Defence minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates advanced Hypersonic Wind Tunnel test facility in Hyderabad

The Union Minister of Defence Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurated the advanced Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (HWT) test facility of the DRDO in Hyderabad.
The state-of-the-art HWT Test facility has made India as the only third country in the world, after the US and Russia, to have such a huge facility in size and capability.
The indigenously developed HWT Test facility is pressure vacuum driven enclosed free jet facility having nozzle exit diameter of 1 metre. This will simulate Mach No 5 to 12 (Mach represents the multiplication factor to the speed of sound)”
The facility has the capability to simulate hypersonic flow over a wide spectrum and will play a major role in the realization of highly complex futuristic aerospace and defence systems.