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 Blackbirdthough 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 airframes unstable takeoff handling and flight characteristicsmeaning 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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I know the difference between these platforms.
F-15 was primarily designed to counter Mig. Or that they thought of it.
Yes. But it was no role model.
I think it was viewed as a high-performance fighter before Belenko defection.
Must have been thinking of lunch :)
What this country needs is a good supersonic calzone. Then we can have a song that goes "Highway to the danger calzone."
Can you put a shirt into the oven for me?
Mm, she's hot as a pepper but smooth as a Mexican brew. So head for the border and put in an order or two. The wings of the blackbird will spread like an eagle for you.
IOW, no, Russia didn’t have its own version of the SR-71 Blackbird because they could never solve the technical obstacles. The titanium used to build the SR-71 was actually mined in the USSR by a front company set up by the CIA, and you just know they figured it out after it was too late. That must have chapped their asses each time there was an overflight. :^)
Huh. I stand corrected. It appears I need to re-examine what I (apparently) assumed were facts.
My apologies.
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