GOD DAMNIT! I was gonna say that lmao. They only admit to stuff if they have something waaay better already out and about. The old dot gov is a sneaky snake. pretty cool aircraft either way. I wanna see what they are still hiding though.
Remember that the former head of Skunk Works stated; "we have the technology to take E.T. home". If we know about it, that means they are 20 years ahead.
he said take your wildest imagination of technology and add 100 years to that, we now have the technology to take E.T. home but it would take an act of god to use it for good not war, was said in the early 90s, the tech now is unbelievable
That would be Ben Rich. It was at the end of some speech I think he was giving to graduating MIT students... that was in the 70's. Considering that in 1965 we had a working Cold Fusion reaction that went for over 30 seconds (see Dark Journalist video on it a week or two ago here on YT, with guest Dr Joseph Farrel) ; demonstrated by Filo Pharnsworth of ITT, (and used power sources that you can get from just plugging it into the regular wall outlet), and then immediately went dark and all material "disappeared" and discredited by ITT, later to have a showcase video promotional ad in the early 2000's by, Lockheed Martin, showing a Fusion reactor that looked JUST LIKE Filo Pharnsworth' invention and photos/video from 1965, but a little bit larger. Oh the fusion reaactor from Pharnsworth was the size of a softball, and not the monstrous sized hot fusion reactors of today's public companies that are using hot plasma techniques like the Tokamac etc, and are only now getting fusion reactions that last a couple minutes now. So yeah, you can bet Lockkheed and company has this stuff very well advanced out now; amd this Darkstar you can be certain is just the kindergarten show model for the general public to oooh and awwwe over.
Pratt & Whitney has been making airplanes engines since the 1920s. They provided the engines for many WWII era planes (F6F Hellcat, F4U Corsair, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-61 Black Widow, etc.) as well as many modern fighters (F-35 Lightning II, F-15 Eagle, F-16, F-22 Raptor, EA6B Prowler, F-117 Night Hawk, C-17 Globemaster III, E-3 AWACS, etc.). They are (and have been) one of the most premier aircraft engine manufacturers in the world. What aircraft engine manufacturers HAVE you heard of?😳 BTW, "Dark Star" reminds me of a song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.😉 Mach 6 = 4603.614 mph OR 1.2 miles per second (I think 🤔).
I was tring to figure out how make a similar coment about not knowing who Pratt and Whitney was but was unable to say it without an undertone of (You dumb ass!). Upps! I guess I said it aftr all!
@@mracer8the sr-71 was designed in 1958 and was built and ready in the early 60s. The f117 was designed in the 70s and flown in the 80sand used in the 90s . Their farther ahead than u could imagine
Yeah, that was funny when he said he had never heard of that company and he has done several videos on aircraft. Yeah, been in LOTS of military aircraft. Just like Rolls Royce mate.
Never heard of Pratt & Whitney? Pratt & Whitney's military engines include the F135 engine for the 5th Generation F-35 Lightning II, the F119 for the F-22 Raptor, the F100 family that powers the F-15 and F-16, the F117 for the C-17 Globemaster III, the TF33 powering AWACS, B-52, as well as the PW4062/F139 for the KC-46A Pegasus.
Lol, they only gave the public an estimated top speed of Mach 3.2. The actual top speed is still highly classified. So, if they're advertising Mach 6, you can safely add another 30% to that number.
@@JoeAlbright-o2v the video stated 6, other articles on the subject have stated 6 as well. The SR-71, was advertised at 3.5, but as I said, actual speed is still classified. There is an easy way to get a glimpse as to how fast the blackbird was. It flew from Edwards AFB to Andrews AFB in a little over an hour. Google the distance between the 2, the flight has been publicized. Fastest cross country flight.
@@yulfine1688can’t remember one of the pilots names. But he claimed he personally hit 3.6-3.7. Which personally I believe as officially I think they dated the highest speed it hit was 3.2 or 3.3…with the fastest flight being 3.3-3.5…so yeah. If they want a cruising speed of Mach 6…my god. Presumably it’d have a higher top speed, for short periods. Though I don’t know how they could squeeze out much more speed without liquid or solid fuel rocket boosters. On board…cause adding more fuel will only get you so far…unless those engines are even more insanely powerful than we know, don’t can super cruise at Mil power, aka, below afterburner, they’d have to be the most efficient and powerful engines ever made, to super cruise etc Mach 6 and still have extra juice on tap for even higher speeds, and possibly after burner of some sort.
I know five people who worked inside Area 51. None of them ever saw UFO's but one told me that he saw the B-1 bomber while he was in the USAF (or maybe it was the B-2, I forgot) begin to slow down in mid air to what seemed impossibly slow to keep flying but it continued to slow down until it stopped in mid air and hovered without making a sound. This friend is someone that I would call a brother; for more than one reason. I trust that he'd never lie to me or make up any wild stories. I'm a veteran also but I was in the US Army and I saw a UFO while in training at Fort Gordon GA. That's a long story but the short version: my sighting lasted less than one second but the impact it had on me has lasted over 25 years. It was directly over our heads and one soldier screamed when he saw it. If he hadn't screamed I'd have probably never seen it because that's the only reason I looked up. And then I got yelled at by our civilian instructor for looking at it.
I worked for the fed gov for a while and i never saw a ufo or anything but I have seen lots of hidden anti air and other silos all over the place where you would never think they were hidden. our government really is the top dog no matter what everyone thinks.
i believe in you brother,if one country that can develop super high tech would be US,human capable to create that kind of peace of art,but it also feels unreal so "they" make it as "extraterestial vehicle" that only alien can created it,when in reality WE are that alien,well after all US spends $800 billion dollar per year in military..so with all the money and resources,its not far fetch to say they been able to create it.
@@popcornmovietrailer960 It's a lot more than $800 billion that the US spends on its military. I've heard that it's somewhere around three trillion dollars but it's hard to say because a lot of that is "black budget" projects. The thing that I saw could have been our own technology for all that I know. In that moment I was certain that I was looking at alien technology but honestly it would be even more exciting if it was our own technology because that would mean that somewhere out there are people (humans; born and raised in earth) that are exploring our solar system and possibly the entire universe. If that technology is ours then it means that humans have most likely already walked on Mars; possibly Europa and other planets and may have visited other star systems. This is gonna seem really random and out of the blue but I have really weird dreams. I always have. Flying dreams; lucid dreams etc. I have dreams that I'm visiting places that I've never been and there's no way I could have ever been there so there's no reason I should be having dreams about walking on Mars or visiting the Pleiades constellation and discovering a super advanced civilization that's overcome the need for war; overcome the need for physical bodies etc but I had a dream like that. In this dream their planet looked a lot like earth. They had streets and buildings that you could easily mistake for being earth except that most of their planet was beautiful woods; forest; jungles etc. The cities weren't huge but for some reason I felt completely at home there like I had been there before and there were no people that I could SEE - not a single one, but I *felt* them. It was a crazy feeling - the exact opposite of loneliness if there is such a thing and despite the lack of people. I felt like this entire civilization was present with me all at once but nonphysical. Like they had overcome the cycle of life and death and even though I was the only person physically on the planet I never felt more loved and alive than I did in that dream. I had a sense that they *could* take on physical form if they chose to because they manufactured their own bodies but they chose to remain nonphysical for a variety of reasons. I remember seeing some sort of weird pool in front of some sort of university or place of learning and it was like a big lake except that the water was perfectly clear and the bottom was mirrored. Like some sort of reflecting pool made specifically for contemplation and there was a small wooden bridge that crossed over it. At one point I was flying toward a building going at insane speeds like I was about to crash into it and then I made an instantaneous 90 degree change in direct immediately before I almost slammed into this building and was flying straight up the length of the building with my feet almost touching it and then I remember being told that I wasn't supposed to be there and that's where the dream ended. It's hard to describe but it was one of those kinds of dreams that is so beautiful and perfect that you never want to leave - the kind of dream that you wake up from with tears in your eyes after you open them and look around at the world you live in. But I also had a strong sense that the world I witnessed in this dream - a world without war; hunger; pollution; death and worst of all - politicians... was possible here on earth if we don't destroy ourselves first. I realize that it was just a dream but it gave me hope for humanity because in this dream I had the feeling that I had been in the presence of God except God (our creator) wasn't some invisible mysterious force that we can't see - it was an entire civilization of people that are like us but more advanced; they created us from their own DNA and in a sense we're related to them like family and they love us more than we could ever imagine. I had this dream years ago and it still almost brings me to tears remembering it.
