Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is developing the SR-72 Darkstar “Son of Blackbird,” a Mach 6+ intelligence, surveillance, ...

The SR-72 “Darkstar,” Lockheed Martin’s anticipated successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, is designed for uncrewed Mach 5+ hypersonic flight, focusing on intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), ...

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has confirmed that it is developing the SR-72 spy plane. The successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, which was capable of Mach 3.5, the SR-72 will be a hypersonic unmanned ...

In 2013, an influential piece by Aviation Week’s Guy Norris provided fresh insights into Lockheed Martin’s ongoing Skunk Works development of a Blackbird successor: the SR-72, or “Son of ...

The SR-72, also known as the “Son of the Blackbird,” is a hypersonic aircraft being developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks team, capable of reaching speeds of Mach 6 and potentially ...

Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works has revealed plans for a new hypersonic ... Designed as a replacement for the super-speedy SR-71 Blackbird, Lockheed’s SR-72 unmanned spy plane was revealed ...

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and Aerojet Rocketdyne have made a breakthrough in hypersonic propulsion technology, but the Mach 6.0-capable SR-72 remains more of aspiration than a real airplane.

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 ...

Skunk Works' actual SR-72 would be configured as an unpiloted aircraft, but there could be a demonstration plane with room for a single pilot. Also, the real jet being developed is engineered to ...

Back in 2013, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, the legendary division that ... of a project for a Hypersonic strike aircraft dubbed SR-72. This graphic is the U.S. Air Force’s first graphic ...

The company’s secretive Skunk Works unit has been working since at... This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) bundles. Schedule a demo today ...