The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been quietly building one of the most unusual experimental aircraft in recent memory, a missile-shaped drone designed to carry and launch its own ...
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America’s flying city ekranoplan that DARPA rejected

Stephen Hooker’s AirCon 1.6 “wingship” proposal imagined a ground-effect giant intended to move ship-scale loads at aircraft-like speeds, with payload figures in the thousands of tons and seating for ...
Bell Textron and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are all set to begin development of their next-generation aircraft demonstrator.
Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, successfully held the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Defense Advanced ...
The Bell X-76 was officially given its X-Plane designation on March 9, 2026, in honor of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...
Planned to fly in 2028, the X-76 will explore technologies for fast-flying runway-independent aircraft with folding rotors, crewed and uncrewed.
DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator ...
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has unveiled a new experimental jet convertiplane, the X-76. It is designed to combine the speed of a jet aircraft with the […] ...
France and its partners are preparing a defense mission to restore shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.This was announced by France’s President Emmanuel Macron during his visit to Cyprus, according […] ...
Istari won a Department of War prototype other transaction agreement worth up to $50 million to build the Mission Engineering Automation Testbed.
Phasecraft, the world's leading quantum algorithms company, today announced it has commenced work on the University of Maryland's Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security's (ARLIS) ...
The futuristic tech, funded by DARPA, would allow the U.S. military to preemptively detect danger from a remarkably long distance.