@@popcornmovietrailer960 Lol! I just noticed your screen name immediately after I hit "send". I'm a professional working actor and a screenwriter as well. Trained at Playhouse West as an actor and trained at the Writers Guild Foundation in Hollywood. I'm trying to figure out a way to write this "dream" that I had into one of my screenplays because it had such a strong impact on me; I wish there was some way that I could give this experience and the ideas that came along with it to other people. What better way to do that than through story telling / screenwriting / movie making? 🍿 So I'm adding it towards the end of a time travel story that I started developing while I was still in training at the Writers Guild Foundation. I wish I could tell you more about this story but it's still a work in progress and I haven't gotten it registered yet with the Writers Guild. When I was still in training we did a lot of practice pitches with real studio executives and development executives from major agencies like Creative Artists Agency; Sony Pictures; DreamWorks; Mission Entertainment & several others. I used this particular time travel story as my practice pitch - this was just for PRACTICE BTW... I wasn't even trying to sell the story yet or land a literary manager but at the end of one of those pitches I was handed a business card by a literary manager who told me to call her once the screenplay is complete. But one of the characters in the story is based on Richard Feynman so I decided to write a screenplay about his life first; complete it; finish the time travel story and then I'll have two different screenplays to pitch / sell at the same time. Most literary managers aren't interested in representing a "one hit wonder" who only had one single story because they want to make money from you. They're more interested in representing someone who is a prolific writer that's constantly writing and has more than just one story to tell. I have about thirteen different screenplays in progress right now but the number one priority is the Richard Feynman story because he is my idol; I honestly think he's the most interesting person that ever lived (just *my* opinion). The character in the time travel story isn't actually Richard Feynman; it's a fictional story but the character has his intellect and personality so I figured it would be a good idea to write his actual story first just to sort of nail down this fictional character that's based on him. Feynman BTW didn't believe in aliens or UFO's in fact if you watch his lectures (which are all available on UA-cam) somebody once asked him his thoughts on UFO's and he said that he believes that "these stories about UFO's are more likely due to the irrational characteristics of human intelligence than the rational efforts of nonhuman intelligence. He was hilarious and entertaining, he made science fun and easy to learn because he was able to explain complex things using simple language that anybody could understand. His lectures are like ASMR for me - I literally listen to his lectures as I'm drifting off to sleep every single night and my favorite one is "Los Alamos From Below". I'm still pissed that Nolan made a movie about Oppenheimer instead of Feynman. Oppenheimer was a boring person; there's no reason to make a movie about him. Richard Feynman was a prankster and a troublemaker. He was a great teacher and story teller who was always challenging the authorities and pissing people off. NASA didn't like him one bit because he embarrassed them after the challenger disaster; during a live press conference where he famously pulled a piece of rubber from the Shuttle O rings out of his pocket and dropped it into a glass of ice water while talking for a minute and then pulled it out to demonstrate that the rubber O rings became brittle at low temperatures - NASA had been trying to sweep this fact under the carpet and he embarrassed them on national television.
13:31 What’s more impressive is going from man’s first flight to landing on the moon in 66 years - well within one lifetime. Imagine being age 10 and seeing the first powered flight, then watching the moon landing at age 76. Nuts. The America that did that in 66 years is the America we need today.
And you have to think , when they originally developed the SR-71 they didn't have computers, they did it all with hundreds of engineers using slide rulers, that makes it even more astonishing.
Kelly Johnson was the lead on making the SR71 he was the lead on all the i2 spy plane working at Skunkwprks . It was peritoneal the year I was born 1959 Kelly was a genius in Airplane Egineering
@johndomoe3735 but they still didn't trust them, so everything was double-checked by live engineers, I have seen old declassified photographs of the engineering dept. literally 50 to 60 desks of engineers verifying calculations.
Yes, Pratt & Whitney is a very common make of aircraft engines. The Cessna 206/207, many Beechcraft, the ATR-72, Dehaviland Dash8, and iterations of the 747 (just to name a few) all use Pratt & Whitney engines.
@@casual_time_machine6536 the J58 axial-flow turbojet could only push the SR-71 to about Mach 3.5 after that complications with engine airflow and compression “maxed” out. At that speed however, there is enough air flow (air speed thru the engine) to power a “ram jet” up through hypersonic speeds. That was not truly possible until recently. Rockets exceeded Mach 5 but can’t be reused. The SR-72 and several others apparently have mastered this dual stage engine tech and its engineering challenges resulting in a truely reusable and landable aircraft.
it’s kinda funny how aircraft’s getting to a point where it doesn’t need to be a secret because no foreign craft can match its speed, power and capabilities
It would still be good to be kept secret purely based on the fact you can implement it in a war without any enemies knowing what is about to hit them and giving them no time for counter measures
whatever specs they release to the public will be misleading , or overstated , or understated or missing context etc etc - the mil knows how to keep it's mouth shut when it comes to the cutting edge stuff.
I still can't get over how brilliant people were back then. The SR-71 was built in the 1960's. Computers were still being developed at that time. This means the people who designed the SR-71 relied on protractors and slide rulers. Oh and you Royal Marines had your own thing. You guys created the first hovering jet called the Harrier. A bit I saw on it was the pilots went through so much simulation training that when they used them in combat they downed roughly 10 enemy craft per one Harrier lost I think.
I should have read your comment before I said draft tables and slide rules. I don't talk much about that aircraft because of what we were doing when we retired it, but the capabilities were mind blowing 34 years ago.
I was camping in Nevada 6 years ago, it was night and very dark. A pair of jets started flying to where we could hear them and see their lights when they flew over. Obviously they knew we were there, they did a really cool low fly over that turned into a straight up flight path. This jet went from maybe 500 feet, to looking like a star and not able to be heard incredibly quick, then gone. The thing I noticed that surprised me was you couldn't hear it until it was basically right on top of you, then once it passed you it was basically impossible to hear as well.
The B21 is already a “6th gen” aircraft and is already flying. I think you will see and hear even more about new 6th gen aircraft as we get into 2030 and beyond.
6th gen aircraft need to be able to command and control support drones. Wich that aircraft cannot. Generation classification is far more than just "the next aircraft" to come out in a certain line.
@@lordjeremyhirsch7009every country has a different definition of what 6th gen actually is… is what your saying something everyone has finally come together to agree on???
@dr.bright3081 People can't even agree on how many genders there are anymore... I think what everyone can agree on, is the "generations" represent a massive increase in capabilities and tech. Not some small step. 😁👍
Pratt & Whitney's military engines include the F135 engine for the 5th Generation F-35 Lightning II, the F119 for the F-22 Raptor, the F100 family that powers the F-15 and F-16, the F117 for the C-17 Globemaster III, the TF33 powering AWACS, B-52, as well as the PW4062/F139 for the KC-46A Pegasus They’ve made military aircraft engines since 1925
@@robwalls6057 Pratt and Whitney have been powering aircraft for almost 100 years. The B17, B29, the F4 wildcats, the F4F Hellcats, the amF4u Corsair s, and P47 Thunderbolts were all powered by Pratt and Whitney radial wasp engines.
One of my customers develops jet parts for both Pratt & Whitney and Space X. They are building sections of the scramjets to be used in other craft downwind of the Darkstar. 😅
Sandbox has an in depth video about Hermes where he interviews and tours the factory where its being made and developed. And we already have 6th gen aircraft probably in service with the B21 raider bomber which is 6th gen and already flying.
My dad worked at that Patt and Whitney in Florida for most of my childhood. They make engines for tons of military, commercial planes and some rockets.
Regeneratively cooled composites allow for hypersonic flights without ablative surface cooling btw. Pump the fuel through the aircraft's skin to pressurize it and sink heat from the hypersonic heated surfaces. Then use the pressure to inject into the combustion cycle.
The SR72 is actually meant to be a hypersonic airframe, meaning it is able to reach speeds of Mach 10. Not just Mach 6. This is due to the new tech allowing an aircraft to transition from one type of engine that works at subsonic and supersonic speeds then switch to a functional scram ram jet engine that has no moving parts that allows it to reach hypersonic speeds.
The Thermal management of the SR-71 was one of the chief technical developments that has to be mastered for Sustained Mach 3+ flight. Otherwise, the thing will melt. A quick excursion to that kind of speed is different from sustaining that same speed continuously. That being said, the Thermal Management of the SR-72 must be something out of this World. Maybe Literally. The materials and the ability to keep the airplane and it's occupants within acceptable operating temperatures is key to sustaining Hypersonic Flight. At least half of the really hard Engineering and Materials Development went into Just That.
As you go higher in the atmosphere the air is thinner. The technical challenge for hypersonic at 80,000 is very different than at sea level where the air is as thick as it gets. That's less friction in the stratosphere, so I wonder what this translates to when considering the logistical support needed for this platform, like in air refueling. That laser weapon system sounds intersting too... There is a report out there... Directed_Energy_Futures_2060_Final29June21_with_clearance_number that talks about this....
@@Oldguy-k3t You misread me then - I'm all for them, it's best to be the best, but I do appreciate the jokes about the cost. Helluva lottta money, but yeah, helluva lotta plane, too.
Two recent developments happened. 1, combined cycle engines which start at stationary with a turbo-fan and transition to hypersonic with a ram jet became possible with modern computational design and additive manufacturing tools. 2. Engineers figured out how to prevent failure of the hypersonic fluid flow inside the ramjet.
Lookup the hyper sonic missile launch aircraft called, Revolver. It's any one of our transport plans refitted with what looks like a hand gun revolver. The hyper sonics slide out the back of the transport then the "revolver" turns fires another. It holds six.
This Aircraft is actually a full scale mockup built by Lockheed Martin for the movie Top gun Maverick. If you look at any of the images and footage about the Darkstar is taken straight from the movie and the darkstar is the name of the aircraft in the movie. The airforce won't build a new recon aircraft because of the Boeing X-37B spaceplane that went into development in 1999 and entered service around 2019. The spaceplane is launched vertically similar to the shuttle but it lands on almost any runway, it's unmanned and has a smaller cargo bay than the shuttle and can carry spy cameras that can images any part of the earth and can stay in orbit as long as needed though the cargo bay is smaller it can still carry multiplepayloads per mission. It's the first orbital aircraft used by the U.S. Space Force and makes any aircraft like the non-existant Darkstar unneeded. The X-37B or its at speeds around mach 20 and at any altitude similar to the international space station so forget surface to air missiles or enemy aircraft, the X-37B is leagues ahead of anything else. Once in orbit it can be guided over any thing that we need to get eyes on and, if it's necessary with a secondary payload can target that area with kinetic energy weapons that can't be stopped as the weapon would be hitting the target at around mach 10, so no explosives necessary.
