DARPA Large Hypersonic Bomber Prototype Project

By Brian Wang

February 13 2025, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced its secretive Aerospace Projects Office (APO) is developing a large hypersonic bomber prototype as part of the Next Generation Responsive Strike (NextRS) program.

The NextRS hypersonic bomber project aims to create a reusable, large-scale platform capable of multi-mission …