@@Trick9174 nah man,fast and straight like an arrow.However now I think about it there was another design that was popular that looked entirely different to the other designs getting banded about that went for speed and distance.This other design (all were copied off friends) looked short and had a broad nose and went for a loopy slow flight.ahh the memories and hours spent.
7 times the speed of sound is a lot for an airplane but it's nothing if you compare it to the speed of the rocket boosters that is flying towar space :D
It's also the fact the main principle changed, first they needed to go further, then higher, then faster, but the moment the anti air missiles made it all more or less useless, (and the general advance of rockets as carriers of nuclear warheads) they went back to fuel economy, better maneuvering and 'stealth'
Well, you might as well ask the Holy Lord himself, as it is rather obvious that Mister Putin believe that he (Putin) plays in the same kind of league.. 😸😸 - 😉😉 - 😸😸 Th. Benjaminsson in Sweden - - - 🇸🇪🇸🇪 - 🇪🇺🇪🇺 - - -
Yes, that is undoubtedly true - but, regarding "Estimated" Top Speed Cabability of a certain Jet Fighter or comparable aircraft is always a mindbuggling work - what can be concidered being absolutely uncompromisingly correct in all imaginable situations? Th. Benjaminsson - Sweden * 🇸🇪 * 🇸🇪 *
Fun how the Blackbird was actually designed to leak fuel like a sieve while on the ground, and had to actively be fueled right up till takeoff. To keep the all-metal construction from tearing itself apart mid-flight, it was built with loose tolerances so that the heat of high speed flight would cause the metal parts to expand and seal themselves back up. They actually had to refuel midair right after takeoff because they used lightweight landing gear to save weight that couldn't handle a full fuel load. They had to make sure everything was operating smoothly after takeoff before they refueled because it wouldn't survive landing with a full load.
The funny thing is, when it comes to combat, aircraft almost NEVER go supersonic. That's why the newest, most expensive fighters are actually slower than those from the 70's. Studies were done on battles during the Korean war and 0% of combat situations ever were done above mach 1. Even getting to and from fights high speed was rarely used because it destroyed fuel consumption.
The real threat for combat aircraft is ground AA. Even if all in flight combat isn't above Mach 1, having the ability to out maneuver and outrun ground to air missiles is a valuable ability in combat aircraft
Bruh the study was from Vietnam showing that F-4s fly mostly subsonic and sometimes reach Mach 1.2 during combat. There was no supersonic jets in Korea
there were no supersonic jet fighters during the korean war... aircraft getting slower isn't because reaching mach 2 is useless, but there's more of a focus on ensuring aircraft can "supercruise" aka reach supersonic speeds without the use of afterburners. reaching mach 1.5 without afterburners is a lot more useful than mach 2 with afterburners
I believe the ability to turn a tight circle is the biggest advantage in a dogfight which is why fighters have vectored thrust now. The Japanese zero was a good example of this. British and American pilots were trained not to get into these types of maneuvers with a zero because the zero would always end up behind them.
@@texasforever7887 Here's the thing though the Valkyrie didn't see past the test stage the SR-71 was a aircraft that actually saw flight time past the test trials
The SR-71's true top speed was and still is classified at mach 3.2+. Remember the airstrike on Libya in 86? The pilots exceeded mach 3.2 when some SAM's were fired at it. I remember one saying they were approaching mach 4 when they throttled back. I was stationed at The Blue Cube at the Satellite control facility in Sunnyvale, Ca.at that time and we were in contact with JCS and HQ USAF during that mission. Can't hit it if you can't see or catch it.
Idolized the SR-71 when I was a kid. I built many jet models and would hang them from my bedroom ceiling. The SR was one of my favorites as well as the F-4 and F-14. Of course Top Gun is still the best movie ever made.
@@Otpevatel Он уже есть и летал. Только в 1 экземпляре. Просто это лишком секретно, так как сам понимаешь- Гиперзвуковой истребитель..... У нас есть ещё один интересный истребитель "Чёрная чума", о нём тоже почти ничего не известно, только то, что он патрулирует Арктику.
@@earl2688 Going mach 2.2 isn't really "being so far ahead of its time" considering Mig21 was made 3 years before and it could reach a top speed of 2.1 already. Going at mach 0.10 or 0.15 faster isn't that huge of an "innovation".
