The Global Hypersonic Race
... service. It may be the case that Beijing hopes to leap from subsonic straight to hypersonic, skipping supersonics altogether. China is believed to be working on at least two hypersonic programs. Since 2014, it has been testing the DF-ZF (dubbed Wu-14 in ... ... turbine-based combined-cycle engine capable of accelerating a vehicle to Mach 6. United States As part of the High Speed Strike Weapon (HSSW) program, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the United States Air Force are working on three hypersonic ...
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