Ramjet engine tested by the Chinese
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First, what you see is the heat shield, not the vehicle itself. The shield will be separated some 30km above ground, so you will never see the vehicle unless PLA deliberately want to show it.
Wave-rider is the type of aero-dynamic shape of this kind of vehicle. It can be used by either a HGV (glider) or a Scramjet powered hypersonic vehicle. Saying waverider does not reveal anything. It is correctly used in this report.
I could not find the video of CCTV-13 report in #51, so I don't know what CCTV has said about it. But there is another relatively reliable report by China Science network which is owned by China Science & Technology News which is created by CAS and COSTIND, as reliable as CCTV-13 if not more. Here it is
The bold texts.
国内第一乘波体, ride wave body
抛罩, eject shield
滑翔飞行, gliding fly
Thank you for the clarification.
I wonder about this as well. If it were just a regular HGV like DF-ZF then it would certainly not be China's first domestic "waverider". Perhaps the glider is shaped differently? Either that or the vehicle was powered.
AssassinsMace
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From what I've read, supposedly waveriders use the hypersonic pulse "waves" created by the engine to add lift to the vehicle. I remember when it was first reported of China's successful hypersonic tests, the US was making that distinction. Of course the media will spin that means China doesn't have one developing hence the US is ahead as in the X-51A.
Jura The idiot
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If the medias did say so, it is a spin in favor of X-51A.
Here I find a detailed explanation of waverider concept. . Anything go over supersonic will create shockwave, regardless how it reach and sustain that speed. Even the Space Shuttle (unpowered landing) is a waverider albeit a leaky one due to the need for thermal protection. The shockwave will provide lift (compression lift) to any plane (even ordinary wings), the preferred shape of a waverider is a wedge like body with underside concavity to keep the wave from leaking.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
From Henri K blog
Mach 6, 400 seconds ... Successful test of a Chinese hypersonic Waverider
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The event itself is not a surprise in itself, knowing the very great interest that the majority of Chinese institutions has brought in this area which is the hypersonic, whether propelled or not propelled. But rare, see very rare, are tests that were reported the same evening in the public media, openly, as was the case last week for the device Waverider Xing Kong 2 (星空 二号).
According to , a Waverider-type hypersonic device designed by the Chinese aerospace subsidiary CASC has successfully completed its first test flight west of China. August 3 in the morning.
Separated from its carrier rocket, the CAAA Experimental Waverider then completed an autonomous flight lasting more than 400 seconds, at an altitude of 30 km, with a speed between Mach 5.5 and Mach 6. The test lasted a total of "Nearly 10 minutes", including the powered up phase and the fallout to the ground.
The text also mentions complete monitoring throughout the flight, using optical, radar and telemetry, as well as the integrity of the scientific data collected and the wreckage recovered.
Mach 6, 400 seconds ... Successful test of a Chinese hypersonic Waverider
BY
The event itself is not a surprise in itself, knowing the very great interest that the majority of Chinese institutions has brought in this area which is the hypersonic, whether propelled or not propelled. But rare, see very rare, are tests that were reported the same evening in the public media, openly, as was the case last week for the device Waverider Xing Kong 2 (星空 二号).
According to , a Waverider-type hypersonic device designed by the Chinese aerospace subsidiary CASC has successfully completed its first test flight west of China. August 3 in the morning.
Separated from its carrier rocket, the CAAA Experimental Waverider then completed an autonomous flight lasting more than 400 seconds, at an altitude of 30 km, with a speed between Mach 5.5 and Mach 6. The test lasted a total of "Nearly 10 minutes", including the powered up phase and the fallout to the ground.
The text also mentions complete monitoring throughout the flight, using optical, radar and telemetry, as well as the integrity of the scientific data collected and the wreckage recovered.