Actually the sr-72 project wasn't even a secret black project when they started it years ago until Russia and China announced their advancements into hypersonic missiles etc and all of a sudden all of the official info about it disappeared and it became a black project. The info in this video is really old and uses almost exclusively Top Gun Maverick renditions of the Darkstar from that movie as if it were the SR-72.
If they’re publicly acknowledging this now, just imagine what they’re already working on for the next gen craft! One of the most moving and powerful stories I’d ever heard about the Blackbird was “the LA Speed Story”. Look that up. Pretty cool!
Back in the early 1980’s I lived in Lancaster California right under the take off pattern of the SR71. It was a beast, loud and beautiful. It was 1960’s technology. The titanium panels had to be a little spaced that leaked fuel until it got hot enough for those panels to expand and seal it. I miss those days. Lockheed had-maybe still does-a Skunkworks gift shop that you could walk into and buy mugs, t-shirts, bumper stickers and such.
Mach 6.. let that sink ik. That is 2058 metres. Per *Second* That means every minute it can cover 123 *Kilometres* per *Minute* That means the SR-72 Darkstar can go from London to Manchester in just *2* *Minutes* It can fly from Washington DC to Moscow, a distance of 7816 kilometres, in 63 *Minutes* That is *INSANE* Absolutely *Mindboggeling*
Yea if we know about it, its basically obsolete They've got something much better. It blows my mind that the sr71 was built in the late fifties! We didn't even have color TV's back then!
Just to touch up on the Wright brothers comment, a more insane way to look at it is 1903 We discovered flight. 1969, America landed on the moon. It took 66 years to reach the stars. It’s incredible what humanity can achieve when we can focus on things other than each other.
I just started to watch your videos, and I enjoyed this first one very much, and your reaction was just fantastic, I live in the US, and your laughter reminded me of when I was seeing new planes come out in the 60s and 70s and thinking the same thought about the first time a plane flew was only 1903 and that seemed even shorter for me, but I enjoyed your enthusiasm and with that wonderful English accent that made it your astonishment sound quite right when you said "mach 6" I always liked the English accent, it's funny because when I was in the service way back in the 60s especially in boot camp everyone picked out my new yaork city accent, so continue the good work and keep the good videos coming, because I'm now one of your subscribers, good luck with your channel. SKULLY Here👍😎
2:00 If you are a royal marine then you should know that if the US declared this as "real" that means they aren't going to start using it in the military now, but that they have been using it for the last several decades. They aren't simply going to announce their latest tech for all to see. They are not a teenage girl on TikTok that thrives off attention. They will use the anonymity of it to their advantage as long as possible. In fact, Id be willing to bet that if they have actually declared this aircraft to the American public and in fact the world, they already have the next level of this aircraft flying and active right now. We wont know about it for another 30+ years. It will just be the source of many UFO/UAP sightings for the next 3+ decades.
Pratt and Whitney is a big company here in Connecticut. Even owns the stadium naming rights for UConn even though they suck at football. Their engines are common in aircraft. Also, the firearms maker cult is headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut. There’s quite a bit of military industrial complex in the state. I think Sikorsky is also here which makes helicopters.
the info from the mach 20 flight was also the dataset used for the hyper velocity drone they launched to test how long they could keep it on the edge of space. The darkstar seems to be using a lot of the tech from the black widow, the competitor to the F22 that never got the funding
sorry, this is not true. i read about the YF-12 (SR-71 in development mode) in magazines back in the 60's and watched habu's take off and land regularly at kadena ab in 74-75.
@@davidlynnholtzclaw3919 Man, wish I was at Norton (First Choice), but I got McGuire, NJ. My other picks were Travis, and Kessler. I had no East coast locations at all, so I was like, yeah see why you call it a 'Dream Sheet".
Pratt & whitney was started in 1925. By 1944 they had built and were used in WWII alone. So they've been around awhile with over 900,000 engines in service today!
Yes Pratt and Whitney have been involved in a lot of projects. The F-35 Lightning II uses the F135 engine, the F-22 Raptor uses the F119, the F-15 and F-16 use the F100 family, the C-17 Globemaster III uses the F117, and the KC-46A Pegasus uses the PW4062/F139. Commercial aircraft The Airbus A320neo family uses the PW1100G engine, the Airbus A220 uses the PW1500G, and the Embraer E2 Family uses the PW1900G. The Airbus A300-600 and Airbus A310-300 use the PW4000 engine, as do the Boeing 747-400, Boeing Dreamlifter, Boeing 767-200/-300/-400, and McDonnell Douglas MD-11. The V2500 engine is used in the A320ceo family, MD-90, and C-390. Business aircraft The Bombardier Learjet Model 60 uses the PW305A, the Gulfstream G200 uses the PW306A, the Dornier 328JET uses the PW306B, the Cessna Citation Sovereign and Cessna Citation Sovereign+ use the PW306C, the Cessna Citation Latitude uses the PW306D1, the Dassault Falcon 7X uses the PW307A, the Dassault Falcon 8X uses the PW307D, the Hawker 4000 uses the PW308A, and the Dassault Falcon 2000EX/DX uses the PW308C. Military Engines - Pratt & Whitney Pratt & Whitney's military engines include the F135 engine for the 5th Generation F-35 Lightning II, the F119 for the F-22 Raptor,
From what I've seen from Habitual Linecorsser, the radar can detect them at certain frequencies, but certain engagement scenarios are filtered by the computer. It's a detection vs intercept choice.
They were very open about the SR-72 program from 2013 to 2017 when it went dark. There were extensive media articles on the Combined Cycle engine concept. This information was all from Lockheed and the USAF. Does no one remember?
Mach 6 is six times the speed of sound, which is approximately 3,600 miles per hour (5,795 kilometers per hour). At this speed, an aircraft could travel from London to New York in about an hour.
5:31 Pratt & Whitney is an engine manufacturer that specializes in aerospace. Current USAF planes with Pratt & Whitney engines are F-22, F-35, C-17, B-52, KC-46, some F-15 and some F-16. Boeing, Airbus, Cesna and other smaller civilian aviation companies also use Pratt & Whitney engines. They also were the owner of Rocketdyne which made Rocket engines for spacecraft like the upper stage of the Saturn rocket that got NASA to the moon and the main engines on the Space Shuttle, plus other smaller space rocket.
Just as an FYI, the space shuttle on return interfaced with the atmosphere at around Mach 25, so Mach 20, we have already done... just not for very long in atmosphere, as there is issue with the thermal issues of pressurizing the atmosphere so far that it ignites into plasma... or well... liquid air on fire.
The space shuttle on reentry was doing Over mach 40 in the 80's. That's Mica tiles glowing red with a plasma trail miles long. Basically a belly flopping brick in free fall. It was a sight to behold just in thermo dynamics.
If you do t think so… for example.. What was Cobra Commanders airplane? It came out in 83-84.. it was the SR71… that plane was not reveled until the 90’s and by then was already old. The Aurora was a model plane in the 80’s -90’s and does it not look like the SR72..
I knew a guy that worked at skunk works when I was in high school. That 1999 to 2003. He was telling me about the aurora and dark star projects. Back then they were 2 separate projects with the Aurora being in active service. Now, I cannot rule out he was just lying about those just for fun because I have been obsessed with planes, but jets mostly. I kept asking him to tell me something I don't know. Also, keep this in mind: though a lot of people here are saying the military is 20 years further than what the public knows about, the law states that they can be 40 years ahead. As bull💩 as this sounds, they say it is at least partly due to giving anyone associated with the project time to pass away/or be retired and not have any Intel that would be relevant to any other government. I believe it started because of the JFK assassination and it was a political way to say it's not my problem to deal with any of the fallout regardless of what true answer is given.
Quarter-horse is a concept for engine technology more than anything else. Using a drone makes sense for prototyping as test pilots often have a high mortality rate.
SR71 looks like it is massive but it's very small. I was at Dulles airport catching a flight on the taxi way saw an SR71 next to a jumbo jet . It was tiny and think it would fit in the hold of it. I believe this was late 80 or 90 . They now have one in the air space museum in Washington DC and it's well worth a visit.
They were testing this at least as early as 2004. I was on my way back from training and sat on the plain next to a Warrant Officer telling me about it. He didn't have direct knowledge, but claimed these specs, and said he saw it on the horizon moving extremely fast. He then went and talked to one of his guys and it supposedly went from chicago to phoenix, did a 500m slowdown/u-turn, and back in under an hour. No one believed him and no one believed me.
Chicago to Phoenix and back in an hour. That’s ridiculously fast. Think of that view, the green-blue of the Great Lakes area and the pink orange and white from the Rockies and into the desert. Awesome
you should know that when the military says "coming soon" they mean "in use now but we arn't telling" so im betting some 6th gen air-crafts are in limited use somewhere and a good deal of gen6 tech is getting retro fitted to old aircraft. i was in pre-rotc (middle school) in early 80's and i saw a thing about lasers on tanks (bad security for that officer FYI) - the gulf war "debuted" lasers on tanks to the world - about 7 years after i as a 14yr heard about them
far as we know 6th gen to replace the raptor has not happened, in fact they decided to upgrade the raptors into super raptors meaning ngad is probably struggling to some degree, however if we talk about for bombers the b21 is 6th gen and the first.
