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Manufacturer. Lockheed Martin / Boeing. First flight. March 29, 1996. The RQ-3 DarkStar (known as Tier III- or "Tier three minus" during development) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Its first flight was on March 29, 1996. The Department of Defense terminated DarkStar in January 1999, after determining the UAV was not aerodynamically stable ...
The Lockheed Martin SR-72, colloquially referred to as "Son of Blackbird",[1]is an American hypersonicUAVconcept intended for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance(ISR) proposed privately in 2013 by Lockheed Martinas a successor to the retired Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. In 2018, company executives said an SR-72 test vehicle could fly by ...
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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.
Kyle Mizokami. June 13, 2022 at 2:19 PM. One of the stars of the new film Top Gun: Maverick is the SR-72 Darkstar hypersonic aircraft. The SR-72 doesn’t really exist, but engineers at Lockheed ...
Funding of the project allegedly reached $2.3 billion in fiscal 1987, according to a 1986 procurement document obtained by Aviation Week. In the 1994 book Skunk Works, Ben Rich, the former head of Lockheed's Skunk Works division, wrote that the Aurora was the budgetary code name for the stealth bomber fly-off that resulted in the B-2 Spirit. [7]
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Polecat is a twin engine, swept wing and designed very much like a miniature B-2. Dark Star is single engined and straightwinged. Development of Polecat didn't begin until mid-2004, after the "mature" RQ-3 was supposed to have been flown in Iraq.