Few aircraft in the history of aviation have been as mythologized as Lockheed Martin's fabled SR-72. Dubbed the Darkstar by ...

Because the SR-72 Darkstar is so secretive, we do not know much about it, but given the importance of hypersonics, we could ...

While the name of Lockheed Martin’s experimental SR-72 is the Darkstar in “Top Gun: Maverick,” that is not the jet’s actual name. The name hasn’t been officially revealed. The closest ...

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching speeds over three times the speed of sound, and the SR-72 is ...

Sixty years later, the speed bar has changed, however; Lockheed is expected to craft an SR-72 capable of hypersonic speeds, that is, speeds in excess of Mach 5. The SR-72 could have a top speed in ...