Cummings Aerospace and ATRX signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of high-speed unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The companies will work together to integrate a high-speed turbo-rocket onto a proven airframe with the goal of developing affordable UAS that can fly at supersonic and hypersonic speeds.
Cummings Aerospace’s Hellhound UAS:
- An unmanned aircraft with multiple specialized variants
- Cummings Aerospace will develop a new version designed to accommodate a hypersonic-capable engine
- 3D-printed modular design and commercial off-the-shelf hardware
- Rapid payload swaps in fewer than five minutes with no tools required
ATRX’s Air Turbo Rocket (ATR):
- A high-speed, air-breathing propulsion system
- Capable of flying at hypersonic speeds, five times the speed of sound
- Completed multiple prototype tests
The companies plan to integrate the ATR engine into a Hellhound variant designed for high-speed flight and begin subsonic and supersonic flight testing.