Pratt & Whitney is the oldest and one of the largest jet engine manufacturers in the world. My father was the Senior Vice President of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft and the President of the China Division. I’ve been on that corporate jet ride from their private airport in East Hartford, CT to their other airport in West Palm Beach, FLA many times. There was always some VERY interesting conversations happening at home where us kids simply couldn’t resist quietly sticking our ear up against dads home office door, lol. 👍🏻😎👍🏻
I had a friend, Major General John Anderson , who was in charge of the Air National Guard of Massachusetts, told me that when you hear of something possibly flying, that it is already out there flying around. An example was the F-117 which was already being used by the Air Force for a few years before it was acknowledged by the gov"t. And Pratt and Whitney is out of Hartford, Connecticut.....they make great engines ! The SR-71 was designed by Kelly Johnson in the late 50"s......way ahead of his time.
P&W made oodles of radial engines. F4U Corsair packed an R2800 packing 2000HP. I've had the pleasure/displeasure of working on them. Also worked on Allison T56 turboprops. Night and day mate!
You look at how advanced the sr-71 was in the 60's. We've only had leaps and bounds in technological advancements since then. We probably have a whole generation of jet above the SR-72 already.
Enjoyed your post , as a kid I lived on Beale AFB when the SR 71 was assigned there, we were told as children not to take pictures of it when it flew over or to not speak of it , i fill privileged as a child to grow up on a base that had a aircraft like this, my classmates I went on family outing with father was a Black Bird piolet. Kelly Johnson that help design the Black Bird, was asked a question about area 51,and he said we now have the technology to take ET home. Enjoyed your post, I'm from the USA and appreciate your country being a Allie. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
How fast to avoid radar is not a logical question. Radar moves at that speed of light, so that isn't the question. How far is a better question, but also not relevant here. Radar returns follow the inverse square law for power / signal drop-off, but we have radars that watch satellites in geo-synchonous orbit (~22k miles / ~36k km) so we can "see" things very far above where any plane or crewed spacecraft can fly. Singal size and strength is a factor, but here with the "you-can't-catch-me" situation, that is probably only a secondary design concern.
I'mma be real, the SR-72 project wasn't a secret for a time, it was even publicly out there on lockheed's internet main page, but then at some point, I think when China said they were developing hypersonic missiles, the entire thing got wiped from the internet (to the best of their ability at least) It's only a secret to anyone that didn't pay attention before
From Pratt & Whitney's website. In 1925, the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company was founded by Frederick B. Rentschler, pioneer of the air-cooled radial engine design which enabled unprecedented power-to-weight ratio. Its first engine, the R-1340 Wasp engine, transformed military and commercial aviation and is still in use today.
I wonder what type of advanced aircraft are already operational today, but hidden under the veil of secrecy. I remember, several hangers across the runway from where normal aircraft hangars were located back in 1972. The location was Yokota Air Base, Japan. There was an unusual level of security in that area, and those hangars were never open during the daytime. I understood that they were used to support covert operations and that black aircraft were inside them. Those aircraft would only take off and land during hours of darkness. I'm suspecting that the black aircraft were most likely the SR 71 blackbird.
The SR71 was limited not by thrust, but by cooling. When the cooling air available is at 800°F, your turbine vanes, leading edges, and nose are prone to melt at Mach 3.4. At mach 6, just using your fuel for coolant can't protect even Titanium; you'd have to build large parts of the wings/nose/turbines out of ceramics
SR71's official Cruise Speed was Mach 3.2, but engineers at Skunk Works estimated it was more along the estimate of 3.5 Cruise Speed. The Top Speed is still uncertain due to capabilities being variable due to altitude, atmospheric temperature, pressure, and vapor. Mach 3.2 was the ground speed, but at 78,000 feet, the limits were increased to a possibility of nearly Mach 4, Only being limited by design of temperature dissipation, intake pressure regulation by the J58's inlet spike, and the technology available in 1958 to design the J58 engine (which was originally designed for a Naval flying boat...) So, imagine how different it would have all been if they used the big brother engine J91.
I was born,raised in a small town palmdale California we drive past skunk works , Lockheed Martin everyday lol so normally we see all types of black aircraft hear big bangs that shake the houses like sonic booms etc..
We also got the Manta, x44, and others not even brought up. Speeds fasteer then the space shuttle and ( close to) the speed of light. Plus, some Are cloaked for radar and naked eye.
In 1992 I got to see the space shuttle, and it was glowing as it was coming back into the atmosphere. They had a storm back in Florida at cape Canaveral so they brought it back to Edward's airforce base and heres the kicker! It only took five minutes to get from Alaska to Southern California! Wrap your head around that kind of speed! 😉
Aurora was just the long running test mule for the production Darkstar/SR71 replacement. Also, *the SR71 had a HIGH DEFINITION CAMERA.* Think about that for a second. The US military had HD cameras and imaging since at least the mid seventies, a solid 20 years before it would hit the mainstream. My dad is ex-military and always told me that our military is anywhere between 20-30 years ahead technologically, than the current timeframe. Based on that assessment i definitely believe it.
When they admit to black projects, they're usually at least 25 years old already and there are more new stuff hidden in the shadows.
The F117 was at least 11 years old when it was introduced to the public, my dad used to work on it for several years before it was released .
Yes, reference the TR3B.
@@john091077 i saw one in 2014 it looked like a dorito
@@john091077I saw this on an automobile license plate and failed to get the driver's attention.99% of our population doesn't know shit.
GOD DAMNIT! I was gonna say that lmao. They only admit to stuff if they have something waaay better already out and about. The old dot gov is a sneaky snake. pretty cool aircraft either way. I wanna see what they are still hiding though.
Remember that the former head of Skunk Works stated; "we have the technology to take E.T. home". If we know about it, that means they are 20 years ahead.
he said take your wildest imagination of technology and add 100 years to that, we now have the technology to take E.T. home but it would take an act of god to use it for good not war, was said in the early 90s, the tech now is unbelievable
Well at least when I fart I can tell people that smell was inspired by Skunkworks.
That would be Ben Rich. It was at the end of some speech I think he was giving to graduating MIT students... that was in the 70's. Considering that in 1965 we had a working Cold Fusion reaction that went for over 30 seconds (see Dark Journalist video on it a week or two ago here on YT, with guest Dr Joseph Farrel) ; demonstrated by Filo Pharnsworth of ITT, (and used power sources that you can get from just plugging it into the regular wall outlet), and then immediately went dark and all material "disappeared" and discredited by ITT, later to have a showcase video promotional ad in the early 2000's by, Lockheed Martin, showing a Fusion reactor that looked JUST LIKE Filo Pharnsworth' invention and photos/video from 1965, but a little bit larger. Oh the fusion reaactor from Pharnsworth was the size of a softball, and not the monstrous sized hot fusion reactors of today's public companies that are using hot plasma techniques like the Tokamac etc, and are only now getting fusion reactions that last a couple minutes now. So yeah, you can bet Lockkheed and company has this stuff very well advanced out now; amd this Darkstar you can be certain is just the kindergarten show model for the general public to oooh and awwwe over.
Indeed.
The late, great Kelly Johnson of Lockheed's skunk works of U-2 and SR-71 fame. One of a kind who did not suffer fools.
Pratt & Whitney has been making airplanes engines since the 1920s. They provided the engines for many WWII era planes (F6F Hellcat, F4U Corsair, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-61 Black Widow, etc.) as well as many modern fighters (F-35 Lightning II, F-15 Eagle, F-16, F-22 Raptor, EA6B Prowler, F-117 Night Hawk, C-17 Globemaster III, E-3 AWACS, etc.). They are (and have been) one of the most premier aircraft engine manufacturers in the world. What aircraft engine manufacturers HAVE you heard of?😳 BTW, "Dark Star" reminds me of a song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.😉 Mach 6 = 4603.614 mph OR 1.2 miles per second (I think 🤔).
Yeah those were some of the best aircraft we had over the years.
I was tring to figure out how make a similar coment about not knowing who Pratt and Whitney was but was unable to say it without an undertone of (You dumb ass!). Upps! I guess I said it aftr all!
This is way more complete than my answer lol, great one.
“Who is this Pratt and Whitney?”, says the guy who has been living under a rock.
Pratt & Whitney is a huge defense contractor.
A former F117 pilot put it very well. "What I'm allowed to talk about today is typically 25 - 40 year old tech". Puts it into perspective!
Yep, imagine the AI they have making all their decisions. They 100% already have sentient AI.
25-40 years ago we don't really have high speed computer! so NO, that's BS
@@mracer8the sr-71 was designed in 1958 and was built and ready in the early 60s. The f117 was designed in the 70s and flown in the 80sand used in the 90s . Their farther ahead than u could imagine
Dude, Pratt & Whitney is an aircraft legend since the 1930s. It's probably the best aircraft engine maker on the planet!
Yupp! They're the engine manufacturers for all the top air craft of the US
And don't forget lawnmowers and boat motors
Yeah, that was funny when he said he had never heard of that company and he has done several videos on aircraft. Yeah, been in LOTS of military aircraft. Just like Rolls Royce mate.
Not probably they are the best!
Rolls Royce sorry is the best 😂
The words you were trying to think of at 3:39 is probably Reverse Engineering
Going the speed of "Mach fuck" is consistently being given a new meaning by the US military.
your welcome
to put it into perspective, escape velocity is Mach 33, or about 11.2 km/s.... so yea its very real, astronauts do it all the time XD
Just like "Military Intelligence" - it's another oxymoron.
I don't know how they're going to overcome Atmospheric friction..
Even the SR71 would get oven hot from air friction.
I like to say Mach Jesus, to swear low key haha.
Never heard of Pratt & Whitney?
Pratt & Whitney's military engines include the F135 engine for the 5th Generation F-35 Lightning II, the F119 for the F-22 Raptor, the F100 family that powers the F-15 and F-16, the F117 for the C-17 Globemaster III, the TF33 powering AWACS, B-52, as well as the PW4062/F139 for the KC-46A Pegasus.
