The challenges in designing hypersonic missiles

Thirupalu Sep 26, 2022 26:34 PM



There is an arms race among developing and developed countries. Some developed hypersonic missiles and some are struggling to join that race. It is interesting to know what are challenges that one has to face in developing hypersonic missiles. This article briefly explains about those challenges.


Hypersonic missiles have become a hot topic these days. Recently, China has tested its hypersonic missile. Hypersonic ice missile has the speed equivalent to the number of times of the speed of sound. 

When an object travels with the speeds higher than sound by carrying lots of payloads such as munition, electronic equipment, etc, it needs to have a special design to deal with high temperatures, long distance travelling, safety of the electronic equipment, communication with the missile,  fuel sufficiency, accuracy in target hitting, etc.

In achieving all the above structural, chemical,  electrical and electronic engineers, space scientists, etc are subjected to face many challenges. It will be interesting to know these challenges.

The following is the link to know these challenges in detail to a brief extent.

https://www.flightglobal.com/flight-international/7-technical-challenges-that-need-to-be-overcome-by-hypersonic-missile-builders/138237.article


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