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What is a ram jet engine?

Updated: 10/20/2022
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It is a type of an aircraft or rocket engine that uses the exhaust pipe to generate thrust

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Well...kinda but not quite.

A ramjet engine is the only engine that needs no moving parts. It is a pipe with a cone-shaped device in the inlet to compress the air, nozzles to add fuel to the stream, something to ignite the fuel and a narrow section about two-thirds of the way down to compress the burning gas and accelerate it to supersonic speed.

Ramjets only work if they're moving, and they're not really efficient until the plane gets up to Mach 3.

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