Posted on 11/02/2013 7:18:19 PM PDT by nuconvert
No point to such an aircraft. Satellites and drones have it covered. More likely they are diverting attention from something else. Hopefully they are developing spacecraft, but they’re going to need a lot more speed for that.
I can’t wait to fly over with my jet pack and have a look at it! :O
No pix no plane
From ye olde Bussman-Biplane (Super/Hyper-sonic) designs?
There is technolgy available that will take out all satellites in a world war. I think the planners know this... they are also rebuilding some redundancy in HF coms... digital and encrypted no doubt but backup systems will be needed if it comes to that kind of warfare again. This plane fills a future need and in a newer platform.
Journalists in America have been dead for decades. It appears isolated pockets of them exist outside of America.
Thanks skinkinthegrass.
Aviation Week outs successor to SR 71 “BlackBird” . This one can do Mach 6 and is armed...!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3086576/posts
Lockheed’s SR-72 Could Fill Crucial Pentagon Need
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3086709/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sr71/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sr72/index
ONLINE SR71 BOOK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3061144/posts
Exclusive: Skunk Works Reveals SR-71 Successor Plan
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_11_01_2013_p0-632731.xml
Three things stand out here.
1. First test flight in 2018. Five more years? This is the same type of promise we’ve seen since the late 1980s. The SSTO aircraft was promised a number of times. It’s inception was predicted to take five years, and be operational a considerable time after that. This model fits precisely in that prediction’s footsteps.
2. This is not planned to be a manned aircraft. Great, the promise of flying into near-space, and men won’t be on board. Yawn.
3. This will not be built. The U. S. is in danger of losing it’s role as the world leader of advanced aircraft.
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