Military aircraft are a little bit like sports cars. Form follows function to make something utterly striking, regardless of whether beauty has any tactically relevant advantage. But form must follow ...

They say that you should never judge a book by its cover, but this is also true in the world of technology. Some devices look sleek, aesthetically pleasing and boast a range of color options.

Although Lockheed's "Have Blue" prototype that eventually led to the F-117 Nighthawk is widely recognized as the grand daddy of stealth technology, Northrop's Tacit Blue, aka "The Whale," demonstrator ...

Key point: These drones share technology that was discovered before but is only now being put to full use. Here’s how it happened. The U.S. Navy’s new MQ-25 Stingray aerial-refueling drone bears an ...

In the early 1980s, a revolutionary and highly secretive aircraft known as Tacit Blue took its first-ever test flights over the Nevada landscape. Curved, stealthy and straight out of a science fiction ...

Not every program DARPA undertakes can be another Big Dog—the agency has had its fair share of fizzled experiments over the years—but even those failures can yield exciting new insights. Just look at ...

Nominated by the staff of the Air Force Flight Test Center History Office at California's Edwards Air Force Base. An experimental stealth technology demonstrator flown in the mid-1980s, Tacit Blue's ...

Boeing clearly expects the MQ-25 to grow. The U.S. Navy’s new MQ-25 Stingray aerial-refueling drone bears an uncanny resemblance to an experimental U.S. military plane from the late 1970s. And that ...

A short teaser video posted by Boeing on Twitter showing the company-funded prototype of its offering for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray has raised questions about why its design for an unmanned ...