Pulse Detonation Engines Move Ahead in Hypersonic Race to Mach 4+

Credit: GENERAL ELECTRIC
General Electric is set to play a key role in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Vulcan program, which aims to design and ground test an engine capable of accelerating a full-scale hypersonic vehicle to speeds in excess of Mach 4. Unlike any previous U.S. government technology effort of...

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