Posted on 02/08/2020 6:51:49 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Yes, Russia Once Had Its Own Version of the SR-71 Blackbird How did it end?
...Still, brilliant Soviet engineer Pavel Tsybin came close to developing a “Soviet Blackbird”—though it, in fact, predated the A-12/Blackbird by several years and was originally conceived as a nuclear bomber.
By 1957, OKB-256 had built an NM-1 three-quarter-scale demonstrator equipped with two Mikulin AM-5 turbojets instead. After multiple delays, the subsonic test model made the first of 32 test flights on April 7, 1959. These revealed the airframe’s unstable takeoff handling and flight characteristics—meaning the jet needed to be re-engineered.
Supposedly, three or five RSR-020s airframes were completed at the No.99 factory at Ulan-Ude, Siberia, awaiting only fitting of their engines. However, the project was axed on October 1960 and the airframes eventually scrapped
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Good band named SR-71 in the ‘90s.
I thought it was a submarine for some reason.
Must have been thinking of lunch :)
No, they didn’t. The article negates its own title.
So, after reading the whole article, the headline ought to be more along the lines of :
“No, the USSR did not really have a “Blackbird-like” aircraft.”
Oh, well, so much for that.
Pictures or it never happened.
“Must have been thinking of lunch :)”
I’m always thinking of lunch, or dinner, or breakfast...
Most of my clan have the ultimate fear of dying hungry.
The family’s favorite way to avoid the fear is to continually snack.
Yes, then I need to do pence on the bicycle, for hours, but not too much eating while riding.
I read it and had thoughts like “I could have developed a cure for cancer, but...didn’t!”
The one that stuck in my brain was “If frogs had wings, they wouldn’t whomp their ass every time they jumped.”
Point is, they had good scientists in the Soviet Union, but good scientists aren’t good enough to build a SR-71. You need the will and determination to do it, both requiring an overarching framework of a government/economy substructure to make it happen.
They didn’t.
Right. Anyone can conceive of an idea. That is nothing like actually implementing it.
You really do the bike for that long?
Mine’s used to put wet towels on to dry :)
Your posts are always optimistic and/or positive and/or cheery.
It SICKENS ME!!
Be Miserable like the rest of us!! :)
Just kidding. Always look forward to your posts :)
Pictures or it never happened.
How about a wiki page with a sketch and specs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsybin_RSR
There is nothing impossible is Sr-71 the Soviets couldn’t make at the time. The article correctly points at the fact that the system was considered absolete with the appearance of ICBMs and space reconnaissence.
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That is a great read!
Also, there is a full book on the same subject, available on pdf.
IIRC there was a documentary about this plane, they actually built a nuclear powered airplane but the crews couldn’t stand the radiation and with shielding it wouldn’t fly.
A few yrs ago visited the Dayton Air Museum...the SR 71 up close is small, and is like heavy duty paper mache...I found it weird and kinda liked not knowing that before.
how about a nuclear powered unmanned drone, with heat rays that could stay over a target literally for weeks?
Wow. That’s actually interesting.
What’s the advantage of a nuclear powered airplane?
It’s not like subs where it’s moving for weeks and months at a time.
You really do the bike for that long?
Yes, but I can only take the rollers or a spin bike for a max of two hours, most days it is one hour. In the street, I would go all day.
After that evil car ran me down & 20 days hospital...
The street was frighting to me.
Last year I quit riding in the street.
BUT! Another Freeper posted rowing videos with subliminal messages to purchase one, and I did.
It feels so good to get off the bike.
Then have a full(?) seat on the rower, to sit on for 5k.
Then shower and dinner!
Maybe a nice drumstick on a string at a distance in front would bring up my numbers?
The advantage would be it could stay aloft for extended periods, and yes an unmanned drone might answer, just enough shielding to protect the electronics. I’m not in aviation. If it’s practical we probably have one but it’s “secret”.
I never said it was impossible for them. After all, they did build deployable nuclear weapons.
Their flaw is that they considered it obsolete. Which could not have been further from the truth.
So, given the shortcomings of their government and decision making process (which was decidedly leftist in nature, and that isn’t a compliment) it was of course, wrong.
So they never made one.
We got decades of vital and important use out of those we built.
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