Imagine what it could’ve been if the Soviet made a higher quality variant of it that doesn’t made out of nickel steel alloy and engines that didn’t last just around 150 hours. Sure as an interceptor it really does not need high maneuverability but those weight reduction could’ve pushed the aircraft even faster.
@@dannyzero692 adding to my last comment, the MIG-31 has since it's introduction 1975 some stuff that where new and introduced today planes like targeting enemy planes for your group or guiding allied misiles shot, a navegation computer (Rita) that talk to the pilot. The mig-31 has been modernized several times with newest radars, engines, sensors, led screen interfaces, with the newest sensors it's the chassis of a 1975 plane that reach match 3.5 and reach altitudes of 123500feet. Search mustard UA-cam channel and his video about the MiG-25, at the end he talks about the mig-31
@@internetisinteresting7720 The 25 was an interceptor as well, and was official until the 31 took its place. The engines used were R-15-300s, which were limited use, missile engines, rather than dedicated jet engines. And yes, the 25 also had low maneuverability due to the heavy, structural wings and heavy material choice. The 31 corrected a lot of these issues
Amazing that after all these years, the X-15 still rules supreme... Above that, only unmanned. Missiles should've not been included in this video, not exactly "aircraft", and they only fly once... But since we include suborbital vehicles we should include the Space Shuttle (Mach 28) ate the top of the list, and it is a crewed aircraft.
Notably, you missed the North American A/RA-5 in your list of military aircraft capable of Mach 2.0+ speed at 40,000 feet. On 13 December 1960, an A3J variant set the world altitude record of 91,450.8 feet (27,874.2 m), carrying a 1000 kilogram payload. According to Wikipedia and other sources, the crew, Navy Cmdr. Leroy Heath, pilot, and Lt. Larry Monroe, navigator/bombardier, accelerated the Vigilante to Mach 2.1 and then flew upward in a ballistic trajectory until the engines flamed out. At the top of the arc it rolled on its back and nosed down. Heath righted the aircraft and restarted the engines. They landed safely.
People don't realize how fast the F14 Tomcats were. In a straight line, they'll blow the doors off of all but a handful of the fastest modern jets. Their twin Gen Elec F110 afterburners could produce around 125 kN of thrust EACH.
I wish we would have seen it from the outside at 85,000 feet passing something slower and then video from behind of the colossal engines in full ramjet mode.
I remember hearing SR-71 pilot Brian Shul get asked how fast the plane could really go and and he just chuckled and said "faster than the book says it can."
The SR-71 is my favorite aircraft. Maybe not as heavily armed as the Eagle but it's gonna sneak up on them MiGs real quiet like and shoot them with its camera. My neighbor is an old F-4 Phantom pilot. He saw a little action in Vietnam. I keep telling him to write a book. He had his share of close calls and narrow escapes from MiGs. These are my 3 favorite aviation books: - Her Majesty's Top Gun by Sharkey Ward - Phantom II by Val Ross Johnson - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson
Pity the Avro Arrow was canned before it was allowed to set records. It was going to be comfortably a Mach 2.5 plane and was heading into the Mach 3 brigade.
@@matthewdavies2057 Yes, Canadians do care, because the cancellation of the Arrow gutted their entire aerospace industry and destroyed a huge amount of technological design in Canada.
@@CyrusdVulture I'm Canadian and it does get tiresome. Nobody is stopping us from getting back in to aviation in a big way...oh wait we had that federal election a few days ago. 😏
@@CyrusdVulture agreed. All our talent went to the Americans and the Brits fostering the biggest increase in aerospace technologies. Just not in Canada. Thanks Diefenbaker.
I imagine the X37B falls in this category also... The speeds obtain are beyond human endurance... The Space Shuttle was a remarkable vehicle in its own right...
@@t.d.phillips7283 It's not speed that can get beyond our endurance, it's acceleration. Skylon probably won't be built as is post spacex but that was going to be human rated and it's orbital sprint is Mach 5 to Mach 25. Which'll certainly put a smile on your face, regardless.
The issue here is that with the exception of the SR-71 and perhaps the Mig 31, none of these speeds are cruising speeds. They are just the maximum speeds at the right altitude that can be maintained for 1 or 2 minutes at most.
