She Never Flew: Concepts from the X-44 Manta may have influenced the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, which is developing a sixth-generation fighter to replace the F-22. ...

Nature can be many things: beautiful, strange, ever-changing, and downright bizarre. In the marine world, many species ...

Diving into the autonomous submarine race, DARPA has awarded contracts to three companies as part of its Manta Ray Program. Intended to support a new generation of long-duration, long-range Unmanned ...

Imagery released today by Northrop Grumman provides a close up view of one of the two rear propellers of the Manta Ray UUV (uncrewed underwater vehicle). Just a few hours after a new 360° video of the ...

What You Need to Know: The Lockheed Martin X-44 Manta, short for “Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft,” was a groundbreaking stealth fighter concept developed by NASA and the U.S. Air Force in 1999. It was ...

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a $41.2 million contract to produce and test an unmanned underwater vehicle demonstrator for the second phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded ...

The ocean’s so-called little hitchhikers may not always be just along for the ride.