Divergent additively manufactured and robotically assembled Lockheed Martin's Dragonfly Group 3 drone. Credit: Graham Warwick/Aviation Week SAN DIEGO—Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has revealed a ...

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is taking work it did to compete for the U.S. Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter and applying it to a new stealthy, survivable Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) ...

Summary and Key Points: Years before the famous SR-71 Blackbird, the CIA built the A-12 Oxcart — a top-secret Mach 3 spy plane designed by Kelly Johnson’s Skunk Works to replace the vulnerable U-2.

Using a touchscreen pilot interface, a human “battle manager” in the cockpit of a flying aircraft gave real-time commands to AI-controlled aircraft. Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin’s secretive advanced ...

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division has revealed concept art of what a stealthy tanker would look like. The concept is in response to KC-Z, the Air Force’s proposed stealth tanker. The Air Force ...

The black magic inside the SR-71.

Lockheed Martin this year has been conducting flight-tests of artificial intelligence-controlled aircraft in air-to-air engagements, including a more recent demonstration where a human “battle manager ...

It was back in 2016 when American space agency NASA kicked off a program called the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) and now, nine years later, we have the first tangible results of this effort: ...

Lockheed Martin's paradoxically famous/secret Skunk Works has released the first image of its futuristic stealth tanker aircraft designed to refuel US and allied warplanes at long distances close to ...

At the end of October 2025, when the government shutdown was beginning to get serious, American space agency NASA conducted the first flight of the X-59 experimental supersonic aircraft. It was a ...