Description: How Close Are We To Hypersonic Travel? Flying at hypersonic speed could revolutionize transportation, but there are incredible engineering and logistical challe
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Hypersonic flight is flight through the atmosphere at speeds above about Mach 5.5 , a speed where dissociation of air begins to become significant and high heat loads exist.
The V-2 rocket , first used in World War II by Nazi Germany and later used by the United States in its early rocketry work , was the first manufactured object to achieve hypersonic flight. In February 1949, its upper stage reached a maximum velocity of 5,150 miles per hour (8,288 kilometers per hour)—more than five times the speed of sound . The vehicle, however, burned on atmospheric re-entry , and only charred remnants were found. In April 1961, Russian Major Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel
US NEW Hypersonic Aircraft Shocked China There’s an ongoing silent battle between the US and China. The two largest economies in the world, these two nations have been able to fund their rivalry to unimaginable heights. Combined, both nations account for a military budget of over $1 trillion dollars – that’s more than the military budget of all other nations combined. Thanks to this budget, China and the US share the top two positions in a wide array of metrics — from the largest and second-largest active l