Breakthrough in the wind tunnel test of 10000 km/h(Mach 10) scramjet

[HariPrasad]

Please leave out all speculative Indian superiority and dick-measuring contests here. If you want to discuss India's achievements in this fields then fine in the Indian section but PLEASE not here ... and when doing so, then give proof.

Otherwise here it is off topic and politically.

What you say is true but please check who starts this every time.

Fives Years ago 2014 China first tested with a real hypersonic missile vehicle, and since then numerous tests have been successfully done. India tested a scramjet engine attached to a Sounding Rocket in 2016.

Weapons technology
China tests hypersonic missile vehicle

Pentagon confirms test of aircraft, dubbed the WU-14 and intended to hit targets at speeds of Mach 10

Agence France-Presse
Thu 16 Jan 2014 05.39 GMT Last modified on Wed 22 Feb 2017 18.40 GMT
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A hypersonic aircraft plunges towards the Pacific during a failed US test. China has conducted the first flight of its own version, the Pentagon has confirmed. Photograph: EPA

China has for the first time tested a hypersonic missile vehicle designed to travel several times the speed of sound, according to the Pentagon.

The test makes China the second country after the United States to conduct experimental flights with hypersonic vehicles, a technology that could allow armies to rapidly strike distant targets anywhere around the world.

"We're aware of the test of the hypersonic vehicle but we are not commenting on it," said Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Pool, a Pentagon spokesman.

The flight was conducted on 9 January and the Chinese vehicle, dubbed the WU-14, is supposed to travel at Mach 10, or 10 times the speed of sound, according to a report in the Washington Free Beacon, an online publication.

The Chinese state-run broadcaster China Radio International quoted the defence ministry information office as saying: "China's planned domestic scientific research and experiments are normal and are not aimed at any country or target."

It did not explicitly confirm or deny the test.

In its annual report on China's military the Pentagon made no mention of hypersonic test flights but did say the Chinese had built a hypersonic wind tunnel for experiments.

China's surging economic power has been matched by increasing military might, including investments in an aircraft carrier, anti-ship ballistic missiles, satellites and other hardware.

Three Republican lawmakers including the House armed services committee chairman, Howard "Buck" McKeon, expressed concern over the test of what they called a "Chinese hypersonic cruise missile" and said the US military was falling behind.

"While round after round of defence cuts have knocked America's technological advantage on its back, the Chinese and other competitor nations push toward military parity with the United States; in some cases, as in this one, they appear to be leaping ahead of us," they said.

"This situation does nothing to support peaceful coexistence in the Pacific," added the statement, also signed by representatives Randy Forbes and Mike Rogers.

The US has placed a high priority on hypersonic projects, spending $200m in the 2013 fiscal year on three programmes while conducting a number of test flights.

You certainly don't understand the difference between hypersonic missile and a scremjet powered vehicle. Do you?

Now read about indIn's hyper sonic missile tested long long ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaurya_(missile)

 

[Deino]

Again ... can we leave out the Indian system? It will immediately continue as either a political or comparative thread.

Thanks

 

[Ultima Thule]

Congratulations to China but the competitor are much ahead.

Which competitor India @HariPrasad

You certainly don't understand the difference between hypersonic missile and a scremjet powered vehicle. Do you?

Now read about indIn's hyper sonic missile tested long long ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaurya_(missile)

Its a BM, where the article states that's hyper-sonic scramjet vehicle as warheads, may be its carried boost glide vehicles, you know whats is the scramjet tech is @HariPrasad

 

[Han Patriot]

Which competitor India @HariPrasad

Its a BM, where the article states that's hyper-sonic scramjet vehicle as warheads, may be its carried boost glide vehicles, you know whats is the scramjet tech is @HariPrasad

All ballistic missiles reach a hypersonic speed during reentry. This genius thinks this is a hypersonic missile. hahahahahaha. There are only 3 countries with real hypersonic weapons, US China Russia.

 

[lcloo]

Hypersonic missile vehicle, not Ballistic missiles.

 

[ozranger]

Guys the wind tunnel ensures repeated testing of ignition in hypersonic airflow. It is intended for a hypersonic scramjet. So far only China and the US have been making significant progress in that direction and it is still quite distant to getting stable combustion in hypersonic airflow. The wind tunnel gives China an edge so that they can test and further develop the scramjet in lab environment without needing to fly it in the sky.

The wind tunnel build should be highly costly because it requires intensive R&D and very strong industrial support including supply of some very high-end components and materials. But once it's done, repeated testing becomes feasible.

The mentioned scramjet is completely different to the already popular ramjet, with which the airflow will be slowed down in the inlet to subsonic to produce stable combustion even though the vehicle flies supersonic. For example Brahmos works with such "subsonic" ramjet while the missile itself flies supersonic.

 

[Han Patriot]

Guys the wind tunnel ensures repeated testing of ignition in hypersonic airflow. It is intended for a hypersonic scramjet. So far only China and the US have been making significant progress in that direction and it is still quite distant to getting stable combustion in hypersonic airflow. The wind tunnel gives China an edge so that they can test and further develop the scramjet in lab environment without needing to fly it in the sky.

The wind tunnel build should be highly costly because it requires intensive R&D and very strong industrial support including supply of some very high-end components and materials. But once it's done, repeated testing becomes feasible.

The mentioned scramjet is completely different to the already popular ramjet, with which the airflow will be slowed down in the inlet to subsonic to produce stable combustion even though the vehicle flies supersonic. For example Brahmos works with such "subsonic" ramjet while the missile itself flies supersonic.

Please don't use the word Brahmos, use the correct name Yahkhont. . Exactly, what I was trying to say only 2 countries has got scramjets working...US and China. Our gangu friends think they are in the same league. LOL