SR-72: It Can Reach Hypersonic Speeds The SR-72 is designed to fly at hypersonic speeds, reaching up to Mach 6, which is approximately 4,000 miles per hour (6,400 kilometers per hour).

What You Need to Know: The SR-72, known as the “Son of Blackbird,” is poised to succeed the SR-71 Blackbird, one of the fastest surveillance planes of the Cold War era. With hypersonic speeds ...

Although little is known about the SR-72 Darkstar jet, including whether it even really exists yet, there have been some mind-blowing rumors about it so far.

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A subscale demonstrator was reportedly spied at Lockheed's facilities in California as the aerospace giant touts the imminent coming of hypersonic aircraft.

The Top Gun franchise uses several military aircraft for its action scenes, including the 'Darkstar.' However, is the incredibly fast plane even real?

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, 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 conceptual drawings of the SR-72 don't offer any evidence of an antenna for satellite communications.” Marcase: "My first thought reading this is; what about the X-37B?

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. The ...

What You Need to Know: The SR-72, developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, is a proposed hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft aimed to fill critical intelligence gaps in the U.S. Air Force ...