What is its propulsion and how fast does it achieve hypersonic speed?
—
At hypersonic speed, the propulsion system could be a ramjet, which is a shaped fuel reaction chamber where oxygen from the atmosphere is compressed, combined with fuel, and ignited. Picture a jet engine minus the turbine blades. To work, you need to boost the aircraft to hypersonic speed using a solid fuel booster or conventional jet engine.
So it needs propulsion first before it works?
I just don’t find the term ‘hypersonic missiles’ to be very credible.
My only question is: Does anybody have a missile that can be land launched that can achieve Mach 6-10 for any distance outside of a few hundred miles? And how long does it take for this missile to achieve that speed?
Ok. Two questions.
Just seems that this is science fiction as a bogey man.