Manta Ray Underwater Drone Testing Underway, Doesn't Quite Look Like What We Were Promised
2 Oct 2023, 08:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the Manta Ray drone contractors, PacMar Technologies, starts water testing of a prototype of the machine, looks different from renderings
America's Hypersonic Weapon Interceptor Now Cooking Over at Boeing
18 Sep 2023, 05:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Aerospace giant Boeing announced its involvement in the DARPA Glide Breaker project, meant to give the U.S. intercept capabilities against hypersonic weapons
DARPA Teaching AI How to Decide Victim Priority in Mass Casualty Triage
16 Aug 2023, 13:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA is working on ways to teach an AI how to make fast and important triage decisions during mass casualty events and disaster relief
DARPA Names Companies Working on Insanely Capable ANCILLARY VTOL Drone
5 Jul 2023, 12:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA selects nine companies to advance with the AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY drone project
These Two Designs Were Cleared for DARPA’s Liberty Lifter Flying Boat, Love the Twin-Hull
2 Feb 2023, 17:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA announced the names of five companies tasked with designing the Liberty Lifter ground effect airplane, first sketches released
American B-52 Fires Hypersonic Weapon That Can Cover 70 Miles Per Minute
1 Feb 2023, 14:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA, Lockheed Martin and Aerojet Rocketdyne tested for the second time the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, shot from a B-52
NASA/DARPA Want to Test Nuclear Fission Engines by 2027, Can They Bring Us to Mars?
25 Jan 2023, 00:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If ludicrously powerful rocket engines are what you're after, science fiction tells us there's no better place to look than nuclear energy
DARPA Aircraft With No Wing and Tail Control Surfaces Moves Into Design Stage
18 Jan 2023, 11:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA and Boeing's Aurora are moving ahead with their research into the creation of an active flow control aircraft with no control surfaces
Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter Performs Life-Saving Mission for the First Time
2 Nov 2022, 22:54 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Sikorsky and DARPA have successfully demonstrated autonomous mission scenarios with an optionally piloted UH-60A Black Hawk
New Video Shows Military Manta Ray Drone, VR Plays a Role
23 Sep 2022, 07:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Defense contractor Northrop Grumman releases a new video and sheds a bit more light on DARPA's Manta Ray project, VR could play a role
DARPA Sends the RACER Fleet Vehicles on a New Series of Field Tests on Rougher Terrain
22 Sep 2022, 20:31 UTC · By: Ancuta Iosub / The aim of these new field tests it to see if the RACERs can keep up with human driven vehicles in realistic situations at higher speeds
VTOLs Are Not Even Here Yet, And DARPA Already Wants More Advanced Ones
13 Sep 2022, 06:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA's AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY X-Plane program aims to come up with the next gen military VTOLs
DARPA Working on Ground Effect Military Seaplane, Calls It Liberty Lifter
23 May 2022, 07:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Last week, DARPA releases a few limited details on a ground effect military seaplane it calls Liberty Lifter, short video in tow
DARPA Space-Bound Nuclear Thermal Engine to Fly on Demo Rocket in 2026
9 May 2022, 11:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA pushes the first flight of the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) nuclear rocket engine to 2026
Mechanical, Militarized Manta Rays Could Soon Roam Earth’s Oceans
30 Apr 2022, 04:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA is presently trying to get a sense of what a manta ray-shaped underwater drone might be like, two companies are working on prototypes
Glide Breaker Hypersonic Weapons Killer Looking to Start Wind Tunnel and Flight Testing
18 Apr 2022, 07:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA announced this month it is moving ahead with its Glide Breaker hypersonic weapons killer, looking for ideas for wind tunnel and flight tests
Air-Breathing Hypersonic Weapon Concept Hits Mach 5, Survives
6 Apr 2022, 07:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA and American defense contractors successfully fly the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) at five times the speed of sound
Modified Black Hawk Helicopter Flies by Itself for the First Time
9 Feb 2022, 01:35 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / DARPA and Sikorsky have successfully flown a modified UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with no humans on board for the first time
DARPA Wants AI Assistants in Black Hawks, First One Called OCARINA
1 Feb 2022, 15:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA and Northrop Grumman working on an AI-powered personal assistant for UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter pilots, project in prototype stage
DARPA’s Polaris RZRs Getting Ready for First Field Test as Autonomous Combat Vehicles
18 Jan 2022, 13:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA getting ready for the first major field test of the Polaris RZR-based Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program