DARPA's ANCILLARY program aims to enhance VTOL UAS capabilities by a factor of three, with plans for X-plane flight tests in 2026. In the science fiction/pop culture world, there are entertainment ...

DARPA has selected the next design of its VTOL X-Plane, a crazy UAV with 24 ducted fans, a 4,000-hp engine, and the ability to hit speeds up to 460 mph. This post is appearing on Autoblog Military ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants its SPRINT vertical takeoff aircraft, dubbed X-plane, to be able to ... during that transition, a DARPA official told Defense News in December ...

What would you think if we told you that DARPA is considering a plane that would fly non-stop for 5 years without burning a single drop of fuel? They are, and it's called the Vulture program ...

Produced by Matt Stuart. Video courtesy of DARPA and Aurora Flight Sciences. Follow TI: On Facebook More from Tech The VTOL X-Plane is scheduled to take its first flight in 2018 and will be unlike ...

DARPA just revealed an animation showing the conceptual design and functionality of its unmanned VTOL X-Plane, nicknamed "Lightningstrike." VTOL stands for "vertical takeoff and landing." ...

Driverless cars may have been making headlines of late, but DARPA’s ALIAS program has also ... The ALIAS tech has built upon five decades of plane automation. And it also leverages cutting ...