DARPA's New Secret Hybrid Electric Drone Has Serious Nuclear Bomber Vibes
12 Jul 2024, 10:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Defense contractor Northrop Grumman revealed the first image of the hybrid electric drone it is working on for DARPA, it's called XRQ-73 SHEPARD
Bell Is Making a VTOL That Can Fold Its Rotor Blades and Turn Into a Jet
29 May 2024, 09:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Defense contractor Bell Textron announced it was selected to move ahead with its design for the DARPA SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies (SPRINT) program
Flying Wildcat Is Meant to Take Off From Navy Ships and Track Down Enemy Targets
29 May 2024, 06:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Defense contractor AeroVironment presented its entry in the DARPA ANCILLARY program, a tail-sitting drone called Wildcat
DARPA Backs This Insect-Like Military Drone, Could Fly in 2026
28 May 2024, 06:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Defense contractor Northrop Grumman joins Sikorsky in the race to deliver a new kind of military drone for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
A Flying Wing With Rotors Is What Sikorsky Is Working on Now
24 May 2024, 09:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Helicopter maker Sikorsky presented the first images of a drone it is working on for DARPA's AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY
DARPA Blended Wing Body Aircraft Will Work Like a Helicopter But Speed Like a Maniac
22 May 2024, 13:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American company Aurora Flight Sciences showed this week the first images of the aircraft it designs for the DARPA SPeed and Runway INdependent Technolo program
DARPA Completes Testing of Underwater Drone That'll Give Sharks Nightmares
6 May 2024, 12:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American research agency DARPA announced the completion of full-scale, in-water testing for the Northrop Grumman Manta Ray underwater drone
Video Shows AI-Piloted F-16 Take On Humans in First Real-World Man vs Machine Dogfight
23 Apr 2024, 09:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Military research agency DARPA released a video showing glimpses of a dogfight between and AI-piloted F-16 and human opponents
America Is Teaching Drones to Ressuply Ships at Sea and Get Out of Sticky Situations
10 Apr 2024, 10:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Boeing company Aurora Flight Sciences announced the completion of two tests on an autonomous system for ships, aircraft, and land-based vehicles
Plane With Diamond-Shaped Wings and No Control Surfaces to Fly in 2025
1 Apr 2024, 12:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American research agency DARPA announced it tasked private company Aurora Flight Sciences with making a plane with no control surfaces
DARPA Is Considering Putting Trains on the Moon, Needs Someone to Build It a Railway First
21 Mar 2024, 09:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Research agency DARPA tasked aerospace company Northrop Grumman with looking into the merits, risks, and costs of a lunar railway network.
Mach 9 Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Survives Its First Long-Duration Test
13 Mar 2024, 08:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / America aerospace startup Venus announced it conducted its first long-duration test of the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) it is working on
Autonomous Helicopters Fly at One Another to See If They Can Dodge in Time
5 Feb 2024, 13:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA, DARPA and Sikosky test autonomous collision avoidance systems on two helicopters that flew on their own at the end of last year
U.S. to Beam Down Power Into Combat Zones Using Speed of Light Wireless Energy Web
13 Dec 2023, 09:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA's Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program moved into a new stage after Raytheon was tasked with building such relays
Lunarsaber Is What Humans on the Moon Will Call Their Fancy, 328-Feet-Tall Street Lights
8 Dec 2023, 13:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Honeybee Robotics says it's entry for the DARPA LunA-10 study is something called the Lunarsaber, technically a street light with extra capabilities
No, Those Are Not Drums Floating in Space, But DARPA-Backed Spacecraft Hubs
7 Dec 2023, 13:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the entries in the DARPA LunA-10 study is the spacecraft hub developed by Firefly Aerospace based on its Elytra spacecraft
DARPA's SPRINT X-Plane Will Be the Mother of All Vertical Lift Aircraft
28 Nov 2023, 09:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Research agency DARPA announced the four companies that will take part in the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies X-plane (SPRINT) program
DARPA Once Planned to Fit Cargo on Top of the Space Shuttle External Tank, CGI Shows How
27 Nov 2023, 14:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Space Shuttle was the source of many spaceship design ideas, one of them, the Hammerhead, callled for a fairing to be fitted on the fuel tank
Manta Ray Underwater Drone Testing Underway, Doesn't Quite Look Like What We Were Promised
2 Oct 2023, 08:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the Manta Ray drone contractors, PacMar Technologies, starts water testing of a prototype of the machine, looks different from renderings
America's Hypersonic Weapon Interceptor Now Cooking Over at Boeing
18 Sep 2023, 05:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Aerospace giant Boeing announced its involvement in the DARPA Glide Breaker project, meant to give the U.S. intercept capabilities against hypersonic weapons