In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching speeds over three times the speed of sound, and the SR-72 is ...

This plane was codenamed “Darkstar.” It was supposed to be the newest spy plane that the US military has been developing, the SR-72 Darkstar. As a fun aside, the Chinese saw the mockup used in ...

Few aircraft in the history of aviation have been as mythologized as Lockheed Martin's fabled SR-72. Dubbed the Darkstar by ...

While the name of Lockheed Martin’s experimental SR-72 is the Darkstar in “Top Gun ... use the same exotic JP-7 fuel that powered the plane’s predecessor.