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In December 2014, NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to study the feasibility of building the SR-72's propulsion system using existing turbine engine technologies, The $892,292 (~$1.13 million in 2023) contract funded a design study to determine the viability of a TBCC propulsion system by combining one of several current turbine engines, with a very low Mach ignition Dual Mode Ramjet (DMRJ).
The Aurora legend started in 1985, when the Los Angeles Times [5] and later Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine broke the news that the term "Aurora" had been inadvertently included in the 1985 U.S. budget, as an allocation of $455 million for "black aircraft production" in FY 1987. [6]
The legendary Skunk Works had a hand in developing Tom Cruise’s fastest plane yet. Darkstar, the Hypersonic Jet in ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ Could Become a Real Plane Skip to main content
It sure looks like Darkstar, Lockheed Martin's secret high-speed jet, is real. The long-rumored SR-71 successor last seen in Top Gun: Maverick may be legit.
SPOILER ALERT – This story contains Top Gun: Maverick plot points: In the opening moments of Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise’s Capt. Pete Mitchell takes an an experimental hypersonic plane ...
Lockheed Martin SR-72, a proposed hypersonic airplane under development by Lockheed Martin State Route 72, several highways numbered 72 in the US Topics referred to by the same term
A USAF SR-71 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. A reconnaissance aircraft (colloquially, a spy plane) is a military aircraft designed or adapted to perform aerial reconnaissance with roles including collection of imagery intelligence (including using photography), signals intelligence, as well as measurement and signature intelligence.
The RQ-3 DarkStar was designed as a "high-altitude endurance UAV", and incorporated stealth aircraft technology [2] [3] to make it difficult to detect, which allowed it to operate within heavily defended airspace, unlike the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk, which is unable to operate except under conditions of air supremacy. The DarkStar was ...