India has flight tested a sounding rocket that will be the vehicle used to carry the countries scramjet technology prototypes. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s press release is here. This news article says the rocket achieved a speed of more than Mach 6.5 and this media report says it was conducted from ISRO’s spaceport Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, northeast of Chennai
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Robbie, please tell your girl that the possessive of ‘country’ is ‘country’s’.
Your article (perhaps fault of the source data) does not indicate whether Mach 6.5 was achieved by rocket power alone or whether the scram-jet cut in for 1.2 secs.