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Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is developing the SR-72 Darkstar “Son of Blackbird,” a Mach 6+ intelligence, surveillance, ...
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Mach 6 SR-72 Darkstar: America’s Next Fighter Jet?
The SR-72 “Darkstar,” Lockheed Martin’s anticipated successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, is designed for uncrewed Mach 5+ ...
The SR-72 jet is being developed by Lockheed's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), also known as Skunk Works, just like its predecessor. The targeted speed isn't Mach 10; it's Mach 6 (4,603.6 mph ...
Both airplanes have been developed by Lockheed Martin’s uber-secret Skunk Works. The SR-72 has a long path to fruition even though expectations are that the technology demonstrator could make ...
The piece, titled “Speed is the New Stealth,” claimed that a new hypersonic aircraft was under development at the company’s famous Skunk Works facility ... that will go twice the speed of the SR-71.” ...
The Lockheed Martin SR-72 is the successor to the legendary supersonic reconnaissance aircraft SR-71 Blackbird, which was created in the 1960s by Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin’s well-known Advanced ...
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division, renowned for its advanced development programs, spearheads the initiative. The SR-72 is engineered to be unmanned, hypersonic, and reusable, capable of striking ...
Though we don't know what the Skunk Works team is conjuring for the SR-72's engines, the jet is rumored to be powered by Turbine-Based Combined-Cycle Hypersonic Engines, an air-breathing design ...
the world has quietly anticipated what marvel Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works would conjure next. Whispered rumors turned into speculative certainty with the SR-72, often dubbed the “Son of Blackbird,” ...
According to Interesting Engineering, the aircraft design is sometimes referenced as the Son of Blackbird, which throws down a challenging gauntlet for the designers at the famed Lockheed Martin Skunk ...