As a defense contractor for the US Air Force, I had a colleague that had worked on the Bomarc, a supersonic ramjet missile deployed in the late 1950s. It had a range of 700km, with a top speed of Mach 2.5.

A ramjet missiles was used by the U.S. Navy starting in the late 50's . It was called Talos.

As far as I remember RIM-8 Talos used ramjet in 1958.

The ramjet was conceived in 1913 by French inventor René Lorin, who was granted a patent for his device In 1915, Hungarian inventor Albert Fonó devised a solution for increasing the range of artillery, comprising a gun-launched projectile which was to be united with a ramjet propulsion unit In the Soviet Union, a theory of supersonic ramjet engines was presented in 1928 by Boris Stechkin. Yuri Pobedonostsev, chief of GIRD's 3rd Brigade, carried out a great deal of research into ramjet engines. The first engine, the GIRD-04, was designed by I.A. Merkulov and tested in April 1933 and so on

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A Ramjet is nothing new..but in this package it could be a gamechanger. Lets see.

A number of Surface to Air Missiles used Ramjet Propulsion example: RIM-8 TALOS (1958), CIM-10 BOMARC (1959), and UK's Bloodhound (1959). So using ramjets in missiles is not new. In this case the uses a solid fuel ramjet to greatly increase range by providing positive thrust, instead of base-bleed merely cutting the drag...

Bristol Bloodhound surface to air missile entered service with the RAF in 1958 and continued in service until the 1990's. It used rocket boosters to get the missile up to speed then the ramjets took over. I worked on the launchers as an apprentice in Bristol.

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The FIRST and largest US Navy ship-fired AA missile introduced around 1960, the TALOS, was ramjet-powered and, until better rocket fuels were introduced for higher speeds and uplink-controlled missile guidance allowed optimum high-altitude mid-trajectory flight (SM-2 and after, including Aegis), TALOS was the longest-range AA missile the US Navy had, thougn not the fastest and very bulky, so it needed very large ships and this finally caused it to be decommissioned.

I think these guys are friggen brilliant. I cannot wait to meet them to assist me with a new project I have coming up in a few years!!

Careful Chinese may have already bugged your systems to copy the technology.

The question remains how these rockets reach mach-3 speeds, in order for the ramjet to work. If a rocket motor is used in addition, the system will get more complex, and some of the improved fuel efficiency will be negated. If these are launched from aircraft or drones, and no rocket motor shall be used, these aircraft will have to fly much faster than current gen fighters.

Simple terms. SR 71 engine on a rocket

Bristol Bloodhound from the 1950's or 60's Mach 3 and 190Km range?

There's something about seeing a missle tear ass into the wild blue yonder. It's like "there he goes boys. Some poor bastard's very last bad day."

This comment thread is sharing a fascinating body of knowledge. Cheers!

The Soviets, Americans and a bunch of others had working ramjets decades ago, it shouldn't be presented as new technology.

Ramjet engines was invented before the real jet engines

okay so don't you need the missile to already be moving for this to work in order to starting the mixing of the air and fuel i can see it working on an aircraft but how do you get initial take off.

It will go so fast and be so much better than the last generation missile that it should cause world peace and good will to all people.

actually so simple with no new technologies and no one tought about doing this before awesome hahaha

Nice, very impressive missil engine! Great job . Wel done. Keep this thecnic away from stealing guys, please. This must stay as higly classified.

The UK produced two ram jet boosted AGM missiles in the late 1950's the Thunderbird and the longer range Bloodhound. The Bloodhound particularly the MK2 version was highly regarded and only phased out of Swedish service in the early. 2000's

"the biggest invention since the introduction of the jet engine" 1st jet engine ever invented was a ramjet...

To Nammo - the summary under the title states Jet engine invented in the 1040's instead of 1940's This is obviously a typo error. You may want to correct thus

If it doesn't carry oxidizer, how would it reached the very high speed needed for ramjet to work though?

interesting stuff, kinda surprised this hasn't been apart of previous weapons systems since the concept of a ramjet and it's use is fairly old. Must be some progression in manufacturability that has made this cheaper or easier to make. but I suppose there are limits to it, like if launched from an aircraft the craft itself would have to be traveling at the operational speed for it to work otherwise it would need an additional stage to get the missile up to speed for the ram jet to work.

The true limiting factor is how far the radar can see that guides the missile (at least when we're talking AA like the PATRIOT system, etc.)

