| Faster Radar Killer
Aviation Week & Space Technology
09/08/2008 , page 19
An integral rocket ramjet propulsion system for a higher speed, longer range anti-radar missile has been flight-tested under the U.S. Navy’s High Speed Anti-radiation Demonstration (HSAD) project. A test vehicle powered by Aerojet’s variable-flow ducted rocket (VFDR) ramjet was launched from a QF-4 over White Sands Missile Range, N.M., last month. The vehicle accelerated to supersonic speed and transitioned from rocket booster to ramjet propulsion, which sustained supersonic speed until the planned flight termination. |
