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 ...

Building on the legacy of the SR-71 Blackbird, the SR-72 "Darkstar" is reportedly part of a top-secret US Air Force ... hypersonic high-altitude surveillance aircraft. The next-generation ...

According to Robots.net, the RQ-170 has a top speed of Mach 0.65 (500 mph), but ... Another aircraft currently under production is the fabled SR-72 Darkstar, though, like its predecessor, not ...

Between February 2018, when the SR-72 went dark and September 2023 ... The SR-71 Blackbird spy plane had a reported top speed of mach 3.2 but there was unofficial speeds of Mach 3.5. The veteran SR-71 ...

Although the actual SR-72 is almost certainly not the Darkstar of “Top Gun: Maverick” fame ... The X-15's speed record remains unbroken, and (by some definitions) its altitude record wasn't broken ...

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 ...

Often confused with a fictional aircraft featured in Top Gun: Maverick, which goes by the name Darkstar, the SR-72 hasn’t been given a codename ... Hypersonic weapons, even at altitude, are able to ...

So long as you were not under a rock, you likely heard about Top Gun ... to the famed SR-71 Blackbird, a supersonic surveillance plane that has now been retired, with the SR-72 dubbed “The ...

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.