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Significant Milestone for DRDO in Scramjet Engine Development
Hindustan Times Noida
|April 26, 2025
The Defence Research and Development Organisation on Friday conducted scramjet combustor ground testing for more than 1,000 seconds, with the defence ministry saying the DRDO has achieved a significant milestone in the field of hypersonic weapon technology.
NEW DELHI:
Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), a Hyderabad-based laboratory of the DRDO, has taken the initiative in developing a long-duration supersonic combustion ramjet or scramjet-powered hypersonic technology. DRDL conducted the long-duration active cooled scramjet subscale combustor ground testing for more than 1,000 seconds at the newly built state-of-the-art Scramjet Connect Test Facility at Hyderabad," the defence ministry said in a statement.
With the successful test, the system will be soon ready for full-scale flight-worthy combustor testing," it said.
The ground test is in continuation of the earlier test reported for 120 seconds in January, when the ministry had said that the DRDL had developed these technologies and demonstrated a cutting-edge active cooled scramjet combustor ground test for this duration for the first time in India.
This story is from the April 26, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Noida.
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