Will low atltitude engagements kill the range of this missile. They omly work high up

The SA-4, SA-6, Bomarc, Talos, Bloodhound and the Sea Dart were Ramjet powered Air Defence missiles. The Meteor is a current ramjet powered AAM. India is working on a ramjet powered Astra AAM. Moskit, Oniks, Brahmos, ASMP, Hsuing Feng -3, XASM-3 are ramjet powered strike missiles. So what's new about ramjet propulsion?

Taiwanese ramjet anti ship missile is doing well now. The Hsiung-Feng III anti ship missile.

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i have that in my mind 20years now! and more!

Ballistic ramjet missiles ... Lord have mercy.

This ramjet concept have stability?! What happened when is raining, snowing, in minuses (-54) or (+65) temperatures ...

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How do you get the missile to Mach 3 in the first place?

Not taking away anything from this video... Can't help to think of Norsemen on Netflix when listening to the narrator.

300 seconds at mach 3 is 300+km range wow

Dr. Evil talking about rocket

He can not be used from ground with Out a catapulta right?

Watching those Ramjet rockets take off is amazing, I hope the NASA astronauts inside made it home ok.

Destroyers and battleships should carry those !

Now i do feel safer. Its kind of odd nobody looked into ramjets before, because the concept is older than the modern jet engine. Ive seen guys make a pulsejet in high-school for their graduation project. We were 17 back then. I remember it needed a lot of initial air before it started properly. So they used a blower to get the engine running. But once it ran, it ran. It did make a lot of noise though. I bet that if you have enough air due to the high airspeed it will do its thing. No problem. The only thing is how do you convince a client? "Results dont lie" or so they say say..

How does it gain speed to Mach 3 for ramjet to work tho?

The problem with high speed long range anti aircraft missiles is that they are easy to evade due to the laws of physics. Think of Bugs Bunny sidestepping a raging bull. The higher the speed difference, the harder the target is to hit. I suppose this is why the Meteor missile contains a restartable ramjet motor.

I knew it! The "jet engine was invented in the 1040s," several decades before the Battle of Hastings. Which is why--as I've always said--William the Conqueror had F-14s, and the Normans won the battle, because with their old propeller-fighters, the English couldn't maintain air-superiority.... i know, it's a simple mistake. but i found it funny to imagine. I thought ramjets were already in our current missiles, I'm surprised that they aren't. i see in the comments many have mentioned working with ramjet missiles or rockets, since the 1950s.... so I'm a bit confused as to why they were not already standard.

Even spacex boosters?

A lot of people point that ramjets are nothing new and it is true. The thing is that ramjets were mostly limited to large missiles like Bristol Bloodhound (2,2t) and RIM-8 Talos (3.5t). Soviets had some smaller ones like 2k12 KUB (600kg) but their range isn't that impressive. Rockets won (are more widely used) because they are simpler to design, control and deploy in field. You have your own oxidizer so you can control the burn more easily making a rocket easier to operate in wide range of weather conditions. With ramjets you need to take into account atmospheric conditions, because they take the oxidizer from the air. The thing is, that now we have much better computers both in macro and micro scale and this changes everything. We have powerful supercomputers with sophisticated fluid dynamic models so we can design simpler engines tuned to wider range of speeds and conditions. We also have incredibly fast and light computers and sensors that can control those engines in real time. Modern computers give us a big opportunity to make smaller, simpler and more reliable ramjets then before. Compare it to multi rotor drones and helicopters. Multi rotors are nothing new, a lot of the early helicopters were multi rotors like prototype of Sikorsky VS-300 (1940). What made modern multi rotors so successful is control systems. You do not need fancy mechanical blade pitch control if you have multiple propellers and can independently control their speeds fast enough. So we went from hard to pilot, expensive and impossible to miniaturize helicopters, to easy and cheap multi rotors, some of them size of a matchstick box and easy enough to be pilot by a 7 year old in their bedrooms.

? how to get that initial required velocity ?

Germans used ramjet missiles called the V-1 and used a catapult to attain velocity to enable the ramjet

the 1040's?

The only problem is: Ramjets need to be accelerated to supersonic by a traditional rocket first, until they reach higher supersonic speeds. They are not very efficient yet.

I thought that ramjust was only operating in the mach 3 to 6 range, and that's why the scramjet was invented to exceed this limit.

The illustration showed 100% fuel. What gets the rocket up to speed? Surely an oxidizer is needed to get the rocket to speed before the ramjet works successfully???

Supersonic rockets with long range technologies, this is not bad, but we already are talking about hypersonic rockets developed by Russians and Chinese.

you still have to get their 3000 mph

Aren't initiatially developed in USSR russian heavy P-800 Oniks, exported as Yakhont and licensed in India as Brahmos ramjet driven? Previous soviet generation Granit and following after Oniks - Alfa are also ramjets. And as far as I remember first in late 50s early 60s till 90s long range SAMs in USA, UK and USSR second stages were also ramjet driven. If I'm not mistaken in the USSR GIRD tested ramjet in the 30s before first prototype turbojets were tested in UK and Germany.

