What You Need to Know: The SR-72, developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, is a proposed hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft aimed to fill critical intelligence gaps in the U.S. Air Force.

Summary and What You Need to Know: Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 hypersonic aircraft, a successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, is ...

Lockheed calls the SR-72 a "game changer." The jet will be an unmanned hypersonic aircraft. Lockheed claims it will reach speeds topping Mach 6 — over 4,500 mph — and they also want the jet to ...

Multiple Hypersonic aircraft initiatives will mark the future of hyper-fast aircraft. The SR-72 "Son of Blackbird," developed by Lockheed Martin, is set to become the hypersonic inheritor of the ...

The real SR-72 is rumored to be powered by Turbine-Based Combined-Cycle Hypersonic Engines, which would help it reach Mach 5 and potentially even Mach 10. Per an interview with Skunk Works ...

Lockheed calls the SR-72 a "game changer." The jet will be an unmanned hypersonic aircraft. Lockheed claims it will reach speeds topping Mach 6 (over 4,500 mph) and they also want the jet to do ...

hypersonic speed will allow the SR-72 to simply outrun surface-to-air missiles – which would permit the aircraft to operate behind enemy lines with limited consequences. Allowing the SR-72 to ...

So, Blackbird was not hypersonic as its anticipated successor, the SR-72, is set to be ... but it could fly above the ranges of Soviet anti-aircraft missile defense systems.