine (RDE ... are collaborating with the Air Force Research ...

"DMSRDE Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment (DMSRDE) has made a landmark achievement by developing liquid Ramjet fuel for an advanced air-breathing engine.

counter-drone systems and autonomous air systems. Adranos is best known for creating a solid rocket fuel dubbed ALITEC, made of an aluminum-lithium alloy. The company, founded at Purdue University ...

The system will be reusable, much like an aeroplane, with no need to jettison expensive fuel tanks during the launch. However, the compression of air at Mach 5 causes superheating, so the engine ...

Ramjets and scramjets are air-breathing ... engine could not only achieve similar or even greater speeds as other hypersonic engine designs, but could offer a significant boost in fuel economy ...

NAPLES, Italy — American and British researchers recently completed hundreds of successful tests of an engine ... Air-breathing engines use air to create the chemical reaction needed for fuel ...

A U.S. Navy flight test announcement revealed work is underway to revive a decades-old concept to miniaturize missiles by combining an air-breathing ramjet with a solid fuel rocket. The test ...