Ayaks

This article is about the aircraft. For the singular of Ayaks, see Ayak.
Leninetz HLDG Co. small-scale model of the Ayaks aircraft exposed at the 1993 MAKS Air Show, Moscow. The sharp isosceles trapezoid nose, flat top, inclined lower surface and rear SERN are typical of a waverider configuration, similar to the NASA X-43.

The Ayaks (Russian: АЯКС, meaning also Ajax) is a hypersonic waverider aircraft program started in the Soviet Union and currently under development by the Hypersonic Systems Research Institute (HSRI) of Leninets Holding Company in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "Hypersonic Systems Research Institute (HSRI) website". hypersonics.ru. Leninetz Holding Company.
  2. ^ Czysz, Paul A. (2006). Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems: Enabling Technologies for Space. Springer. ISBN 978-3540231615. See pp. 185-195.
  3. ^ "What is the Russian Ayaks aircraft?". North Atlantic Blog. 30 March 2015.