The SR-72 “Darkstar” is designed as a successor to the iconic SR-71 Blackbird. According to the designers at Lockheed Martin, ...

The SR-72 “Darkstar,” Lockheed Martin’s secretive successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, aims for Mach 6+ hypersonic speeds for ...

What You Need to Know: The SR-72, developed by ... could fly at Mach 3.2 and an altitude of 85,000 feet, a record still unmatched.... Summary and Key Points: In “Top Gun: Maverick,” Tom ...

Most aviation aficionados are quite familiar with the SR-71 Blackbird, Lockheed’s Cold War-era spy plane that set speed and altitude ... “Top Gun: Maverick,“ features a peek at what might be ...

The Top Gun team made a logical choice. After all, the fictional SR-72 “Darkstar” hypersonic ... its name with the RQ-3 Darkstar, a high-altitude, long-endurance surveillance drone that ...

Now that the film has been released (check out our "Top Gun ... to their iconic high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft from the Cold War. Related: The SR-72 Darkstar: Is America's Spy Plane ...

That's because Lockheed noted 2030 as a potential debut for their latest high-altitude spy ... long wait to see the SR-72 in action. If the fictional version seen in "Top Gun: Maverick" is ...

SPOILER ALERT – This story contains Top Gun ... could be the legendary SR-71 Blackbird, once dubbed “the fastest plane ever.” Topping out at Mach 3, the high-altitude reconnaissance plane ...

Darkstar: Is "Top Gun's" Maverick Flying an SR-72 Spy Plane? If the Darkstar is indeed a stand-in for the SR-72, it may not be intended as a fighter, but rather as a high speed, high altitude ...

When "Top Gun ... the famed SR-71 Blackbird. It stands to reason that the next jet in the series would be assigned the designation SR-72, and as it happens, there is such an aircraft in development.

The SR-72 aircraft, also known as the "Son of Blackbird," is a component of the US Air Force's top-secret goal to advance ... hypersonic, high-altitude surveillance aircraft.

Shot down and burned half to death over Cambodia, he worked his way back to the top of the game ... and many of its speed and altitude records are still intact. Until the SR-72 finally flies ...