Simple Flying shall now try to explain DARPA's X-planes a little bit further. A bit of history: the original X-planes The ...

It just ballooned. DARPA also experimented with unmanned drones during the Vietnam War. How did that technology develop? The drones in Vietnam were these massive systems that didn't have any ...

When F-15 fighter pilot Maj. Benjamin “Irish” Coffey launched his jet one night last spring, he wasn’t expecting to run out ...

As the age of manned submarines and aircraft carriers fades, the U.S. Navy must shift its focus toward Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) like DARPA’s prototype, the Manta. UUVs offer a more ...

Another alternative is to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially vertical landing and takeoff platforms, such as ducted-fan organic air vehicles (OAVs), an offshoot of DARPA’s micro air ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), for example, has been working on a programme dubbed Gremlins; micro-drones the size and shape of missiles, designed to be dropped from ...

During a DARPA-led test earlier this year, one of those drones, known as Gremlins, was successfully recovered in flight by a C-130 aircraft. If they can perform the mission the US military has in ...

DARPA, the agency behind innovations ranging from the Arpanet to weather satellites, from UAV technology to Siri, is looking to accelerate the impact of the technologies it funds to create ...

Sikorsky's autonomous Black Hawk uses AI to locate fires and drop water, showcasing advanced rapid wildfire response ...