The USAF has announced a new $7 billion cash injection into its next-generation adaptive propulsion (NGAP) program.

This video unpacks the engineering concepts, from nuclear jet engines to unmanned designs, and the challenges that made these projects impractical. Learn how advancements in missile technology ...

From a purely tactical standpoint keeping the design of a cheap and reliable jet engine away from potential ... to be seeing it on GitHub anytime soon. Nuclear reactors are still fair game ...

When Nuclear Dreams Took Flight: The Quest for Atomic-Powered Aircraft To get a small reactor to fly, you essentially strip it of shielding and use its heat output to expand air instead of burning ...

The Air Force argued not quite so hard for a more advanced supersonic nuclear jet bomber. All believed that the Russians might soon have an atomic plane ready for testing. The U.S.’s atomic ...

pulsating Trembita engine. Its task is to destroy objects and exhaust the enemy’s anti-aircraft defense at a depth of up to 140 km. A pulse jet engine operates by generating thrust through a ...

It's a long story, and there's one thing I want to say straightaway: what gave us the jet engine was not just the work of one man, say myself, but teamwork. There were those of us who designed the ...

And when the ideal conditions are met, nuclear fusion takes place. Jet’s last experiment in December 2023 set the world record for fusion energy since the tokamak released 69 megajoules of fusion ...