That knew what mach 6 would do to a person, nothing. Its not velocity that is a problem for humans, its acceleration. Right now you are moving at over 1000 mph because of Earth moving but you don't notice it. Velocity doesn't harm people. You must watch too many movies.
@@Nick-tm2sw So you’re telling me he started flying at Mach 6??? Or did he have to accelerate to Mach 6??? Per your words.. Acceleration is the issue. At best he started at Mach 1. Still needed to go thru 5 more Mach levels. Did they have the flight suits they do today to compress blood to keep form blackout??
@@mikemosley535 the problem is the sudden change in velocity not the top speed. Sitting in a plane going mach 6 would feel no different than one going 500km/h.
You forgot the aircraft for which I served as a Plane Captain on in the US Navy. The RA-5C Vigilante was a high-altitude Mach 2.1 reconnaissance aircraft that began as a high-speed nuclear bomber. It served from 1961-1979.
Glad you included HSTDV, actually it was flown to mach 6.5 just for validating the scramjet technology, HSTDV is actually just a tech demonstrator, it will be taken to mach 10 in the next test Edit- not mach 10 but mach 12.
@@kingofallgodzillas9901 yeah mig-29 is hella sexy. Heck, every fucking russian aircraft looks hella sexy. Maybe not the mig-21 but everything else for sure.
They kind of wrecked this by -putting in planes that haven’t even been built -and some sort of glide vehicle that fundamentally doesn’t even fly, it’s simply controls it’s drop, like a fancy brick. - And the X43A data is quite misleading, it takes a plane and a booster to get it high where the air is thin and then when there it flips on its engines and though it goes very fast this only lasts for 10 seconds before the engine dies and then it begins to glide and eventually crash land in the ocean…is this really a plane? Really confuses the video and devalues it.
Just reminding that the first airplane is invented just 100 years ago.. I remember watching a video where people thought that it's probably impossible to break the sound barrier yet here we are, casually going supersonic..
Nice vid! One small point: The single-seat A12 did not have those notches in the chines up by the nose. It's the YF-12 interceptor that had those notches.
Fun fact: The US has actually breached mach 31. Its called Apollo 11. They reentered at 24 thousand MPH. Although, we have gone even faster. We have gotten up to just under mach 38.5 with the Stardust return capsule. Yeah. Rockets go REALLY fast.
Thanks for this, but it would be good to have an indicator of which are implemented. A couple of these are concepts right now, and their performance is a wish-list.
@@dragunovbushcraft152 that is false. The SR-72 has not flown as it has not been assembled yet. It's suggested by some to fly by 2023 or 2025, but those dates are gonna vary anyways.
F22 and F23 actually have a higher max speed...it's just that their afterburner stats are secret. All the other US fighters are using their afterburner speeds
yes, of course.. And only the Russians and the Chinese merge the true performance of the aircraft into the network.. Neither the author nor you know or recognize the real characteristics.. So keep fantasizing..))
@@Белка-ъ3ю it’s not it’s speed it is it’s electronics warfare Suite that truly makes any fighter these days. Thats why the F22 was never sold or left unattended in allied hangers, or ours as well. We ETechs had a saying when I was still ‘in’. “Leave it in the Cellar till it ripens to a true ambrosia fitting of the times. Just let it chill a while longer”. China just might cause us to drag some of it out!
Idea for future videos - US fighter jets in chronological order and a separate video of Russian fighter jets in chronological order. It would be interesting to see the evolution of jet design.
@@IonPerseus True... But so does Russia. The Sukhoi design bureau makes some beautiful aircraft, but the USA makes cutting edge aircraft a specialty. What is sad are the power hungry narcissist's in power places in our countries. Hell around the world for that matter. I have never had a problem with anyone in any nation amongst the working class folks like myself. Its politicians and bureaucrats that ruin peace and unity..
To achieve greatness?? *destuction* *chaos* *killing* *murders* *devastation* *wars* *xenophobia* *genocide* *fear* *hate* all but no greatness in these sadly
I wish we could work together for something more peaceful… trillions of billions of dollars in these projects but people are still starving on earth while we -in our 1st world countries- are wasting time, food, water and all sorts of countless resources which are not limitless. Where are we going with our greatness, sir? To perdition, to our self destruction. That is all we know sadly. Speak about greatness…
The Apollo shuttle reached Mach 32 on re-entry with a crew of three in 1969. The Space Shuttle Challenger reached Mach 23.5 before its explosion. The Space Shuttle missions performed both civilian and military missions. The Avangard is an unmanned missile.
