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 ...

Shearwater Aerospace has been selected as a subcontractor for DARPA’s Albatross program, which is exploring the use of weather-informed mission planning and real-time sensing of dynamic wind ...

Aurora Flight Sciences is quietly turning a radical research sketch into metal, bolting on 30 ft wings that will help prove whether a jet can steer with air instead of moving parts. The X-65, built ...

We got a glimpse at what a new cross between a helicopter and a jet aircraft might look like after Bell released a new image. It's of a model used in wind tunnel tests of its entry in DARPA's Speed ...

"DARPA call on industry to design a powerful heavy-lift drone" was originally created and published by Naval Technology, a ...

The “Frosty” radar system’s operation is vastly different from existing radars—and could be less disrupted by the Arctic’s ...

DARPA will launch the second flight test of an unmanned hypersonic glider Thursday (Aug. 11) to test technologies needed for a new global strike bomber concept designed to fly 20 times the speed of ...

If all goes well, the Pentagon this week will test an unmanned aircraft that, in theory, can travel at speeds upwards of 13,000 miles per hour and send a missile to strike an identified target within ...

AV’s Wildcat has tail-mounted lift propellers for vertical flight and a nose-mounted prop for wing-borne cruise. Credit: Aerovironment AeroVironment’s Wildcat has transitioned to wing-borne forward ...

Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $1 billion contract to an industry team led by Northrop Grumman Corp. to build three robotic reconnaissance aircraft and a ...