The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has advanced development of the X-76 experimental aircraft under its SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies, or SPRINT, program. DARPA said Monday ...

Bell’s DARPA SPRINT demonstrator has received the X-76 designation after passing Critical Design Review, with flight testing planned for early 2028.

As science fiction technology quickly continues becoming real, the U.S. military now has plans for an experimental plane taken straight out of video games.

DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. The DARPA ...

In military aviation, the runway has always been a tether. It provides the distance ...

DARPA's X-76 aircraft, designed in cooperation with USSOCOM to break the trade-off between speed and agility, is set to move into the next production phase with Bell Textron.

There's a new X-plane in town. Bell Textron's tilt-rotor aircraft being built for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program, which aims to combine the features of a helicopter ...

Northrop Grumman’s Manta Ray is a new extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicle designed to operate in the deep ocean for months without human support. Developed under DARPA’s Manta Ray program, the ...

Planned to fly in 2028, the X-76 will explore technologies for fast-flying runway-independent aircraft with folding rotors, crewed and uncrewed.

Looking to fly brains for organoid cytomorphic intelligence, may make them play Ms. Pac-Man and put them in smelling drones ...

Bell is reinventing aviation, again.

The new X‑Plane, officially revealed as the X‑76, is able to take off without a runway but still fly at fast speeds like ...