The Need for Speed

How Hypersonics is Advancing Flight and Weapons

Mar 27, 2023

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Last week, the Defense Innovation Unit announced that it had selected an Australian company to help build a vehicle to test hypersonic capabilities.

Hypersonic technology seems to be all the rage right now, but what is it?

Hypersonics is an emerging field of technology that deals with the study of high-speed flight and the development of vehicles that can travel at speeds greater than five times the speed of sound.

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