The Phantom Works division is the advanced prototyping arm of the Defense

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 and Security

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 side of The Boeing Company. Its primary focus is developing advanced military products and technologies, many of them highly classified

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, and has produced breakthroughs in defense, space and security.

Founded by McDonnell Douglas

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, the research and development

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 group continued after Boeing

Boeing

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 acquired the company. Its logo was derived from the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom combat jet.

Phantom Works' organization mirrors that of Boeing's Defense business units, developing new products for their "sister" units. Their ideas are further developed by the Boeing research and technology organization, which adds engineering and manufacturing technologies for use by Boeing's Commercial and Defense units.

An international group does modelling and simulation work for various governments.

Boeing operates secretive facilities in the United States,, Britain, Australia, and India.

Known projects

• Boeing Phantom Eye
  Boeing Phantom Eye
  The Boeing Phantom Eye is a high altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle hydrogen-powered spy plane developed by Boeing Phantom Works...
  
  : High Altitude Long Endurance, reconnaissance drone
• Boeing Phantom Ray
  Boeing Phantom Ray
  |-See also:...
  
  : Unmanned flying test bed for advanced air system technologies
• Boeing X-51
  Boeing X-51
  The Boeing X-51 is an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic flight testing. It successfully completed its first free-flight on 26 May 2010 and also achieved the longest duration flight at speeds over Mach 5.The X-51 Waverider program is run as a cooperative effort of the United...
  
   Wave-rider: Hypersonic vehicle
• Boeing Condor
  Boeing Condor
  -External links:*, Boeing*, Hiller Aviation Museum*...
  
  : High Altitude Long Endurance concept drone
• McDonnell Douglas YF-23: Black Widow Advanced Fighter concept
• McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II: Advanced Navy Stealth Fighter concept
• X-32 Joint Strike Fighter
  Boeing X-32
  The Boeing X-32 was a multi-purpose jet fighter in the Joint Strike Fighter contest. It lost to the Lockheed Martin X-35 demonstrator which was further developed into the F-35 Lightning II.-Background:...
  
  
• Bird of Prey: stealth fighter UAV demonstrator
• A160 Hummingbird
  Boeing A160 Hummingbird
  The Boeing A160 Hummingbird is an unmanned aerial vehicle helicopter. Its design incorporates many new technologies never before used in helicopters, allowing for greater endurance and altitude than any helicopter currently in operation.The development of Hummingbird was begun by Frontier Aircraft...
  
   UAV helicopter
• X-45 UCAV
  Boeing X-45
  The Boeing X-45 unmanned combat air vehicle is a concept demonstrator for a next generation of completely autonomous military aircraft, developed by Boeing's Phantom Works. Manufactured by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, the X-45 was a part of DARPA's J-UCAS project.-Development:Boeing developed...
  
  
• X-37 Advanced Technology Demonstrator
  Boeing X-37
  The Boeing X-37 is an American unmanned vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane. The X-37 is operated by the United States Air Force for orbital spaceflight missions intended to demonstrate reusable space technologies...
  
  
• Pelican ULTRA
  Boeing Pelican
  |-See also:-External links:* Boeing Frontiers online magazine*...
  
  
• X-48 Blended Wing Body
  Boeing X-48
  The X-48 is an experimental unmanned aerial vehicle for investigation into the characteristics of blended wing body aircraft, a type of flying wing. It is under development by Boeing and NASA.-Background:...
  
   demonstrator
• X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing
• Quad TiltRotor
  Bell Boeing Quad TiltRotor
  The Bell Boeing Quad TiltRotor is a proposed four-rotor derivative of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor developed jointly by Bell Helicopter and Boeing. The concept is a contender in the U.S. Army's Joint Heavy Lift program...
  
   (with Bell Helicopter)
• F/A-XX
  F/A-XX
  Next Generation Air Dominance is a development and acquisition program for a future sixth generation air superiority fighter to replace the US Navy's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet beginning in 2025. It is planned to incorporate sixth generation stealth capability. The aircraft is to be operated with or...
  
  : sixth generation fighter concept

See also

• Inside the Phantom Works - DEW Line article
• Skunk Works
  Skunk works
  Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs , formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-22 Raptor...
  
  , a similar division of Lockheed Martin
  Lockheed Martin
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