Capable of beating radar.., most cities of Pakistan, China within range, India makes big move on hypersonic missile, it is developed by...
Indian Hypersonic missiles: In a significant development for India's air superiority, Dr. Sudhir Kumar Mishra, a senior scientist of DRDO and former CEO of Brahmos Aerospace revealed to media that DRDO has recently tested a hypersonic engine. Mishra also mentioned that the ground test of this engine was done in April 2025 at the Scramjet Connect Test Facility in Hyderabad. During the successful test, the scramjet engine worked continuously for 1,000 seconds (more than 16 minutes), making it the world's longest scramjet test, bringing India at par with countries like the US, Russia and China in hypersonic missile technology. DRDO successfully conducts scramjet engine ground test
Earlier, DRDO had successfully completed a cutting-edge Active Cooled Scramjet Combustor (engine) ground test for 120 seconds for the first time in India, which marked a crucial milestone in developing next-generation hypersonic missiles. What are Hypersonic missiles?
Hypersonic missiles are a class of advanced weaponry that travel at speeds greater than Mach 5 which is five times the speed of sound or more than 5,400 km/hr. These advanced weapons have the potential to bypass existing Air Defence Systems and deliver rapid and high-impact strikes, as per a report by news agency IANS. If India develops the finest quality of hypersonic missile, most cities of Pakistan and China will be under threat as the radars of both these countries will not able to be detect the speed of India's hypersonic missiles. Global race to Hypersonic missiles
The Ministry of Defence has said that several nations including the US, Russia, India and China are actively pursuing Hypersonic technology. Readers should note that the key to hypersonic vehicles is Scramjets, which are air-breathing engines capable of sustaining combustion at supersonic speeds without using any moving parts.
Talking about India's stance in the race to Hypersonic technology, Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), a Hyderabad-based laboratory has taken the initiative to develop a long-duration Supersonic Combustion Ramjet or Scramjet-powered Hypersonic technology.
Scramjet combustor incorporates an innovative flame stabilisation technique that holds continuous flame inside the combustor with airspeed in excess of 1.5 km/s. Many novel and promising ignition and flame-holding techniques were studied through many ground tests in arriving at the Scramjet Engine configuration.
(With inputs from agencies)
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