How to Use air-breathing in a Sentence

air-breathing

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• The Hypersleigh appeared to use an air-breathing scramjet engine.
  — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
• China has unveiled a new type of air-breathing engine that could replace today’s turbine-ramjet systems, and reshape how future fighter jets and missiles achieve hypersonic speeds.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
• The design may be decades old, but the diesel-electric submarine’s hybrid approach continues to prove that even air-breathing engines can support long-duration operations beneath the sea.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Feb. 2026
• L3Harris is pursuing an air-breathing ramjet design intended to improve fuel efficiency and extend engagement distances.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
• The key difference is that an HGV is accelerated by a rocket before gliding toward its target, while an HCM uses an air-breathing engine to sustain hypersonic flight.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026