Now, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has revealed that it is building a successor to the Blackbird: the SR-72. When the last SR-71 Blackbird was grounded in 1998 it was a double blow.

Summary and Key Points: The SR-71 "I" was a proposed interceptor variant of the famed SR-71 Blackbird, designed to counter Soviet air defenses during the Cold War. -Lockheed Martin conceptualized ...

Dubbed the SR-72, or Son of Blackbird, the new unmanned spy plane is under development at Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works division, where some of the company’s most advanced projects have ...

Summary and All the Things You Need to Know: The U.S. Air Force's SR-72 “Son of Blackbird” is expected to be the hypersonic successor to the iconic SR-71 Blackbird, which still holds the ...

Lockheed Martin's famed Skunk Works has finally unveiled the long-awaited successor to the SR-71 Blackbird. Aviation Week and Space Technology's Guy Norris pulled the covers off the project that ...

It looks like Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, ... Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works reveals a Mach 6 strike successor of SR-71 Blackbird dubbed SR-72. Published on: November 1, 2013 at 2:35 PM.

Following the loss of a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, Lockheed needed “to build the impossible—and do it fast.” Called the SR-71—SR for Strategic ...

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has already begun development on the high altitude SR-72, which will fly at Mach 6—twice the speed of the SR-71—and will be capable of carrying weapons.

Think fast: Lockheed Martin says its SR-72 -- at this point still just a concept -- will hit Mach 6. Lockheed Martin The SR-71 Blackbird flew faster than any other production plane ever.

Built by Lockheed Martin in the 1960s, the SR-71 could reach speeds exceeding Mach 3 (above 2,200 mph). That's over 3 times faster than the speed of sound. The recon jets went out of service in 1998.

However, this has not prevented the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin from examining how the SR-71, or a derivative, could be made to go even faster.

Summary and Key Points: The SR-71 “I” was a proposed interceptor variant of the famed SR-71 Blackbird, designed to counter Soviet air defenses during the Cold War. -Lockheed Martin ...