Summary – The SR-71 Blackbird remains the fastest acknowledged crewed, air-breathing jet, a Cold War icon that relied on Mach 3-plus speed and extreme altitude to outrun threats. Since its 1990s ...

Summary and Key Points: As of February 2026, the SR-72 “Darkstar” remains a high-value Skunk Works concept rather than a ...

Summary and Key Points: Top Gun: Maverick, the highest-grossing film of 2022, delighted aviation enthusiasts with its depiction of advanced aircraft. The film’s opening sequence features Tom Cruise’s ...

The SR-72 Darkstar – Lockheed Martin’s not-so-secret “Skunk Works” may actually be working on the long-rumored successor to the Mach 3+ SR-71. The aircraft would reportedly be more capable than the ...

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 ...

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 ...