India’s air defence capabilities, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), is reportedly investing in ...

In the wake of World War II, as aviation rocketed into the jet age, Lockheed's Skunk Works developed the Lockheed X-7 - an ...

"The ramjet cycle thus greatly increases the engine's delivered performance and ... concerns about the feasibility of applying solid fuel ramjet technology to the Stinger form factor," Gibbs ...

It is powered by a traditional solid fuel rocket motor -- a self ... does not need to be carried on board. The ramjet cycle thus greatly increases the engine’s delivered performance and ...

outside air enters the combustion chamber through a port at the front of Stinger's solid fuel rocket motor, rather than being stored on board, and ignites the ramjet fuel. "The ramjet cycle thus ...

It is essentially a two-stage weapon that launches with a solid-fuel booster that detaches after take-off. The ramjet engine filled with ramjet fuel that achieves a speed of Mach 3 in no time.

A test saw a ramjet missile engine weapon fired from an unmanned ... successfully air-launched the Solid Fuel Integral Rocket Ramjet (SFIRR) from an unmanned vehicle for the first time, which ...