X-51A Waverider missile of US Air Force has sustained an amazing record of Mach 6. The nextgen-scramjet-technology-powered X-51A Waverider was launched over the southern California coast. A remarkable speed of sound has been marked by X-51A Waverider missile.
The US Air Force affirmed that its X-51A Waverider cruise missile – a next-generation vehicle powered by scramjet technology – has reached a speed of Mach 6 during the test. As stated by the Air Force, the X-51A Waverider was carried by a B-52 aircraft having an altitude of 50,000 feet.
The X-51A Waverider have sustained a Mach 6 speed for approximately 200 seconds. The 200 seconds at Mach 6 have marked the record to beat the previous scramjet record of 12 seconds. As stated by the Associated Press, Charlie Brink, an X-51A program manager at the Air Force Research Laboratory, titled the flight historic.
“We are ecstatic to have accomplished many of the X-51A Waverider test points during its first hypersonic mission,” Brink stated. “We equate this leap in engine technology as equivalent to the post-World War II jump from propeller-driven aircraft to jet engines.”
A Mach 6 speed of sound, that’s how the scramjet-powere X-51A Waverider is defined!
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