Pictured above: U.S. Marines inspect a Tactical Unmanned Aerial System RQ-7B Shadow. The Shadow drone is capable of providing reconnaissance, surveillance, and a laser designator for air support.
Looking like a miniature B-21 bomber, DARPA has shown off its new Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration (SHEPARD) program aircraft. Called the XRQ-73, the long-range hybrid-electric ...
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Hybrid-electric US military drone tested for 18,000-foot flight with ultra-low engine noise
A new US military drone with hybrid-electric propulsion made its first flight in April ...
First flight milestone: The XRQ-73 flew in April 2026, marking a key step in testing hybrid-electric propulsion for military applications under DARPA’s SHEPARD program. Stealth and endurance: Its ...
The XRQ-73 is linked to Northrop’s earlier XRQ-72A project. Both aircraft feature a tailless, flying wing configuration akin ...
Two requests to industry may help the Pentagon address one of the emerging challenges of warfare: enabling a relatively small ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Tactical Technology Office (TTO) will hold a two-day virtual proposers event May 3 and 4 to provide detailed information to vendors about an array ...
Digging into DARPA's history to suss out the agency's most significant, sometimes scary research from the last two decades. Reading time 11 minutes Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the ...
Researchers working with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have been awarded a $1 million grant to create a prototype quantum laser unlike anything we've ever seen. the laser ...
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