US Patent 7448199 Self powdered missile turbojet

A turbojet engine includes a core engine, an afterburner, and a converging-diverging exhaust nozzle in serial flow communication. An integral starter-generator is disposed inside the core engine and is joined to the rotor for equal speed rotation therewith. An electrical controller coordinates operation of the engine for subsonic, transonic, and supersonic operation of the engine in a missile self-powered by the starter-generator.