Could Top Gun's Darkstar be hiding a real aircraft?

Last month, Sandboxx News broke the story that Lockheed Martin’s legendary Skunk Works team was directly involved in the development of a full-sized mockup of the hypersonic Darkstar aircraft featured in Top Gun: Maverick.

There seems to be much more to this story than a cool-looking imaginary airplane, and the truth is, Darkstar may not be as fictional as you think. In fact, Lockheed Martin has been working on just such an aircraft for a long time now… And although they’ve purged their website of any mention of it, we managed to dig up some interesting bits of evidence.

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Further Reading:
The full story on Sandboxx News: https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/is-there-a-real-secret-aircraft-behind-lockheed-and-top-guns-darkstar/
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ producer says Darkstar looked so real it fooled China: https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/top-gun-maverick-producer-says-darkstar-looked-so-real-china-moved-spy-satellite-to-see-it%EF%BF%BC/
Darkstar: Is 'Top Gun's' Maverick flying an SR-72?: https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/darkstar-is-top-guns-maverick-flying-an-sr-72/

Citations:
Mayhem: https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/missile-defense-weapons/afrl-releases-334-million-solicitation-hypersonic-mayhem
Mayhem ROI: https://www.govconwire.com/2022/03/afrl-issues-solicitation-for-mayhem-hypersonic-missile-development-program/
WayBack Machine Links: https://web.archive.org/web/20180301000000*/https://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/features/2015/sr-72.html
Lockheed Martin's Darkstar webpage: https://lockheedmartin.com/topgun
2018 O'Banion Report: https://sofrep.com/news/lockheed-martin-vp-suggests-they-may-already-have-an-operational-sr-72-prototype/
Bloomberg Quote: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/america-s-fastest-spy-plane-may-be-back-and-hypersonic#xj4y7vzkg
SR-72 Tech Demonstrators in 2017: https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/amid-sr-72-rumors-skunk-works-ramps-hypersonics
Palmdale Plant Development: https://www.dailynews.com/2021/08/18/lockheed-expands-skunk-works-operations-in-palmdale/
Wired's SR-72 coverage in 2007: https://www.wired.com/2007/06/like-all-defens/

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