What you mean further then today what futuristic life you be livin

Cool, now instead of using solid rocket propeller to get to mach speeds, use a rail gun

That is the most game-changing technological innovation that I've seen in a very long time. That is absolutely brilliant. I am very proud to be descended from Norwegians. -Ariel Isaac Traasdahl #Ihaveahighschooleducation 💀♠️🎯

What about payload?

Nothing new. The US Navy's Talos missile was a ramjet powered antiair weapon launched from a ship, and had a range of over 250 km (130 miles), and altitude ceiling of over 80,000 feet, and a speed of Mach 2.5.

This is the same concept for today's hypersonic missiles and glide vehicles?

Uthred Ragnarsson, is that you?

I agree that the jet engine was invented in 1040

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WHat is new here? The Meteor and other missiles have this propulsion too

Let’s see how it works for an ICBM!

I am sure the Ramjet can take the missiles further.But there is need for more powerful Radars and better guidance.I believe Indo Russia Joint venture Brahmos has both,apparently good for 500-600 kms.Russia has better missiles in Kalibr,S-400 and Zircon systems using scram Jet engines.

... where will the warhead be located ...

1:40 cannot be shot from a 155mm. it's got fins

One example if a operational missile Brahmos supersonic cruise missile

The problem is that that type of engine needs to be moving very fast before it can be lit. Something like 2 or 3 times the speed of sound. So it cant be lit from a stand still.

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When can I get this in a 12 guage slug?😁

Except with stealth technology, how is an AA mobile radar going to track a target 500km away? The return signal will be too faint to track. The missile will have to have a sophisticated autonomous radar onboard. Distance from launch sight will be a problem.

Soviet missile 2k12 KUB is with second stage ramjet propulsion since 1967. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K12_Kub

The Brahmos has already got it a decade ago. What's new about it?

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Atmospheric oxygen is only 21% of the air, and the density of the air diminishes with altitude. This puts a real constraint on the performance of the engine, and limits the operating parameters of the missile. Cruise Missiles in current use already use jet propulsion, as far back as the Nazi V-1.

They are saying speed and ranges, but nothing really about G turns those can pull. In a fight for aerial supremacy a fighter could just pull a S turn and make the missile go in a complete diffenece way. Not to mention the low speed retention a ramjet has compared to a rocket

Good idea. Though it has been operational since 1968 as part of the russian Kub missile. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K12_Kub

Common Air breathing Ram jets are not new... We have been using them since ages now...

The American have those during the cold war, talos missile uses a ram jet and have a range of 180km, but those aren't used anymore because Ramsey are far more complex than solid rocket motor.

Maybe you can kill an airplane with a howitzer?

Who's thinking of daft punk? ( harder better faster stronger :-P )

booooooo misleading thumbnail, I was expecting a prototype launch. Think we all know it'd be amazing if it's able to be done effectively, the problem is doing it =D

Why not use such great technology for something besides killing?

Ramjet is there since many years. Russian defence industries have been using this technology for a while. We Indians manged to develop the fastest antiship land attack cruise system which has an ability to be launched from air surface and submarines. This invention of yours is a truely a game changer Now the only challenge remains that is to make it even lighter. BRAMHOS NG will b tested for the 1st time in 2021-2022.

BRAHMOS is a ramjet

Thanks KZfaq, until today I wasn´t even aware that I am on the market for high-tech long-range missiles.

Damn, a 5-6 minute burn time is no joke. That's a long time.

Biggest invention since the jet engine is taking it too far!

Conveniently doesn’t address the problem with a ramjet missile, you have the get ramjets up to speed before they work. Such clear marketing bs without addressing fundamental limitations.

It's amazing that ramjets were first conceived and patented in 1913, worked on in WWI and WWII, in the US in the 1950s, and NOW, now it's slowly moving into production? I actually wonder what technology the public isn't allowed to know about is atm, because the plausibility that there are no working weapons, planes, etc., using ram or scramjets is impossible given the US spent ~50 Trillion dollars on defense over the years. I want to be in the break away society that has the actual tech, it really does suck to be a pleb in the Western world.

Inventions are new things. Ramjets were used in many missiles before, including Bloodhound and Sea Dart made by my company. Nothing new about ramjets.

The SR-71 used ramjets too. Turbojet at low speed, then conversion to ramjet at high speed.