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To: freedumb2003
It was a stroke of brilliance to retire the SR-71, wasn’t it?

Satellites were supposed to do it all. Apparently not in some cases. The Chinese Junk fighters aren't ever gonna catch a U2 anyway.
14 posted on 07/25/2011 7:05:38 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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To: truthguy
Satellites were supposed to do it all. Apparently not in some cases.

Despite what Hollywood tells us, satellites don't have the resolution that a U2 or SR-71 can provide.

41 posted on 07/25/2011 8:00:30 PM PDT by The Theophilus (Obama's Key to win 2012: Ban Haloperidol)
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To: truthguy; TigersEye; mojitojoe; Fred Nerks; LucyT
The Chinese Junk fighters aren't ever gonna catch a U2 anyway.>>>>>>>>>>>>>

U2s operate at altitudes upwards of 70,000 feet, PLUS. Unless the Chinese have equipment we do not know of, this is how you say, "flame out" in Chinese:

熄火! ( Xīhuǒ!)

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58 posted on 07/25/2011 8:26:04 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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