Top Gun: Maverick's Darkstar concept jet is an impossibly cool piece of future aviation that Tom Cruise uses to achieve hypersonic flight.
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The RQ-3 DarkStar was a highly-advanced, stealthy reconnaissance remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) designed for use in high-threat environments. Though it never entered production, the DarkStar was an important milestone in the development of even more,
Lockheed Martin's successor to the Blackbird, the SR-72 has been in development since the early 2000's. It'll reach speed in excess of Mach 6 and reach any destination on Earth within the hour.
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Lockheed Martin's Darkstar aircraft from Top Gun: Maverick may not be real, but an actual Skunk Works team worked on it. That's right, the same...
The futuristic fighter satiates Pete "Maverick" Mitchell's need for speed in Cruise's first $1 billion blockbuster.
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The DarkStar (also known as Darkstar[1], Lockheed Martin DarkStar or Lockheed Martin Darkstar) is a fictional hypersonic stealth aircraft from Top Gun: Maverick that was designed by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works division.[2] It is an exceptionally fast aircraft that can even outrun missiles, but...
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works unveiled details of the Darkstar hypersonic aircraft.
Darkstar joins many Lockheed Martin airplanes, satellites and helicopters playing a supporting role in major motion pictures.
Darkstar joins many Lockheed Martin airplanes, satellites and helicopters playing a supporting role in major motion pictures.
The Lockheed Martin/Boeing Tier III- (minus) unpiloted aerial vehicle is inspected by NASA personnel September 14, 1995, following its arrival at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California (now the Armstrong Flight Research Center). The Tier III Minus project utilized Dryden ground facilities during the flight test program. The vehicle was developed by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and Boeing Defense and Space Group to satisfy a goal of the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO) to supply responsive and sustained surveillance and reconnaissance data from anywhere within enemy territory, day or night, in all types of weather. Dubbed DarkStar, it had a wing span of 69 feet and was designed to fly above 45,000 feet at subsonic speeds on missions lasting more than eight hours. The first DarkStar prototype made its first flight on March 29, 1996. At the beginning of its second flight, on April 22, 1996, it crashed on takeoff, and was destroyed. The DarkStar's unusual shape was dictated by the requirement to orbit its target conducting surveillance while still remaining stealthy. Whereas aircraft like the F-117 are designed to be more stealthy from the front, the DarkStar is designed to be more stealthy from the sides. NASA Media Usage Guidelines Credit: NASA Image Number: EC95-43271-5 Date: September 14, 1995
June 10, 2022 - The Darkstar hypersonic jet in Tom Cruise’s latest blockbuster movie, “Top Gun: Maverick”, offers a peek at what might be the SR-72 – the super-secret experimental spy plane under development by Lockheed Martin. infographic
In Top Gun: Maverick, Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell takes his need for speed to a new realm: the hypersonic realm, that is. Thirty-six years after the first film debuted, Mitchell is a test pilot flying the SR-72 “Darkstar” airplane. Although fictional, the SR-72 has a real-world pedigree, with design help for the aircraft and models coming from the same group that is designing the real SR-72: the world-famous Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs. According to Lockheed Martin, the production team behind Top Gun: Maverick contacted the company’s Skunk Works division to assist with the SR-72 concept. The Skunk Works, a name drawn from the cartoon Li’l Abner, is the division of Lockheed Martin that works on classified aircraft programs. Established by legendary avi
