What You Need to Know: The SR-72, developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, is a proposed hypersonic reconnaissance ... a fictional spy plane named “Darkstar,” inspired by the real SR ...

The SR-71 could fly at Mach 3.2 (around 2,100 miles per hour)—lightyears faster than anything the Soviet Union could throw at ...

hypersonic speed will allow the SR-72 to simply outrun surface-to-air missiles – which would permit the aircraft to operate behind enemy lines with limited consequences. Allowing the SR-72 to ...

Multiple Hypersonic aircraft initiatives will mark the future of hyper-fast aircraft. The SR-72 "Son of Blackbird," developed by Lockheed Martin, is set to become the hypersonic inheritor of the ...

Stratolaunch will launch its Talon-A hypersonic testbed globally using Spirit of Mojave, a modified 747, under a $24.7M MDA contract.

The Talon has been in the news for some time now, not in small part because it is described as America's first privately funded, reusable hypersonic aircraft. It is basically a testbed that can be ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) completed a second test of a hypersonic glide vehicle at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Jan. 13, expanding a campaign to qualify new technologies ...

But only one, the legendary Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy ... several companies are working on aircraft that can carry humans (even civilians) through the air at hypersonic speeds of over Mach ...

Hypersonic missiles are the future of military technology, capable of flying at Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound. Such missiles have attracted the attention of major military powers, as ...

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