“People would disintegrate driving 30 mph”
Horses: am I a joke to you?
This gave me a good laugh.
@@SolSilveriusI second!
👏😄👍 Loved it too!!
Meanwhile cheetahs at 75mph recording the horses run 😂
Lol, they only gave the public an estimated top speed of Mach 3.2. The actual top speed is still highly classified. So, if they're advertising Mach 6, you can safely add another 30% to that number.
Top speed of SR72 3.5
@@JoeAlbright-o2v the video stated 6, other articles on the subject have stated 6 as well. The SR-71, was advertised at 3.5, but as I said, actual speed is still classified.
There is an easy way to get a glimpse as to how fast the blackbird was. It flew from Edwards AFB to Andrews AFB in a little over an hour. Google the distance between the 2, the flight has been publicized. Fastest cross country flight.
@@robertkoonce8365 so roughly 2600-2700mph or mach 3.3-3.5
@@yulfine1688can’t remember one of the pilots names. But he claimed he personally hit 3.6-3.7. Which personally I believe as officially I think they dated the highest speed it hit was 3.2 or 3.3…with the fastest flight being 3.3-3.5…so yeah. If they want a cruising speed of Mach 6…my god. Presumably it’d have a higher top speed, for short periods. Though I don’t know how they could squeeze out much more speed without liquid or solid fuel rocket boosters. On board…cause adding more fuel will only get you so far…unless those engines are even more insanely powerful than we know, don’t can super cruise at Mil power, aka, below afterburner, they’d have to be the most efficient and powerful engines ever made, to super cruise etc Mach 6 and still have extra juice on tap for even higher speeds, and possibly after burner of some sort.
@@robertkoonce8365 Plenty of the pilots have openly said they definitely went faster than 3.5
First powered flight: 1903. First man to walk on the moon: 1969. 66 years between those events. Still blows my mind.
In the 1920s we thought the Milky Way was the whole universe.
Will blow your mind even more if you figure out the moon landings are faked
We went from barely lifting off the ground to breaking the sound barrier in less than 50yrs.
Same here brotha. It truly boggles the mind...
We've never left low earth orbit .. by that I mean humans .. machines have left because machines can be made radiation proof people really can't
I know five people who worked inside Area 51. None of them ever saw UFO's but one told me that he saw the B-1 bomber while he was in the USAF (or maybe it was the B-2, I forgot) begin to slow down in mid air to what seemed impossibly slow to keep flying but it continued to slow down until it stopped in mid air and hovered without making a sound. This friend is someone that I would call a brother; for more than one reason. I trust that he'd never lie to me or make up any wild stories.
I'm a veteran also but I was in the US Army and I saw a UFO while in training at Fort Gordon GA. That's a long story but the short version: my sighting lasted less than one second but the impact it had on me has lasted over 25 years. It was directly over our heads and one soldier screamed when he saw it. If he hadn't screamed I'd have probably never seen it because that's the only reason I looked up. And then I got yelled at by our civilian instructor for looking at it.
I worked for the fed gov for a while and i never saw a ufo or anything but I have seen lots of hidden anti air and other silos all over the place where you would never think they were hidden. our government really is the top dog no matter what everyone thinks.
i believe in you brother,if one country that can develop super high tech would be US,human capable to create that kind of peace of art,but it also feels unreal so "they" make it as "extraterestial vehicle" that only alien can created it,when in reality WE are that alien,well after all US spends $800 billion dollar per year in military..so with all the money and resources,its not far fetch to say they been able to create it.
@@popcornmovietrailer960 It's a lot more than $800 billion that the US spends on its military. I've heard that it's somewhere around three trillion dollars but it's hard to say because a lot of that is "black budget" projects. The thing that I saw could have been our own technology for all that I know. In that moment I was certain that I was looking at alien technology but honestly it would be even more exciting if it was our own technology because that would mean that somewhere out there are people (humans; born and raised in earth) that are exploring our solar system and possibly the entire universe. If that technology is ours then it means that humans have most likely already walked on Mars; possibly Europa and other planets and may have visited other star systems.
This is gonna seem really random and out of the blue but I have really weird dreams. I always have. Flying dreams; lucid dreams etc. I have dreams that I'm visiting places that I've never been and there's no way I could have ever been there so there's no reason I should be having dreams about walking on Mars or visiting the Pleiades constellation and discovering a super advanced civilization that's overcome the need for war; overcome the need for physical bodies etc but I had a dream like that. In this dream their planet looked a lot like earth. They had streets and buildings that you could easily mistake for being earth except that most of their planet was beautiful woods; forest; jungles etc. The cities weren't huge but for some reason I felt completely at home there like I had been there before and there were no people that I could SEE - not a single one, but I *felt* them. It was a crazy feeling - the exact opposite of loneliness if there is such a thing and despite the lack of people. I felt like this entire civilization was present with me all at once but nonphysical. Like they had overcome the cycle of life and death and even though I was the only person physically on the planet I never felt more loved and alive than I did in that dream. I had a sense that they *could* take on physical form if they chose to because they manufactured their own bodies but they chose to remain nonphysical for a variety of reasons. I remember seeing some sort of weird pool in front of some sort of university or place of learning and it was like a big lake except that the water was perfectly clear and the bottom was mirrored. Like some sort of reflecting pool made specifically for contemplation and there was a small wooden bridge that crossed over it. At one point I was flying toward a building going at insane speeds like I was about to crash into it and then I made an instantaneous 90 degree change in direct immediately before I almost slammed into this building and was flying straight up the length of the building with my feet almost touching it and then I remember being told that I wasn't supposed to be there and that's where the dream ended. It's hard to describe but it was one of those kinds of dreams that is so beautiful and perfect that you never want to leave - the kind of dream that you wake up from with tears in your eyes after you open them and look around at the world you live in. But I also had a strong sense that the world I witnessed in this dream - a world without war; hunger; pollution; death and worst of all - politicians... was possible here on earth if we don't destroy ourselves first. I realize that it was just a dream but it gave me hope for humanity because in this dream I had the feeling that I had been in the presence of God except God (our creator) wasn't some invisible mysterious force that we can't see - it was an entire civilization of people that are like us but more advanced; they created us from their own DNA and in a sense we're related to them like family and they love us more than we could ever imagine. I had this dream years ago and it still almost brings me to tears remembering it.
@@popcornmovietrailer960 Lol! I just noticed your screen name immediately after I hit "send". I'm a professional working actor and a screenwriter as well. Trained at Playhouse West as an actor and trained at the Writers Guild Foundation in Hollywood. I'm trying to figure out a way to write this "dream" that I had into one of my screenplays because it had such a strong impact on me; I wish there was some way that I could give this experience and the ideas that came along with it to other people. What better way to do that than through story telling / screenwriting / movie making? 🍿
So I'm adding it towards the end of a time travel story that I started developing while I was still in training at the Writers Guild Foundation. I wish I could tell you more about this story but it's still a work in progress and I haven't gotten it registered yet with the Writers Guild. When I was still in training we did a lot of practice pitches with real studio executives and development executives from major agencies like Creative Artists Agency; Sony Pictures; DreamWorks; Mission Entertainment & several others. I used this particular time travel story as my practice pitch - this was just for PRACTICE BTW... I wasn't even trying to sell the story yet or land a literary manager but at the end of one of those pitches I was handed a business card by a literary manager who told me to call her once the screenplay is complete. But one of the characters in the story is based on Richard Feynman so I decided to write a screenplay about his life first; complete it; finish the time travel story and then I'll have two different screenplays to pitch / sell at the same time. Most literary managers aren't interested in representing a "one hit wonder" who only had one single story because they want to make money from you. They're more interested in representing someone who is a prolific writer that's constantly writing and has more than just one story to tell. I have about thirteen different screenplays in progress right now but the number one priority is the Richard Feynman story because he is my idol; I honestly think he's the most interesting person that ever lived (just *my* opinion). The character in the time travel story isn't actually Richard Feynman; it's a fictional story but the character has his intellect and personality so I figured it would be a good idea to write his actual story first just to sort of nail down this fictional character that's based on him.
Feynman BTW didn't believe in aliens or UFO's in fact if you watch his lectures (which are all available on UA-cam) somebody once asked him his thoughts on UFO's and he said that he believes that "these stories about UFO's are more likely due to the irrational characteristics of human intelligence than the rational efforts of nonhuman intelligence. He was hilarious and entertaining, he made science fun and easy to learn because he was able to explain complex things using simple language that anybody could understand. His lectures are like ASMR for me - I literally listen to his lectures as I'm drifting off to sleep every single night and my favorite one is "Los Alamos From Below". I'm still pissed that Nolan made a movie about Oppenheimer instead of Feynman. Oppenheimer was a boring person; there's no reason to make a movie about him. Richard Feynman was a prankster and a troublemaker. He was a great teacher and story teller who was always challenging the authorities and pissing people off. NASA didn't like him one bit because he embarrassed them after the challenger disaster; during a live press conference where he famously pulled a piece of rubber from the Shuttle O rings out of his pocket and dropped it into a glass of ice water while talking for a minute and then pulled it out to demonstrate that the rubber O rings became brittle at low temperatures - NASA had been trying to sweep this fact under the carpet and he embarrassed them on national television.
Ive seen 4 at one time with 3 others and watched them wirh large nikon binoculars for minuets
13:31 What’s more impressive is going from man’s first flight to landing on the moon in 66 years - well within one lifetime.
Imagine being age 10 and seeing the first powered flight, then watching the moon landing at age 76.
Nuts.
