There's no certainty here, but the SR-72 would build on the successful SR-71. It would be the fastest plane ever in service if made.
Like a bolt out of the blue, Lockheed Martin’s renown Skunk Works publicly teased one of aviation’s great snark hunts—revealing plans for a successor to the SR-71, the legendary Mach-3 reconnaissance plane designed with slide rules and retired when the millennials were born.
That 59-year old aircraft, originally developed as an uber-interceptor, still holds the record for fastest sustained supersonic flight at 2,100 miles per hour—much faster than a .50-caliber bullet.
But the new plane just announced, the SR-72, will fly twice as fast—so fast that at top speed the very air entering its engines will be moving as fast as an SR-71. Keeping combustion and thrust going under such conditions has been likened to lighting a cigar in a hurricane. The SR-72’s planned ability to go from a standing start to Mach 6 and back again is a hat trick no one has been able to pull off.
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9 comments:
There's having your priorities in order!! There's a whole faction of federal government we know nothing about yet you dumbasses believe your government has your best interest at heart. Wake up people your nation is under attack physically, mentally and financially. Your leaders steal your money right in front of your faces yet you do/say nothing about it
We say plenty but it falls on deaf and dumb ears. Sending monies to countries that hate us is on the list right alongside of voting yourself a pay raise and term limits. When brought up all you hear from a politician is 'crickets' !!
Frankly 1:45 AM, I think the U.S. is merely keeping pace. Look what China is doing in the South China Sea. Also, you are naive if you don't think Russia is working on something similar.
right 1:45, so we should just cede the high ground to the russians and chicomms?
You got a criminal organization letting biological weapons loose on the world and we should just stand down?
thank goodness you aren't in charge!
every government has no ones interests at heart except making sure they are still here when everything else isn't!
We can make him faster, stronger, much better than before.... i think I've seen this one before.
That's why NO ONE (they TALK a lot of smack, but....) wants the American military on their ace.
They KNOW what we can unleash and they want THAT pit bull kept in a cage.
It's a great country.
Can you IMAGINE for a moment if a country like China had the absolute military dominance that WE have???
You would be speaking Chinese and talking about the "Great Leader".
Keep cheering, you goofs.
Imclan,
I don’t have a military.
Nobody I know has a military.
I seriously doubt that You have a military.
The evil rotten US Government built a massive killing machine using counterfeit US Dollars. Is that the military you are referring to?
2:45 your reply to Imclain makes zero sense.
The new technology that is required to be developed for this airplane benefits the whole world. Who else could have the resources and manpower capable of doing this??
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