Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is developing the SR-72 Darkstar “Son of Blackbird,” a Mach 6+ intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), and strike aircraft. -However, if the Air Force were to ...

Sometimes art imitates life, or vice versa. The beginning of Top Gun: Maverick is arguably the film’s best scene. We see Tom ...

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching speeds over three times the speed of sound, and the SR-72 is ...

The SR-71 may be a retired Cold War-era enterprise ... leave it to the geniuses at Skunk Works to figure it out. Lockheed’s program manager Brad Leland noted that “Hypersonic aircraft ...

While the name of Lockheed Martin’s experimental SR-72 is the Darkstar in “Top Gun: Maverick,” that is not the jet’s actual name. The name hasn’t been officially revealed. The closest ...