DARPA's X-76 aircraft, designed in cooperation with USSOCOM to break the trade-off between speed and agility, is set to move into the next production phase with Bell Textron.

Bell’s DARPA SPRINT demonstrator has received the X-76 designation after passing Critical Design Review, with flight testing planned for early 2028.

As science fiction technology quickly continues becoming real, the U.S. military now has plans for an experimental plane taken straight out of video games.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has advanced development of the X-76 experimental aircraft under its SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies, or SPRINT, program. DARPA said Monday ...

In military aviation, the runway has always been a tether. It provides the distance ...

The X-76 is the latest in a long series of experimental X-planes developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

DARPA’s X-76 experimental aircraft aims to combine helicopter flexibility with jet-like speeds and runway-independent flight.

Northrop Grumman’s Manta Ray is a new extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicle designed to operate in the deep ocean for months without human support. Developed under DARPA’s Manta Ray program, the ...

The new X‑Plane, officially revealed as the X‑76, is able to take off without a runway but still fly at fast speeds like ...

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 ...

The new X‑Plane, officially revealed as the X‑76, is able to take off without a runway but still fly at fast speeds like a fighter jet. The post United States’ unveils futuristic fleet of next‑gen ...

For decades, the Moon was treated as a silent geological museum, a relic of the Cold War space race. That era is over. What was once symbolic is rapidly becoming strategic infrastructure. Between ...