Analysis of development trends of power-units for high-speed flying vehicles

The review of modern achievements in the field of development of high-speed flying vehicles with a power plant is presented, based on the information available in open sources. Modern development projects for such vehicles are considered. The main focus is on the projects dedicated to scramjets development and started to carrying out in the last decade. The ways of solving the problems connected with the development of high-speed aircraft with power plants based on scramjets are analyzed. The materials presented in the paper can be useful at the stages of setting tasks and implementing various projects for the development of civil high-speed vehicles.