An experimental unmanned hybrid-fuel aircraft has taken to the skies for testing over Edwards Air Force Base in the High Desert, officials confirmed Wednesday, May 6. The XRQ-73, developed by DARPA in ...

A new US military drone with hybrid-electric propulsion made its first flight in April 2026. This marks an important step toward developing quieter combat and surveillance aircraft. Northrop Grumman ...

The advances of Aurora’s demonstrator ensure that the company’s fan-in-wing VTOL experiments will extend well beyond DARPA’s SPRINT. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, is poised to redefine ...

The EVADE program aims to quickly evaluate lightweight autonomous VTOL aircraft with enhanced range, endurance, and payload capacity. Standardized software architecture, including Sikorsky's MATRIX ...

Back in 2023 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced yet another program that's supposed to end with the creation of revolutionary aircraft tech. Called Speed and Runway ...

The Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project is a joint DARPA/US Special Operations Command to build a high speed plane capable of take off and flight without the need of a runway.

AV’s Wildcat has tail-mounted lift propellers for vertical flight and a nose-mounted prop for wing-borne cruise. Credit: Aerovironment AeroVironment’s Wildcat has transitioned to wing-borne forward ...

Congress created the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to make sure America was never beaten by technological surprise.