Summary and What You Need to Know: Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 hypersonic ... SR-71 Blackbird, and its potential path toward ...

Unlike the SR-71 Blackbird, the SR-72 could be armed ... directed-energy and hypersonic weapons, demanding new countermeasures. The SR-72, developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, is a ...

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 ...

When an airframe is named in reference to the SR-71 Blackbird, you can expect that ... Lockheed is expected to craft an SR-72 capable of hypersonic speeds, that is, speeds in excess of Mach ...

While the name of Lockheed Martin’s experimental SR-72 is the Darkstar in “Top Gun ... which refers to it as “Son of Blackbird.” In addition to the movie creating a name, the jet design ...

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the 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 ...

As the Cold War between the United States and USSR was heating up, U.S. policymakers desired new aerial ... helped shape the Blackbird we know today. The task of creating the SR-71 was unique ...