The U.S. military is developing a new experimental aircraft known as the X-68A and looks a lot like a cruise missile that is also capable of launching its own missiles.

The futuristic tech, funded by DARPA, would allow the U.S. military to preemptively detect danger from a remarkably long distance.

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Tests included wind tunnel evaluations and demonstrations of the parachute recovery and weapons-release systems.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) tasked BBN Technologies with coming up with a kilometer-range X-ray scanner.

An air-launched missile-carrying uncrewed aircraft developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems for DARPA’s LongShot project has been designated the X-68A ahead of flight tests expected by ...

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The first flight test for the X-68A was originally set to begin in December of 2023, Breaking Defense previously reported.

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