Sikorsky has advanced to the next phase of a DARPA project to develop an unmanned VTOL aircraft capable of flying all-weather missions from ships or land. The rotor blown wing VTOL tail-sitter is ...

The advances of Aurora’s demonstrator ensure that the company’s fan-in-wing VTOL experiments will extend well beyond DARPA’s SPRINT. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, is poised to redefine ...

DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. The DARPA ...

The aviation industry is going through some truly major changes. And, at least this time, I'm not referring to the strides made in the field of means of propulsion, but specifically to the changes in ...

An experimental unmanned hybrid-fuel aircraft has taken to the skies for testing over Edwards Air Force Base in the High Desert, officials confirmed Wednesday, May 6. The XRQ-73, developed by DARPA in ...

Two companies will vie to design a new high-speed, runway-independent aircraft, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency announced today. “As of May 2024, two performers—Aurora Flight Sciences and ...

DARPA has revealed a new project that seeks to invent a system that can build useful structures from scrap materials on forward bases that have been cut off by an enemy from being resupplied. The ...

DARPA's Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program successfully conducted the first AI-versus-human dogfight using actual aircraft (X-62A VISTA), marking a significant milestone in military aviation. The AI ...

Lightweight fighter aircraft with no pilots could support conventional military missions while being easier to launch and recover. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...