Summary and Key Points: Tom Cruise’s dramatic entrance at the 2024 Olympics, reminiscent of his iconic role as Maverick in Top Gun, has reignited interest in the mysterious SR-72 Darkstar, a ...

The SR-72 Darkstar has fueled speculation for nearly two decades. First rumored in 2007, the jet is believed to be Lockheed Martin's hypersonic successor to the legendary SR-71 Blackbird. Official ...

The SR-72 is one of the most secretive projects currently in development. Often called the “Darkstar” based on its portrayal in the film Top Gun Maverick (the plane doesn’t actually have a codename ...

Summary and What You Need to Know: Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 hypersonic aircraft, a successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, is advancing toward service but faces significant budgetary challenges. Recent ...

Darkstar, the secretive, ultrafast jet supposedly being developed for the U.S. military, may have gotten another shred of confirmation that it actually exists. The Lockheed tweet was in celebration of ...

It’s not every day you wake up to the news that Lockheed Martin confirmed it has been secretly working on a successor to its famous hypersonic spyplane, the SR-71 Blackbird. That’s what happened on ...