SR-91 Aurora: The Hypersonic Spy Plane That Never Was The original story goes something like this: four decades ago, the U.S.

The company is modifying a second carrier aircraft for Talon-A to increase the Pentagon's hypersonic-testing cadence.

Boeing a few days ago introduced an incredible concept design for a spy plane that ... legendary SR-71 spy plane. Dubbed the Son of BlackBird, Boeing’s creation is a hypersonic beast capable ...

The SR-71 could fly at Mach 3.2 (around 2,100 miles per hour)—lightyears faster than anything the Soviet Union could throw at ...

The U.S. Pacific Air Forces told Newsweek that the RC-135 spy planes were conducting planned, routine operations.

However, an aircraft with the "Aurora" designation ... that can be remotely operated from afar have made big-budget hypersonic spy planes unnecessary in this day and age. The U.S. government ...

Stratolaunch will work with the Military Defense Agency to test systems designed to take out hypersonic weapons.

Aerospace company Stratolaunch got a $24.7 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to fire the Talon-A from ...

The United States deployed a second missile-tracking aircraft to an air base in the Western Pacific Ocean, following the nuclear-armed North Korea testing a hypersonic weapon. The North Korean ...

MOSCOW, May 26. /TASS/. Russia’s Sukhoi aircraft maker (part of the United Aircraft Corporation of Russia’s Rostec) is now developing Russia’s first single-engine low-observable hypersonic ...

A U.S. spy plane was spotted flying near the borders of China and North Korea this week on a suspected intelligence-collection mission, as shown on a new Newsweek map. The RC-135V, also known as ...