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Boeing has unveiled a new concept called the 'Revolver' launch system, designed to launch multiple hypersonic missiles from the back of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. This advanced launcher ...

Aerospace giant, Boeing, has unveiled its latest invention which allows one of the United States' most reliable troop carrier ...

Dubbed the Son of BlackBird, Boeing’s creation is a hypersonic beast capable of traveling at five times the speed of sound, or 3,863 MPH to be more specific. As a point of contrast, the F-35 ...

The Boeing 747-400 wide-body airliner has been ... their vehicles to either space of to hypersonic speeds horizontally. Whereas Virgin used to fire a rocket named LauncherOne to low Earth orbit ...

we expect to leverage their revolutionary technology to support Boeing's pursuit of hypersonic flight," said HorizonX vice president, Steve Nordlund. REL should get the keys to its future test ...

The US MDA completed the second flight test of the Hypersonic Test Bed (HTB), a test designated HTB-2 ... with some A-29 aircraft already allocated and ready for delivery. Boeing CEO notes “confidence ...

Hypersonic developer Stratolaunch has received ... The contract will help fund specialised modifications to a Boeing 747-400 passenger jet, which Stratolaunch will use as a carry vessel for ...

(Stratolaunch) Stratolaunch, a California-based firm building a reusable hypersonic test vehicle ... Spirit of Mojave, a Boeing-made 747-400 aircraft; and Roc, a much larger, two-fuselage aircraft ...

American Defense firm Kratos has signed a $1.5 billion contract, its largest ever, with the Department of Defense for a low-cost hypersonic testbed and related services, including subscale ...

The maker of the world's largest airplane is helping the U.S. Department of Defense test technologies at hypersonic speeds. Stratolaunch, whose turbofan-powered “Roc” boasts a longer wingspan ...

The plane would travel at hypersonic speed – more than 6,000km ... would only carry 50 passengers compared to the 200 a typical Boeing 737 can. Additionally, many issues still need to be tackled ...