India successfully test hypersonic missile carrier
India on Monday became the fourth country after the United States, Russia and China to develop and successfully test hypersonic technology, This indigenous technology will pave the way towards development of missiles travelling at six times the speed of sound (Mach 6).
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tweeted that the HSTDV used the indigenously developed scramjet propulsion system.
“With this success, all critical technologies are now established to progress to the next phase,” he said.
The HSTDV is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic speed flight. Besides its utility for long-range cruise missiles of the future, the technology has multiple civilian applications also. It can be used for launching satellites at low cost too, according to government officials.
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