The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has ended its experiment to create a heavy cargo seaplane. The nearly three-year-old Liberty Lifter program was intended to design and build - and ...
The “Frosty” radar system’s operation is vastly different from existing radars—and could be less disrupted by the Arctic’s harsh conditions as a result.
As we reported in our article about the new Chinese design, an ekranoplan uses the aerodynamic concept of ground effect to travel at high speeds just above the surface of water (or, less commonly, ...
Under the fancy name AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY (ANCILLARY), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) kickstarted back in 2023 the search for a special kind ...
Aurora Flight Sciences tweaked its original Liberty Lifter design to move floats to its wingtips and adjust its tail to better accommodate its aft cargo door. (Aurora Flight Sciences) The Defense ...