The America that did that in 66 years is the America we need today.
Famous quote from an SR-71 pilot
“Though I fly through the valley of death, I fear no evil, for I am at 80,000 feet and climbing”
And you have to think , when they originally developed the SR-71 they didn't have computers, they did it all with hundreds of engineers using slide rulers, that makes it even more astonishing.
Something similar, how special effects in movies have changed.
Kelly Johnson was the lead on making the SR71 he was the lead on all the i2 spy plane working at Skunkwprks . It was peritoneal the year I was born 1959 Kelly was a genius in Airplane Egineering
I had never thought about that, it's just impressive.
They had computers. They weren't what we have today, but they were able to do computation faster than humans.
@johndomoe3735 but they still didn't trust them, so everything was double-checked by live engineers, I have seen old declassified photographs of the engineering dept. literally 50 to 60 desks of engineers verifying calculations.
Yes, Pratt & Whitney is a very common make of aircraft engines. The Cessna 206/207, many Beechcraft, the ATR-72, Dehaviland Dash8, and iterations of the 747 (just to name a few) all use Pratt & Whitney engines.
The B-52 does as well
I don't know if they still do, but they also made small engines like for lawn mowers.
Not like these…
@@MaxQ2989 please explain?
@@casual_time_machine6536 the J58 axial-flow turbojet could only push the SR-71 to about Mach 3.5 after that complications with engine airflow and compression “maxed” out. At that speed however, there is enough air flow (air speed thru the engine) to power a “ram jet” up through hypersonic speeds. That was not truly possible until recently. Rockets exceeded Mach 5 but can’t be reused. The SR-72 and several others apparently have mastered this dual stage engine tech and its engineering challenges resulting in a truely reusable and landable aircraft.
it’s kinda funny how aircraft’s getting to a point where it doesn’t need to be a secret because no foreign craft can match its speed, power and capabilities
It would still be good to be kept secret purely based on the fact you can implement it in a war without any enemies knowing what is about to hit them and giving them no time for counter measures
They already have something better. That's why they let it out.
whatever specs they release to the public will be misleading , or overstated , or understated or missing context etc etc - the mil knows how to keep it's mouth shut when it comes to the cutting edge stuff.
I think it's scary. When they stop hiding our capabilities, it starts to look like we're compensating
@@nickcarnevalino7462 for america often its understated unlike russia or china...
I still can't get over how brilliant people were back then. The SR-71 was built in the 1960's. Computers were still being developed at that time. This means the people who designed the SR-71 relied on protractors and slide rulers.
Oh and you Royal Marines had your own thing. You guys created the first hovering jet called the Harrier. A bit I saw on it was the pilots went through so much simulation training that when they used them in combat they downed roughly 10 enemy craft per one Harrier lost I think.
The Lightning was an amazing aircraft too.
English Electric or P38 Lockheed?
Royal Marines certainly didn't create the harrier 😂 they fuck all to with it, it the sea harrier came after the first gen hawker siddeley harrier
I should have read your comment before I said draft tables and slide rules. I don't talk much about that aircraft because of what we were doing when we retired it, but the capabilities were mind blowing 34 years ago.
They are Not telling you about the Mach 10+ Aircraft!
I was camping in Nevada 6 years ago, it was night and very dark. A pair of jets started flying to where we could hear them and see their lights when they flew over. Obviously they knew we were there, they did a really cool low fly over that turned into a straight up flight path. This jet went from maybe 500 feet, to looking like a star and not able to be heard incredibly quick, then gone. The thing I noticed that surprised me was you couldn't hear it until it was basically right on top of you, then once it passed you it was basically impossible to hear as well.
They call that reverse engineering 3:56
“What commercial uses are there for this?!”
Overnight shipping on orders placed at 11:59 PM
More like military orders to drop ordinance.
SpaceX starship can Deliver cargo GLOBALLY in just 25 minutes and is Completely reuseable.
The B21 is already a “6th gen” aircraft and is already flying. I think you will see and hear even more about new 6th gen aircraft as we get into 2030 and beyond.
6th gen aircraft need to be able to command and control support drones. Wich that aircraft cannot. Generation classification is far more than just "the next aircraft" to come out in a certain line.
Watch "Fighter Jet Classifications | Aerospace Engineer Explains" by Aviation Austin, for a great info dump. 😁👍
@@lordjeremyhirsch7009every country has a different definition of what 6th gen actually is… is what your saying something everyone has finally come together to agree on???
@dr.bright3081 People can't even agree on how many genders there are anymore... I think what everyone can agree on, is the "generations" represent a massive increase in capabilities and tech. Not some small step. 😁👍
Maybe they should achieve 5th Gen before any other countries start talking about 6th gen.
3:20 "reverse-engineering" is the term you're looking for I think.
Pratt & Whitney's military engines include the F135 engine for the 5th Generation F-35 Lightning II, the F119 for the F-22 Raptor, the F100 family that powers the F-15 and F-16, the F117 for the C-17 Globemaster III, the TF33 powering AWACS, B-52, as well as the PW4062/F139 for the KC-46A Pegasus
They’ve made military aircraft engines since 1925
I love Antique roadshow.
Such a great concept to fall in love with history.
You must have forgotten. In the Fat Electrician video about the F-15 Eagle , Nic had mentioned that the F-15 is powered by Pratt and Whitney engines.
@@robwalls6057 Pratt and Whitney have been powering aircraft for almost 100 years. The B17, B29, the F4 wildcats, the F4F Hellcats, the amF4u Corsair s, and P47 Thunderbolts were all powered by Pratt and Whitney radial wasp engines.
P&W have been making military engines for many decades.
The SR-71 also used Pratt and Whitney engines.
That's the same plane we used to shoot a satellite in space with lmfao.
Pratt engines power a TON of aircraft. From literal crop dusters to this thing.
One of my customers develops jet parts for both Pratt & Whitney and Space X. They are building sections of the scramjets to be used in other craft downwind of the Darkstar. 😅
Sandbox has an in depth video about Hermes where he interviews and tours the factory where its being made and developed. And we already have 6th gen aircraft probably in service with the B21 raider bomber which is 6th gen and already flying.
My dad worked at that Patt and Whitney in Florida for most of my childhood. They make engines for tons of military, commercial planes and some rockets.
Regeneratively cooled composites allow for hypersonic flights without ablative surface cooling btw. Pump the fuel through the aircraft's skin to pressurize it and sink heat from the hypersonic heated surfaces. Then use the pressure to inject into the combustion cycle.
The SR72 is actually meant to be a hypersonic airframe, meaning it is able to reach speeds of Mach 10. Not just Mach 6. This is due to the new tech allowing an aircraft to transition from one type of engine that works at subsonic and supersonic speeds then switch to a functional scram ram jet engine that has no moving parts that allows it to reach hypersonic speeds.
The Blackbird also has a set of 2 engines for the higher speeds.
The Thermal management of the SR-71 was one of the chief technical developments that has to be mastered for Sustained Mach 3+ flight. Otherwise, the thing will melt. A quick excursion to that kind of speed is different from sustaining that same speed continuously. That being said, the Thermal Management of the SR-72 must be something out of this World. Maybe Literally. The materials and the ability to keep the airplane and it's occupants within acceptable operating temperatures is key to sustaining Hypersonic Flight. At least half of the really hard Engineering and Materials Development went into Just That.
As you go higher in the atmosphere the air is thinner. The technical challenge for hypersonic at 80,000 is very different than at sea level where the air is as thick as it gets. That's less friction in the stratosphere, so I wonder what this translates to when considering the logistical support needed for this platform, like in air refueling. That laser weapon system sounds intersting too... There is a report out there... Directed_Energy_Futures_2060_Final29June21_with_clearance_number that talks about this....
wow!!!!
Re: 2 Billion dollars - yeah, we called it "Debt From Above" back when it was in development!
Yeah, totally ginormus waste of money! Just like b1 &b2. Just build more/cheap drones.
@@Oldguy-k3t You misread me then - I'm all for them, it's best to be the best, but I do appreciate the jokes about the cost. Helluva lottta money, but yeah, helluva lotta plane, too.
Two recent developments happened. 1, combined cycle engines which start at stationary with a turbo-fan and transition to hypersonic with a ram jet became possible with modern computational design and additive manufacturing tools. 2. Engineers figured out how to prevent failure of the hypersonic fluid flow inside the ramjet.
Lookup the hyper sonic missile launch aircraft called, Revolver. It's any one of our transport plans refitted with what looks like a hand gun revolver. The hyper sonics slide out the back of the transport then the "revolver" turns fires another. It holds six.
There is a skunk on the ‘Darkstar’ in Maverick… they were dropping clues like crazy
This Aircraft is actually a full scale mockup built by Lockheed Martin for the movie Top gun Maverick. If you look at any of the images and footage about the Darkstar is taken straight from the movie and the darkstar is the name of the aircraft in the movie.
The airforce won't build a new recon aircraft because of the Boeing X-37B spaceplane that went into development in 1999 and entered service around 2019. The spaceplane is launched vertically similar to the shuttle but it lands on almost any runway, it's unmanned and has a smaller cargo bay than the shuttle and can carry spy cameras that can images any part of the earth and can stay in orbit as long as needed though the cargo bay is smaller it can still carry multiplepayloads per mission. It's the first orbital aircraft used by the U.S. Space Force and makes any aircraft like the non-existant Darkstar unneeded. The X-37B or its at speeds around mach 20 and at any altitude similar to the international space station so forget surface to air missiles or enemy aircraft, the X-37B is leagues ahead of anything else. Once in orbit it can be guided over any thing that we need to get eyes on and, if it's necessary with a secondary payload can target that area with kinetic energy weapons that can't be stopped as the weapon would be hitting the target at around mach 10, so no explosives necessary.
