Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, General Director of the GRC Vladimir Degtyar said that thanks to experiments with the device conducted in the hypersonic wind tunnel CIAM, the main flight and tactical characteristics obtained in the calculations were confirmedYEKATERINBURG, February 9.
/tass/. The V. P. Makeev State Rocket Center (SRC) has developed a concept and manufactured a full-scale prototype of a multipurpose hypersonic aircraft. This was announced by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, General Director of the GRC Vladimir Degtyar.
"Based on the experience of the GRC [in the field of designing devices with hypersonic speeds] in cooperation with enterprises, in particular with CIAM im. Baranov, universities and academic institutes conducted research and proposed a concept for creating a universal multi-purpose hypersonic aircraft with a ramjet engine," Degtyar said on Thursday during Demidov readings, which are held at the Ural Federal University.
According to him, a full-scale prototype demonstrator of the aircraft was also made. Thanks to experiments with this device conducted in a hypersonic wind tunnel CIAM, the main flight and tactical characteristics obtained in the calculations were confirmed.
The Makeev SRC is the developer of the Sineva and Liner sea-based ICBMs, as well as the promising Sarmat mine-based ICBM.