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 ...

DARPA's ANCILLARY program aims to enhance VTOL UAS capabilities by a factor of three, with plans for X-plane flight tests in ...

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." ...

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 ...