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NASA’s Experimental X-56B Unmanned Aircraft Suffered An “Anomaly” After Takeoff
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 9, 2021
Here’s Everything We Know About Skunk Works’ Secretive ‘Speed Racer’ Program
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 1, 2021
Notoriously Shy RQ-170 Spy Drone Lands At Its Skunk Works Birthplace
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Was The Secret RQ-180 Stealth Drone Really Photographed Over The Mojave Desert?
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 2, 2020
RQ-170 Sentinel Stealth Spy Drone Photographed Landing At Plant 42 In Palmdale
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 26, 2020
What’s The Deal With Lockheed’s Gabbing About The Secretive Hypersonic SR-72?
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
Exclusive: Uniquely Configured RQ-170 Stealth Spy Drone Appears At Vandenberg AFB
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
The Mysterious Case Of The F-117 Nighthawk’s Flip-Down Radar Locators
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
Satellite Image Of RQ-170 Taxiing By MQ-9 Gives Best Size Estimate Yet Of Stealth Drone
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 6, 2020
Elon Musk And His Partner Grimes Name Their Newborn After The A-12 Spy Plane
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 6, 2020
The SR-71 Blackbird Was Almost Brought Back For The Global War On Terror
By Stephen Walker / Updated Mar 28, 2020
The Second Top Gun 2 Trailer Has Landed, Secret High-Speed Test Jet And All
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 16, 2019
Test Pilot Recounts F-117’s Wobbly First Flight And Entering Into Its Top Secret World
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
Check Out These Exclusive Shots Of An F-117 Stealth Jet Arriving At The Reagan Library
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 13, 2019
This Overview Of NASA’s SR-71 Blackbird Is A Must Watch
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 12, 2019
This U.S. Army Manual Has New Official Details About the RQ-170 Sentinel Drone
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
Air Force Considering Making Its Next Tanker A Drone With A Podded Refueling Boom
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 3, 2019
F-117 Sported Mysterious “Dark Knights” Tail Flash During Recent Mojave Desert Flights
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 19, 2019
Exclusive: Lockheed Skunk Works’ X-44A Flying-Wing Drone Revealed
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 6, 2019
NASA’s X-59A Quiet Supersonic Test Jet Will Have Zero Forward Visibility For Its Pilot
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 23, 2018
New Video Of F-117s Flying Out Of Tonopah Emerges Despite Their Fates Being Sealed
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 29, 2018
For Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, It’s All About Getting To The Prototype Stage
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 26, 2018
China Touts Fusion Progress As New Details On Lockheed Martin’s Reactor Emerge
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 20, 2018
NASA Awards Contract To Lockheed’s Skunk Works To Build Manned Quiet Supersonic X-Plane
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 3, 2018
Lockheed Martin Now Has a Patent For Its Potentially World Changing Fusion Reactor
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 27, 2018
Lockheed’s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Looks Impressive, But It’s Still Just A Paper Plane
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 26, 2018
Exclusive Photos: Lockheed Skunk Works’ X-44A Flying Wing Drone Breaks Cover
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 23, 2018
Boeing’s Hypersonic Valkyrie Will Likely Struggle To Catch Up With Lockheed’s SR-72
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 2, 2018
Let’s Talk About The Supposed Sighting Of A Skunk Works Hypersonic Test Aircraft
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Oct 2, 2017
No, That YF-23 Like Rendering Of The Skunk Works’ Next Gen Fighter Isn’t New
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 18, 2017