“Plasma Jet Engines Could Revolutionize Aviation and End Fossil Fuel Dependency. (CREDIT: Freepik)” (BrighterSide, Next-generation jet engine converts electricity directly into thrust)
In a traditional jet engine, combustion causes the fuel to expand. And then that expansion pushes the aircraft forward. In plasma engines, electromagnetic radiation ionizes air, creating plasma. And then magnets can drive it backwards. This gives. An enormous speed to those ions. The plasma jet and plasma rocket. They are quite the same thing. The difference. Is in the way those engines take gas. That they need. The plasma jet engine takes air from the atmosphere. And then it expands that gas. The plasma rocket uses an internal propellant source.
But it's possible that a plasma jet can transform into a plasma rocket. The transformation. It happens this way: the system just closes the hatch from the air inlet. And then starts to use its internal propellant storage. These kinds of systems. Their compressor blows air from the side of the engine chamber, which could make it possible to start regular ramjets on the ground. If there is an exhaust hatch and the ability to push air from the side. Makes it possible to launch the nuclear-powered aircraft. Similar to Project Pluto from the regular runways. The hatch at the front of the ramjet allows this system. To drive the exhaust gases to the back. The nuclear engine makes it possible. To create the space plane with unlimited operational time.
The system. It can make plasma by using electromagnetic radiation. The ionization. At the front of the wing. And a magnetic system. That drives those ions over the wing. It makes the gas move faster above the wing. This causes lift force. Same way as the run on runways causes in the wings of regular aircraft. Same way there is suspicion that the tower. That is in the middle. Of certain saucer-shaped aerial phenomenon. It is meant for some kind of ion propulsion. The system can ionize air. And then drive it very fast over the upper side. Of that kind of saucer-shaped aerial vehicle. That system. It can generate lift-off force by using the ion flow above the craft.
“Researchers have developed a prototype jet engine powered by microwave air plasmas, offering thrust without fossil fuels. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0)” (BrighterSide, Next-generation jet engine converts electricity directly into thrust).
Could this UAP have a plasma engine? That puts gas to flow very fast above this device. Another possibility is that the system. It can have an internal double-propeller system. Like in Kamov-type helicopters.
In some models, the system creates a ball-shaped plasma structure. Then magnets will drive the plasma forward. That plasma makes the system act like a sail. In this system, the plasma pushes the craft forward. This kind of system can give the craft an ability. To levitate silently. And if the craft pushes plasma forward. That makes it possible to create aircraft that have no exhaust gases. A plasma engine that takes the gas that it needs from air can fly almost forever. This means those plasma aircraft with plasma jet engines can act as atmospheric satellites.
They can fly for years. Plasma jet engines. They can also make it possible. To create small-sized drones that have no operational time limits. Because a plasma jet engine is very small. This makes it possible to create pocket-sized drones. That can fly with supersonic speed. The problem is with the power sources. The plasma jet engine requires nuclear power. Or it needs wireless high-voltage energy transfer. The use of traditional turbogenerators onboard the aircraft.
They are impractical. The aircraft that uses plasma jet engines. They can fly. Also in space. The plasma jet. It uses internal gas storage. It can transfer to use internal propellant that those systems drive into an expansion chamber. These kinds of space planes. They can make even interplanetary journeys. And operate in other planets' atmospheres. The system can fill its propellant tanks. By using the air that it pulls from the atmosphere. The compressor system can deliver that gas into the expansion chamber. Or it can transfer it into fuel storage. These kinds of space planes could travel to other planets. But they would not be as effective as pulsed plasma fusion systems. The manned interplanetary mission requires something more powerful. Like a so-called VASIMIR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) engine.
The interplanetary system. It could generate plasma, or pulsed plasma. By using microwave or laser beams. NASA's innovative electromagnetic microwave propulsion system was the “regular” rocket engine. In that system. Microwaves cause expansion in the propellant. And that makes the system an electromagnetic rocket engine. But when we think about the hybrid systems. That connects the air-breathing plasma engines and plasma rockets. Unmanned interplanetary missions could use that kind of system. To take samples from gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn's atmosphere. If this kind of engine is mounted to SpaceX's Starship. That kind of nuclear-powered shuttle. It could take samples back from Mars to Earth.
https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/the-power-of-plasma-propulsion-a-new-era-in-space-travel/60991/
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/nasas-new-plasma-engine-could-reduce-travel-time-to-mars/articleshow/130908505.cms
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/next-generation-jet-engine-converts-electricity-directly-into-thrust/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_Specific_Impulse_Magnetoplasma_Rocket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_propulsion_engine
