I thought that it looked like a modular design, and the article calls it a “module”, so I thought I’d check the DARPA site. According to the DARPA site, it will be a modular design. The wing/fans/engines/fuel/control module will be able to attach to several different “mission modules”, depending on the requirements of the mission. That design provides a lot of valuable flexibility. Impressive.
And it doesn’t exist yet. Criminitly you cannot have some artist give you a pretty picture and then just magically say to the engineers, hey make it work. That never turns out well.
As pictured this is a hot mess