Russian "AJAX" hypersonic aircraft project

I searched on the web but only found articles in russians. Can you help me ?

i posted about this longtime ago.. anyway

The concept of fundamentally new hypersonic apparatus was advanced at the end of the 80th yr. by Vladimir l'vovichem frayshtadt, who works in the St. Petersburg Haucno- research enterprise of the hypersonic systems (NIPGS) of the holding company of?Leninets?. He proposed not to protect apparatus, that flies with the enormous speed, from the heat, but to on the contrary admit it inward for increasing the energy resource. This solved the global problem of cooling glider and many other problems. Initially?Ayaks? it were created as answer to the American plans of the creation of the hypersonic intelligence officer Aurora, later it?konversiruyetsya? in hypersonic aircraft of global distance or first stage for the injection of payload into orbit. Hypersonic LA uses as the fuel hydrocarbons (kerosene, methane, methanol) and water. For the utilization of heat in the dual skin of?Ayaksa? is placed the thermochemical reactor, into which after acceleration and aerodynamic heating of skin will be given the hydrocarbon fuel. It is used as?endotermicheskoye? fuel- - absorbs heat-. Under the action of temperature, pressure and with the aid of the catalyst the mixture of fuel with the water is decomposed into olefin and free hydrogen. This hydrogen-containing mixture enters the magnetoplasma-chemical engine, which is MHD generator, MHD accelerator hypersonic PVRD - RAMJET ENGINE and located beyond the combustion chamber. THE MHD generator, which brakes flow to the optimum speed, comes out in the role of compressor, and the manufactured by it electric power, it is used both for further acceleration of flow and for the ionization of air - the creation of?kholodnoy plasma?, which makes it possible to increase speed LA to 10-30 % and to obtain an also whole series of advantages. This plasma funnel around the air duct GPVRD - HYPERSONIC RAMJET ENGINE (in consequence of which its effective diameter grows almost to hundred it is meter) and plasma spot- clouds in front of LA (in consequence of which air resistance substantially it is lowered) or near it is wing (that it increases their effective area it regulates lift). For the ionization of air is possible the application of laser emission or neutron source. Revolutionary concept of?Ayaksa? has the high coefficient of novelty, and consequently technical risk. Only to 1993 expert commission from the most important scientists carried out the final verdict: "the concept of?Ayaks? and its basic directions do not contradict data of contemporary science ". In the same year took place the session of the scientific and technical council Of goskomoboronproma. At present NIPGS in chapter general director by Aleksandr leonidovichem kuranov actively propagandizes concept and searches for the sources of funds of its realization.

Sorry Nans.....I'm like "Schultz" from hogan's Heroes on this one...."I know nothing!"
What I can do is try to provide as much links to information dealing with this though....:

"Novikov Victor Alexandrovitch"
Link:
www.ihed.ras.ru...

"HYPERSONIC AIRCRAFT RESEARCH"
Link:
www.virtuallystrange.net...
(scroll down 3/4's of page)
"The April 5, 1999, issue of "Aviation Week and Space Technology"
contains an article by Craig Covault titled "Global Presence'
Objective Drives Hypersonic Research." It mentions the
following items: "Within 15 years managers hope [new]
technology will allow development of a military
single-stage-to-orbit vehicle with a hypersonic lift-to-drag
ratio of 3. This would enable the vehicle to launch into any
orbital inclination, then return to base after one revolution of
the Earth. "One of the concepts to be explored are hypersonic
plasma characteristics first discovered in the US in 1958 and
more recently revived in Russia in the 'Ajax' concept. See Ajax"
www2.cybercities.com... "The
plasma around hypersonic vehicles is ionized air that is
electrically conductive. Theory and some initial tests indicate
that if a magnetic field is beamed from the vehicle, the
electrical properties of the plasma will be affected such that
the bow shock will physically move farther away from the
vehicle, dramatically reducing drag. This and other Ajax
factors related to heat transfer and the real time conversion of
fuels on such a vehicle [?] could have a revolutionary impact on
the ability to create air-breathing hypersonic vehicles... 'It
is potential breakthrough technology." Thanks to Joel
Carpenter. Editors Note: This research is being used in the
Hypersonic aircraft now under development."

"Winged"
Link:
www.friends-partners.ru...




"Ramjet, Scramjet, and PDE"
Link:
translate.google.com...://www.onera.fr/conferences/ramjet-scramjet-pde/&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%25C2%25BB%2BRussian% 2B%2522AJAX%2522%2Bhypersonic%2Baircraft%2Bproject%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN%26edition%3Dus



"11th AIAA / AAAF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies
Link:
hypersonic2002.aaaf.asso.fr...

"MHD Energy Bypass Scramjet Engine: A Progress Report"
Link:
www.spacetransportation.com...


Thats about it for now.....


regards
seekerof

very interesting thread. never actually saw the images.