TM 3:45 - reverse engineering
Was just going to write that.
Me too
They're admitting to the SR-72's reality is a tell. They're already working on it's replacement.
Actually the sr-72 project wasn't even a secret black project when they started it years ago until Russia and China announced their advancements into hypersonic missiles etc and all of a sudden all of the official info about it disappeared and it became a black project. The info in this video is really old and uses almost exclusively Top Gun Maverick renditions of the Darkstar from that movie as if it were the SR-72.
Yes, but when they say that they have this, just think what they have that they are not telling us!
If they’re publicly acknowledging this now, just imagine what they’re already working on for the next gen craft! One of the most moving and powerful stories I’d ever heard about the Blackbird was “the LA Speed Story”. Look that up. Pretty cool!
Back in the early 1980’s I lived in Lancaster California right under the take off pattern of the SR71. It was a beast, loud and beautiful.
It was 1960’s technology. The titanium panels had to be a little spaced that leaked fuel until it got hot enough for those panels to expand and seal it.
I miss those days.
Lockheed had-maybe still does-a Skunkworks gift shop that you could walk into and buy mugs, t-shirts, bumper stickers and such.
Mach 6.. let that sink ik. That is 2058 metres. Per *Second*
That means every minute it can cover 123 *Kilometres* per *Minute*
That means the SR-72 Darkstar can go from London to Manchester in just *2* *Minutes*
It can fly from Washington DC to Moscow, a distance of 7816 kilometres, in 63 *Minutes*
That is *INSANE* Absolutely *Mindboggeling*
I'm Sure it would have to build up and slow down too. So may take a while longer.
@ 2:07 if they just declared this as a real aircraft in the arsenal just think what they have in the backrooms that have not been acknowledged 😮
Yea if we know about it, its basically obsolete They've got something much better. It blows my mind that the sr71 was built in the late fifties! We didn't even have color TV's back then!
Just to touch up on the Wright brothers comment, a more insane way to look at it is 1903 We discovered flight. 1969, America landed on the moon. It took 66 years to reach the stars. It’s incredible what humanity can achieve when we can focus on things other than each other.
We have got as far BECAUSE we have been so focused on each other. War is the mother of invention.
@@Josiecel war is mother of invention because it's what we spend the most money on.
Want to really be tripped out?
Look up how many patents have been hidden over the last 60 years.
@free2befree wouldn't want to cheap out on protecting the nation right?
@@Josiecel trillions of dollars go missing on the regular... we spent enough.
Working out how something works from a captured machine is called "Reverse Engineering".
I just started to watch your videos, and I enjoyed this first one very much, and your reaction was just fantastic, I live in the US, and your laughter reminded me of when I was seeing new planes come out in the 60s and 70s and thinking the same thought about the first time a plane flew was only 1903 and that seemed even shorter for me, but I enjoyed your enthusiasm and with that wonderful English accent that made it your astonishment sound quite right when you said "mach 6" I always liked the English accent, it's funny because when I was in the service way back in the 60s especially in boot camp everyone picked out my new yaork city accent, so continue the good work and keep the good videos coming, because I'm now one of your subscribers, good luck with your channel. SKULLY Here👍😎
2:00 If you are a royal marine then you should know that if the US declared this as "real" that means they aren't going to start using it in the military now, but that they have been using it for the last several decades. They aren't simply going to announce their latest tech for all to see. They are not a teenage girl on TikTok that thrives off attention. They will use the anonymity of it to their advantage as long as possible. In fact, Id be willing to bet that if they have actually declared this aircraft to the American public and in fact the world, they already have the next level of this aircraft flying and active right now. We wont know about it for another 30+ years. It will just be the source of many UFO/UAP sightings for the next 3+ decades.
@3:25, Hangar 18
Pratt & Whitney has been a giant of American aviation engine design and manufacture for damn near 100 years
The SR series. Jet planes so awesome and epic looking that the predecessor; the SR-71 Blackbird, got adopted by the X-Men.
And by George Lucas for the silver ship in one of the prequels.
@@vladyvhv9579 I think the silver ship looked more like the Frissbee the F-19 fake fighter of the 1980s and Tom Clancy's book
Pratt and Whitney is a big company here in Connecticut. Even owns the stadium naming rights for UConn even though they suck at football. Their engines are common in aircraft. Also, the firearms maker cult is headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut. There’s quite a bit of military industrial complex in the state. I think Sikorsky is also here which makes helicopters.
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Auto correct got you fellow nutmegger! We also invented nuclear submarines. Just to throw that out there.
This was not something leaked by accident they literally showed the prototype on topgun maverick. This shit is probably already outdated 😂😂😂
I thought the prototype made for the movie was done so well that Lockheed got interested in it? (Or something like that, I don't remember exactly)
the info from the mach 20 flight was also the dataset used for the hyper velocity drone they launched to test how long they could keep it on the edge of space.
The darkstar seems to be using a lot of the tech from the black widow, the competitor to the F22 that never got the funding
They are probably already in service. The SR-71 flew in Vietnam war but US didn't admit it's existed until mid 80s
sorry, this is not true. i read about the YF-12 (SR-71 in development mode) in magazines back in the 60's and watched habu's take off and land regularly at kadena ab in 74-75.
I was a Load Master on the C-141B, which was powered by Pratt & Whitney engines.
C-141’s my first aircraft I fell in love with at Norton AFB in 1970
@@davidlynnholtzclaw3919 Man, wish I was at Norton (First Choice), but I got McGuire, NJ. My other picks were Travis, and Kessler. I had no East coast locations at all, so I was like, yeah see why you call it a 'Dream Sheet".
Pratt & whitney was started in 1925. By 1944 they had built and were used in WWII alone. So they've been around awhile with over 900,000 engines in service today!
'121 years from powered flight to Mach 6' is less impressive than '66 years from first powered flight to first moon landing' if we're being honest.
Yes Pratt and Whitney have been involved in a lot of projects. The F-35 Lightning II uses the F135 engine, the F-22 Raptor uses the F119, the F-15 and F-16 use the F100 family, the C-17 Globemaster III uses the F117, and the KC-46A Pegasus uses the PW4062/F139.
Commercial aircraft
The Airbus A320neo family uses the PW1100G engine, the Airbus A220 uses the PW1500G, and the Embraer E2 Family uses the PW1900G. The Airbus A300-600 and Airbus A310-300 use the PW4000 engine, as do the Boeing 747-400, Boeing Dreamlifter, Boeing 767-200/-300/-400, and McDonnell Douglas MD-11. The V2500 engine is used in the A320ceo family, MD-90, and C-390.
Business aircraft
The Bombardier Learjet Model 60 uses the PW305A, the Gulfstream G200 uses the PW306A, the Dornier 328JET uses the PW306B, the Cessna Citation Sovereign and Cessna Citation Sovereign+ use the PW306C, the Cessna Citation Latitude uses the PW306D1, the Dassault Falcon 7X uses the PW307A, the Dassault Falcon 8X uses the PW307D, the Hawker 4000 uses the PW308A, and the Dassault Falcon 2000EX/DX uses the PW308C.
Military Engines - Pratt & Whitney
Pratt & Whitney's military engines include the F135 engine for the 5th Generation F-35 Lightning II, the F119 for the F-22 Raptor,
From what I've seen from Habitual Linecorsser, the radar can detect them at certain frequencies, but certain engagement scenarios are filtered by the computer. It's a detection vs intercept choice.
Thats the F 22, and maybe F35, but they can probably jam them when needed.
Bear in mind the Quarter Horse is so named because it is a 1/4 scale proof of concept vehicle, not the full scale plane in mind for commercial use :)
They were very open about the SR-72 program from 2013 to 2017 when it went dark. There were extensive media articles on the Combined Cycle engine concept. This information was all from Lockheed and the USAF. Does no one remember?
I remember that. Tons of articles then suddenly none.
I remember the media reporting about the strange sound and contrail it made in the 90s. Made a pulsing sound. This was all early testing I'm sure.
The Spaceforce! They are already working on the next project if you know about this plane.
Also there are some forms of power projection so advanced they won't move at all. #softwar IYKYK.
Spacecraft probably
LOL Pratt engines are some of the most popular engines. Especially Turbo prop. They are everywhere.
Mach 6 is six times the speed of sound, which is approximately 3,600 miles per hour (5,795 kilometers per hour). At this speed, an aircraft could travel from London to New York in about an hour.
5:31 Pratt & Whitney is an engine manufacturer that specializes in aerospace. Current USAF planes with Pratt & Whitney engines are F-22, F-35, C-17, B-52, KC-46, some F-15 and some F-16. Boeing, Airbus, Cesna and other smaller civilian aviation companies also use Pratt & Whitney engines. They also were the owner of Rocketdyne which made Rocket engines for spacecraft like the upper stage of the Saturn rocket that got NASA to the moon and the main engines on the Space Shuttle, plus other smaller space rocket.
Just as an FYI, the space shuttle on return interfaced with the atmosphere at around Mach 25, so Mach 20, we have already done... just not for very long in atmosphere, as there is issue with the thermal issues of pressurizing the atmosphere so far that it ignites into plasma... or well... liquid air on fire.
I work in aerospace and Pratt and Whitney is a major engine designer/builder. PWA is located in the US and PWA is in Canada.
The space shuttle on reentry was doing Over mach 40 in the 80's. That's Mica tiles glowing red with a plasma trail miles long. Basically a belly flopping brick in free fall. It was a sight to behold just in thermo dynamics.
