Watch the maiden flight of the XQ-58A Valkyrie

The XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator, a long-range, high subsonic unmanned air vehicle completed its inaugural flight Mar. 5, 2019 at Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona.


Video: U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory

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Taiwan studying J85 turbojet in order to develop power plant for cruise missile

The latest update from Taiwan says the island actually plans to reverse engineer the General Electric J85 small single-shaft turbojet engine so that it can develop a single-use power plant for its long-range cruise missile.

J85 ge 17a turbojet engine
Sanjay Acharya [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons

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