The speed of sound is the distance a sound wave travels through an elastic medium. The speed of sound through air at 20 °C is equal to 343 meters per second, or roughly 767 miles per hour.

about 36 km per second

Supersonic And Hypersonic Speeds. That covers Mach 1, but what about the other Mach numbers? Put simply, Mach 2 means that an aircraft is traveling twice the speed of sound. Mache 3 means an aircraft is traveling three times the speed of sound, and so on.

Think about moving more than three times faster than the speed of sound, aka Mach 3. Consider this: It’s more than 33 miles per minute. Somebody call Superman: Joersz and Morgan literally flew “faster than a speeding bullet.”

To put this into context, the average bullet travels about 1,700 miles per hour. Mach 1 is about 767 miles per hour. A railgun projectile will travel at Mach 6 – that’s nearly three times faster than the typical bullet.

The US military is developing a next-generation hypersonic jet plane that could fly at up to five times the speed of sound – faster than a bullet. Engineers in the Air Force and the Defence Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) will take into account materials that can work well at hypersonic speeds.

Most fighters could outrun a pistol bullet or shotgun blast but few could outrun a rifle bullet. A 5.56 fired from a rifle like an AR-15 will leave the muzzle velocity of about 3000 fps, or roughly Mach 3 at high altitude (supersonic planes can only attain their published top speeds at relatively high altitude).

In theory, and for rifles in the 5.56, 7.62 and . 338 calibers, the bullets will travel at low enough velocities to avoid breaking the sound barrier, thus creating no “crack” noise. According to the solicitation, subsonic bullets “experience significant accuracy problems due to excessive deviations in velocity.”

No. Most fighter jets can barely touch speeds of upto Mach 2, and that too for very short bursts of time otherwise all their fuel will runs out very soon. Missiles on the other hand, can consistently fly at speeds between Mach 4 to Mach 5 until they close in on their target.

F-22 Raptor

First off: Missiles typically do not “chase down” fighter jets as misrepresented in movies. A missile, when launched at other than point-blank range, will immediately fire its rocket motor and gain as much altitude as possible. Once the motor burns out, the missile then glides to its target.

Fighter jets cannot survive getting hit by a missile. However, a fighter pilot stands a good chance of avoiding the missile altogether with the help of evasive maneuvers, anti-missile flares, and other internal aircraft defense system.

The missile is the AIM-120, and it travels at approximately Mach 4, which is 4,900 Kph, or 3,045 mph. Actually a fighter jet`s missile speed varies depenping upon their design.

If you mean how do they avoid surface to air missiles being launched at them they use a variety of tactics like avoiding the radar site, using stealth planes, launching stand-off weapons to kill radar sites or jamming the radars to prevent them launching surface to air missiles.

Most supersonic missiles travel at a speed between Mach-2 and Mach-3, which is up to 2,300 mph. The most well-known supersonic missile is the Indian/Russian BrahMos, is currently the fastest operational supersonic missile capable of speeds around 2,100–2,300 mph.

In brief, commercial aircraft don’t have any reasonable means to detect an incoming missile, which is likely to be travelling at supersonic speeds. Equipping commercial aircraft with anti-missile measures is technically difficult, very expensive, and ultimately of dubious value.

Can fighter jets out manoeuvre missiles? – Quora. Yes, they can but without era this had to be more detailed. You can find many stuff about Soviet/Russian SAMs. You can see also their missile maneuvering capability inside their eng.

Basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) are tactical movements performed by fighter aircraft during air combat maneuvering (also called ACM, or dogfighting), to gain a positional advantage over the opponent.

Missiles which use infrared seeking are often referred to as “heat-seekers” since infrared is radiated strongly by hot bodies. Heat-seekers are extremely effective: 90% of all United States air combat losses over the past 25 years have been caused by infrared-homing missiles.

Evading a 5th generation missile is very difficult. The first missiles used to have rudimentary (by modern standards) analog homing systems. It was basically a heat sensor and a feedback loop connected to the missile rudders.

A helicopter will use DIRCMs, chaff, and deployed or towed decoys to evade IR or radar guided surface-to-air or air-to-air missiles. They do aircrafts do, evade the last moment before impact.

Using modern day electromagnetic power, a missile can be launched at Mach 10 (ten time the speed of sound), this is equivalent to 3430 m/s (or 7,500 mph).

The United States, Russia, India, United Kingdom, Iran, South Korea, Israel, France, China and Pakistan have developed several long-range subsonic cruise missiles. These missiles have a range of over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) and fly at about 800 kilometres per hour (500 mph).

Taurus KEPD 350 – 500km. The TAURUS KEPD 350 missile can engage targets at a maximum range of 500km.

North Korea has been called “the world’s most prolific exporter of ballistic missiles and related equipment, materials and technology.”(84) Over the past 20 years, North Korea is credited with having sold several hundred Scuds and NoDong missiles, components, related technologies, and production facilities, primarily …