SR-72 Could Soon Replace SR-71 As Fastest Plane Ever? Yes, the SR-71 Blackbird officially remains the fastest acknowledged crewed, air-breathing jet aircraft ever put into service, a record held since ...

Summary and All You Need to Know: The SR-72 Son of Blackbird promises to be a groundbreaking spy plane with Mach 6 speeds and the potential to carry hypersonic missiles. Developed by Lockheed Martin’s ...

The SR-72 “Darkstar” is envisioned as a Mach-6, air-breathing ISR platform—but could it strike? -Hypersonic speed complicates ...

Lockheed Martin’s SR-72, also known as the “Son of Blackbird,” is one of aerospace’s most hotly anticipated programs – maybe. In May of last year, a fictional craft, allegedly similar to the SR-72, ...

When "Top Gun: Maverick" begins, U.S. Navy aviator Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is working as a test pilot on the highly secret "Darkstar" project. The aircraft is a scramjet-powered ...

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has confirmed that it is developing the SR-72 spy plane. The successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, which was capable of Mach 3.5, the SR-72 will be a hypersonic unmanned ...

If you are into flight, 2024 (and the next few years for that matter) could be a rather interesting time for aviation advancements. We are entering an era of pushing the boundaries, reviving ...

BOMBSHELL footage shows a mysterious “UFO-like” aircraft being tested during secret experiments at a US military-linked base.

It’s not every day you wake up to the news that Lockheed Martin confirmed it has been secretly working on a successor to its famous hypersonic spyplane, the SR-71 Blackbird. That’s what happened on ...

The scramjet in the movie "Top Gun: Maverick" was roughly based on the Lockheed SR-72, which is supposedly in development. [Image courtesy of Patrick Chovanec] The article details a simulated ...

The classified aircraft, built by the Skunk Works, would be more capable than the RQ-180. With the U-2S Dragon Lady soon to be retired, there is a big question mark regarding the future Intelligence, ...