Recent interest in high-temperature materials has increased the interest in the research of ultra-hightemperature ceramics (UHTC), which are known to have extremely high melting points above 3000°C. [1][2][3] Within typical carbide UHTCs, the TaC-HfC binary system still has the highest known measured melting point (>3990°C). 4,5 Thus, it is not surprising that studies were undertaken to produce bulk specimens in the TaC-HfC system. This was because of the high melting point of the solid-solution carbide densification and the formation of the binary solid-solution requiring temperatures exceeding 2000°C. 5 The study of Barraza et al. 5 observed that at room temperature, the 1:4, 1:1, and 4:1 HfC-TaC ceramics had high elastic moduli (450-550 GPa) and a moderate hardness of up to 20 GPa. Furthermore, of the three solid-solutions, the 1TaC:4HfC (Ta 0.2 Hf 0.8 C) solid-solution had the highest toughness of 3.4 ± 0.6 MPa m 1/2 , exceeding the toughness reported for the monolithic TaC. 5,6 Nevertheless, because of the exposure to temperatures above 2000°C using spark-plasma sintering (SPS), the grain growth control and achieving a density exceeding 98% of the theoretical density remain a challenge. This limits the data on potentially good high-temperature strength. Considering good high-temperature compressive creep, 7 one may expect that the properties, such as high-temperature toughness or flexural strength for the TaC-HfC system, will also be superior to the monolithic HfC or TaC bulks, as it is expected that solid-solution strengthening will play a role in determining the strength at elevated temperatures. [8][9][10] In this study, we focused on the consolidation and high-temperature strength and toughness of the