Pratt and Whitney is famous for their engines.
A cousin worked for P&W for decades in Florida
plot twist!!! They used the beginning of top gun to make the Chinese think that it was just a set
the sr72 was confirmed to be in production and flying by 2025 back in 2018, before the movie ever came out lol
That's a Wikipedia and Google public source. How much unreliable information comes that way? Look at the sources.
That means darkstar is already in production
That means darkstar is already in production
semantics are lame, and so is commenting twice you know what i mean@@1johnnygunn
@1johnnygunn The SR-72 and Darkstar are completely different concepts.
Quarterhorse gonna be crazy. Imagine ordering a package from the korea and it getting to the US that same day, with express shipping.
If you do t think so… for example..
What was Cobra Commanders airplane? It came out in 83-84.. it was the SR71… that plane was not reveled until the 90’s and by then was already old. The Aurora was a model plane in the 80’s -90’s and does it not look like the SR72..
Master Chief: I need a ride; what do you have? Skunk Works: I got a darkstar.
Of course it can get you to orbit, Master Chief.
So, they've finally given an official name to the secret jet known as "The Aurora".
I was watching this and the Aurora was the first thing that came to mind
The Aurora looks more like a Dorito chip right?
right.
The aurora was a boeing project code name
I knew a guy that worked at skunk works when I was in high school. That 1999 to 2003. He was telling me about the aurora and dark star projects. Back then they were 2 separate projects with the Aurora being in active service. Now, I cannot rule out he was just lying about those just for fun because I have been obsessed with planes, but jets mostly. I kept asking him to tell me something I don't know. Also, keep this in mind: though a lot of people here are saying the military is 20 years further than what the public knows about, the law states that they can be 40 years ahead. As bull💩 as this sounds, they say it is at least partly due to giving anyone associated with the project time to pass away/or be retired and not have any Intel that would be relevant to any other government. I believe it started because of the JFK assassination and it was a political way to say it's not my problem to deal with any of the fallout regardless of what true answer is given.
Quarter-horse is a concept for engine technology more than anything else. Using a drone makes sense for prototyping as test pilots often have a high mortality rate.
Yeah…that’s an understatement, especially for aircraft that really push the limits of what’s possible
SR71 looks like it is massive but it's very small. I was at Dulles airport catching a flight on the taxi way saw an SR71 next to a jumbo jet . It was tiny and think it would fit in the hold of it. I believe this was late 80 or 90 . They now have one in the air space museum in Washington DC and it's well worth a visit.
Pratt and Whitney have been building engines for the US Airforce since the beginning of the jet age .
You need to react to Fat Electricians “Most unlucky U.S navy ship.” It’s hilarious!
They were testing this at least as early as 2004. I was on my way back from training and sat on the plain next to a Warrant Officer telling me about it. He didn't have direct knowledge, but claimed these specs, and said he saw it on the horizon moving extremely fast. He then went and talked to one of his guys and it supposedly went from chicago to phoenix, did a 500m slowdown/u-turn, and back in under an hour. No one believed him and no one believed me.
Wow
Chicago to Phoenix and back in an hour. That’s ridiculously fast. Think of that view, the green-blue of the Great Lakes area and the pink orange and white from the Rockies and into the desert. Awesome
you should know that when the military says "coming soon" they mean "in use now but we arn't telling" so im betting some 6th gen air-crafts are in limited use somewhere and a good deal of gen6 tech is getting retro fitted to old aircraft. i was in pre-rotc (middle school) in early 80's and i saw a thing about lasers on tanks (bad security for that officer FYI) - the gulf war "debuted" lasers on tanks to the world - about 7 years after i as a 14yr heard about them
far as we know 6th gen to replace the raptor has not happened, in fact they decided to upgrade the raptors into super raptors meaning ngad is probably struggling to some degree, however if we talk about for bombers the b21 is 6th gen and the first.
Pratt & Whitney is the oldest and one of the largest jet engine manufacturers in the world. My father was the Senior Vice President of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft and the President of the China Division. I’ve been on that corporate jet ride from their private airport in East Hartford, CT to their other airport in West Palm Beach, FLA many times. There was always some VERY interesting conversations happening at home where us kids simply couldn’t resist quietly sticking our ear up against dads home office door, lol. 👍🏻😎👍🏻
The only reason they are confirming it now is bc they have something better already.
Thank you for th great video! Maybe that was the reason we had to wait so long for topgun maverick.....
24:40 - Amazon Deliveries at Mach 5.5
I had a friend, Major General John Anderson , who was in charge of the Air National Guard of Massachusetts, told me that when you hear of something possibly flying, that it is already out there flying around. An example was the F-117 which was already being used by the Air Force for a few years before it was acknowledged by the gov"t. And Pratt and Whitney is out of Hartford, Connecticut.....they make great engines !
The SR-71 was designed by Kelly Johnson in the late 50"s......way ahead of his time.
They are probably letting some info out as counterintelligence so the Chinese and Russians will think twice before they pull any nonsense.
P&W made oodles of radial engines. F4U Corsair packed an R2800 packing 2000HP. I've had the pleasure/displeasure of working on them. Also worked on Allison T56 turboprops. Night and day mate!
You look at how advanced the sr-71 was in the 60's. We've only had leaps and bounds in technological advancements since then. We probably have a whole generation of jet above the SR-72 already.
Enjoyed your post , as a kid I lived on Beale AFB when the SR 71 was assigned there, we were told as children not to take pictures of it when it flew over or to not speak of it , i fill privileged as a child to grow up on a base that had a aircraft like this, my classmates I went on family outing with father was a Black Bird piolet.
Kelly Johnson that help design the Black Bird, was asked a question about area 51,and he said we now have the technology to take ET home. Enjoyed your post, I'm from the USA and appreciate your country being a Allie. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Wasnt kelly Johnson that said that it was ben rich but his words were all twisted.thats not what he meant
My dad had to guard it when it was stationed in England
How fast to avoid radar is not a logical question. Radar moves at that speed of light, so that isn't the question.
How far is a better question, but also not relevant here. Radar returns follow the inverse square law for power / signal drop-off, but we have radars that watch satellites in geo-synchonous orbit (~22k miles / ~36k km) so we can "see" things very far above where any plane or crewed spacecraft can fly. Singal size and strength is a factor, but here with the "you-can't-catch-me" situation, that is probably only a secondary design concern.
How fast to be gone before operators or computers can react to its presence may be a better question.
I'mma be real, the SR-72 project wasn't a secret for a time, it was even publicly out there on lockheed's internet main page, but then at some point, I think when China said they were developing hypersonic missiles, the entire thing got wiped from the internet (to the best of their ability at least) It's only a secret to anyone that didn't pay attention before
From Pratt & Whitney's website.
In 1925, the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company was founded by Frederick B. Rentschler, pioneer of the air-cooled radial engine design which enabled unprecedented power-to-weight ratio. Its first engine, the R-1340 Wasp engine, transformed military and commercial aviation and is still in use today.
I wonder what type of advanced aircraft are already operational today, but hidden under the veil of secrecy. I remember, several hangers across the runway from where normal aircraft hangars were located back in 1972. The location was Yokota Air Base, Japan. There was an unusual level of security in that area, and those hangars were never open during the daytime. I understood that they were used to support covert operations and that black aircraft were inside them. Those aircraft would only take off and land during hours of darkness. I'm suspecting that the black aircraft were most likely the SR 71 blackbird.
You should react to some australian military videos
I find your enthusiasm outstanding, one of my favorite things about your videos, that and the super cool and advanced aircraft and whatnot.
The SR71 was limited not by thrust, but by cooling. When the cooling air available is at 800°F, your turbine vanes, leading edges, and nose are prone to melt at Mach 3.4. At mach 6, just using your fuel for coolant can't protect even Titanium; you'd have to build large parts of the wings/nose/turbines out of ceramics
SR71's official Cruise Speed was Mach 3.2, but engineers at Skunk Works estimated it was more along the estimate of 3.5 Cruise Speed. The Top Speed is still uncertain due to capabilities being variable due to altitude, atmospheric temperature, pressure, and vapor. Mach 3.2 was the ground speed, but at 78,000 feet, the limits were increased to a possibility of nearly Mach 4, Only being limited by design of temperature dissipation, intake pressure regulation by the J58's inlet spike, and the technology available in 1958 to design the J58 engine (which was originally designed for a Naval flying boat...) So, imagine how different it would have all been if they used the big brother engine J91.
The plague mask cockpit windows are an interesting flex. There was that shot of it with Navy and Punisher graphics too. Nice.
I was born,raised in a small town palmdale California we drive past skunk works , Lockheed Martin everyday lol so normally we see all types of black aircraft hear big bangs that shake the houses like sonic booms etc..
We also got the Manta, x44, and others not even brought up.
Speeds fasteer then the space shuttle and ( close to) the speed of light.
Plus, some Are cloaked for radar and naked eye.
In 1992 I got to see the space shuttle, and it was glowing as it was coming back into the atmosphere. They had a storm back in Florida at cape Canaveral so they brought it back to Edward's airforce base and heres the kicker! It only took five minutes to get from Alaska to Southern California! Wrap your head around that kind of speed! 😉
Aurora was just the long running test mule for the production Darkstar/SR71 replacement.
Also, *the SR71 had a HIGH DEFINITION CAMERA.* Think about that for a second. The US military had HD cameras and imaging since at least the mid seventies, a solid 20 years before it would hit the mainstream. My dad is ex-military and always told me that our military is anywhere between 20-30 years ahead technologically, than the current timeframe. Based on that assessment i definitely believe it.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!