SHARP Gun Accelerates
Researchers here are demonstrating supersonic ramjet engine operation at speeds up to Mach 9 by firing 4-in.-dia. scramjet projectiles from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's SHARP light-gas gun. As part of U.S. Air Force Wright Laboratories-sponsored hypersonic airbreathing propulsion...
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