The $64,000.00 question: Will the goshdarn SR-72 Son of Blackbird “SOB” ever actually fly? Ever since its epic appearance in the opening scene of the 2022 box office blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick,” ...

When "Top Gun: Maverick" begins, U.S. Navy aviator Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is working as a test pilot on the highly secret "Darkstar" project. The aircraft is a scramjet-powered ...

The proposed Lockheed Martin SR-72, often nicknamed "Darkstar", or the “Son of Blackbird”, has captured renewed attention within the United States Air Force because it promises a capability 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 ...

After recent rumors surfaced that the United States Air Force is testing a new high-performance spy plane developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, Sandboxx News decided to explore the possibility ...

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 ...

Based on Lockheed’s quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, that places the total Lockheed losses associated with this single shadow program up to some $335 million since ...