{"id":119776,"date":"2026-08-18T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=119776"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:10:34","slug":"rotating-detonation-engine-rde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rotating-detonation-engine-rde\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Rotating Detonation Engine Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, India-based defence start-up D-Propulse announced that it had successfully demonstrated a rotating detonation engine at a Defence Research &amp; Development Organisation facility in Hyderabad. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Rotating Detonation Engine\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a type of <\/span><b>propulsion system <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that <\/span><b>differs from conventional gas turbines and ramjets in the way it uses fuel.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Usually, engines use deflagration, which is a subsonic, steady way of burning fuel through a flame.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the contrary, an RDE<\/span><b> uses detonation,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wherein the <\/span><b>fuel burns faster as rapid supersonic explosions rotate through the chamber of the engine.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This rapid detonation <\/span><b>produces more thrust for the same amount of fuel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span><b> volume saving<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s can be <\/span><b>used to increase fuel and\/or payload volume,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> providing <\/span><b>potential range, speed, and affordability benefits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> compared to rockets, ramjets, and gas-turbines.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These <\/span><b>mechanically simple RDEs <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have <\/span><b>no moving parts, making them less complex than gas turbine engines<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and therefore potentially<\/span><b> lower cost<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and simpler to manufacture.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/rotating-detonation-engines-the-science-and-the-promises\/article71355953.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rotating Detonation Engine is a type of propulsion system that uses detonation, wherein the fuel burns faster as rapid supersonic explosions rotate through the chamber of the engine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":119783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9616],"class_list":["post-119776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-rotating-detonation-engine","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119797,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119776\/revisions\/119797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}