Chinese scientists have created a new high-power wind tunnel in Sichuan Province that is capable of recreating the most extreme conditions by flying at speeds exceeding 33 times the speed of sound. This is also the largest wind tunnel on the planet.
The Vyatrniyat tunnel can reproduce speeds of 2.5 to 11.5 km per second or a record-breaking Mach 33-33 times the speed of sound, the South China Morning Post reports. By comparison, spacecraft that enter the Earth's atmosphere from orbit typically reach only a speed of Mach 25.
Inside the tunnel, you can test not only hypersonic weapons and vehicles that have speeds exceeding the Mach 5, but also spaceships, from any mission – from returning to Earth, to exiting gravity and landing on other planets.
Another similar wind tunnel in Beijing, called JF-22, is expected to be opened soon as the facility will be able to replicate the speed of Mach-30.
Beijing invested heavily in hypersonic technology and hypersonic weapons development, which were able to evade almost any type of air defense system. Chinese scientists are also working on designs for cargo and passenger flights at speeds above Mach 5.The fastest such aircraft currently in use does not even reach Mach 1 – the speed of sound.
Last week, Chinese researchers in Beijing announced that they had successfully and repeatedly installed ground communications from a hypersonic vehicle. The breakthrough could help ground control to avoid a period of upsetting the relationship between earth and spacecraft during their entry into the atmosphere or allow the military to give precise commands to hypersonic weapons in mid-flight, including terminating their missions at any time.
https://obektivno.bg/kitaj-sazdade-hiperzvukov-tunel-za-rekordni-skorosti-ot-33-mach/
Chinese scientists have created a new high-power wind tunnel in Sichuan Province that is capable of recreating the most extreme conditions by flying at speeds exceeding 33 times the speed of sound. This is also the largest wind tunnel on the planet.
The Vyatrniyat tunnel can reproduce speeds of 2.5 to 11.5 km per second or a record-breaking Mach 33-33 times the speed of sound, the South China Morning Post reports. By comparison, spacecraft that enter the Earth's atmosphere from orbit typically reach only a speed of Mach 25.
Inside the tunnel, you can test not only hypersonic weapons and vehicles that have speeds exceeding the Mach 5, but also spaceships, from any mission – from returning to Earth, to exiting gravity and landing on other planets.
Another similar wind tunnel in Beijing, called JF-22, is expected to be opened soon as the facility will be able to replicate the speed of Mach-30.
Beijing invested heavily in hypersonic technology and hypersonic weapons development, which were able to evade almost any type of air defense system. Chinese scientists are also working on designs for cargo and passenger flights at speeds above Mach 5.The fastest such aircraft currently in use does not even reach Mach 1 – the speed of sound.
Last week, Chinese researchers in Beijing announced that they had successfully and repeatedly installed ground communications from a hypersonic vehicle. The breakthrough could help ground control to avoid a period of upsetting the relationship between earth and spacecraft during their entry into the atmosphere or allow the military to give precise commands to hypersonic weapons in mid-flight, including terminating their missions at any time.
https://obektivno.bg/kitaj-sazdade-hiperzvukov-tunel-za-rekordni-skorosti-ot-33-mach/
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