Russia Develops New 'Hypersonic Fuel'?

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http://tass.ru/en/russia/778026

It appears to be a solid propellant with mention of Aluminum nano-particle additives. Aren't there many solid propellant formulations that can propel a missile above M5?
 
bobbymike said:
http://tass.ru/en/russia/778026

It appears to be a solid propellant with mention of Aluminum nano-particle additives. Aren't there many solid propellant formulations that can propel a missile above M5?
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Hmm i'm thinking liquid propellant instead, for the sustainer stage as it what that need such fuel most for high ISP. So those "nanoparticles" is going to be the one of the fuel enriching component.
 
that's aluminized liquid fuel

Eugen Sänger experimented with Kerosin enrich with metal powder the "Kerosol"
later NASA try that with Alumizine a mixture of anhydrous hydrazine with 43% aluminum powder suspended in a gelling agent.

Those fuels burn higher temperature and higher thrust
and case of Alumizine is quite unstable and after storage drum exploded, NASA abandon all test with that stuff...

Good Luck russia airforce, you will need it
 
Wouldn't such fuel have higher density but lower Isp than pure kerosene?
 
stealthflanker said:
how it could have lower Isp ?
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Carbohydrates have more energy per mass than aluminum.
 
DSE said:
Russia has created a fuel formula
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In my read I note use of the term formula. Coming up with a practical, producible and usable fuel entails a bit more than just a "formula" to my way of thinking.
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The Soviets and later Russian have tradition syntactic fuel like Sintin.
A synthetic kerosene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntin
also they process standard Kerosene fuel by filtering and desulphurize it
 

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