@@weseethehypeoutside True on the Apollo shuttle which used lunar escape to reach that speed but the Challenger was being propelled by its engines right after take off when it exploded.
@@toddjones1480Don't forget, here we are shown objects which reach those high speeds within the atmosphere, not in space where there is no air resistance and friction.
Looks like the author had to put Russian flying device as fastest, because he may be a Russian nationalist. Don’t forget there is a war going on in Ukraine. Let’s pray for to the war to end, and Russia to lose it. Fuck Putin.
They are wacky in design but look hella cool. What pretty cool is that Putin himself flew in the su-47. Yes, one of the most important people on the planet flew in an experimental aircraft.
@@plutonium8879 US aircraft from the 1960s cannot even be matched by other nations today. There is a reason why the US has twice as many fighter aircraft as the Russians and Chinese combined. The US welfare state costs 2.5 trillion per year and the military budget is nothing compared to it.
@Cody Mcconnell The maker of these videos is obviously either russian, or a russian jet fanboy. Saying that a study in 2008 found that each Su-35 (from the 80s) could shoot down 2.4 F-35s? And most other american planes say little more than "was fast", "made a lot of them", or have some mostly negative connotation about it. The F-14 for example "with wings swept back it could make the mach 2.4 speed requirement set by the navy". Or the SR-71 "Could only be flown once per week because of the heavy maintenance. Often came back with rivets and parts missing". Because those are clearly the most interesting facts about those aircraft.... But yet almost every russian made aircraft has some.fact about it basically being better than some western made plane, other otherwise states how more better than everything else it is. LMAO
YF-23's max speed was and still is classified! In fact based on the info from test flights, it was much faster than F-22 without even using the afterburner.
@@manuelalejandroferreira6545 You are right at stating that he is right at saying "YF-23's max speed was and still is classified! In fact based on the info from test flights, it was much faster than F-22 without even using the afterburner."
@@mikep5695 The YF-23 had superior stealth to the YF-22/F-22, including a lower thermal signature due to it's engine design (which also meant it didn't have the 2D thrust vectoring of the YF-22, but that didn't stop it being more maneuverer according to the test pilot who flew both).
Can't fool me by putting a missile and a glide vehicle ahead of the X-15. You just didn't want an American aircraft to be number 1 huh? It is though, and we all see that.
so, if is not amercian not count? don't try, if the americans build a glide or missile that runs fast like this, people like you would make the greatest scandal of all times. americanist aways complaining about nonsense, CHILDISH!!!
by X-15 and X-43 being in the list, even X-43 with controversial information was included without question, also even though both are not airplanes, this video was very friendly to americans. btw, i'm not from rus or usa, 'm watching the fight from outside and your complaint is pretty pointless, a lot.
@@ВиталийСоломин-ф8и почему же? Мы достигли совершенства в стремлении мочить друг друга... Почти все птички военные. Хотя не спорю, красиво. Но все же жаль, что мечта о сверхскорости "после работы сгонять за час на другой континент помочь коллегам решить научную проблему" выродилась в "догнать и замочить, чтобы, хм... партнёры с тебя последние штаны не сняли".
I remember those F-104s breaking the sound barrier when i was a kid back in the 60s....they also made a howling whistle sound that was ear candy to a Kid! 😆
Some addendum: Listed top speed for the B-58 is insertion speed with the weapon/fuel pod; once they dumped that they could go faster, in an exercise one was able to walk away from the intercepting F-106. The MiG-25 was only barely capable of this sort of speed, something like 2.73 peacetime 2.86 war were the official limits, the one that was clocked at 3.2 in the Arab-Israeli wars was eating itself alive, the engines can generate more heat than can be shed, but if you successfully intercepted a B-70 or an SR-71, you'd be Hero of the Soviet Union even if you slagged the engines in the process. Similarly the A-12/SR-71 family had a significant "sprint" capacity somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.5-3.7, possibly incurring damage like the MiG. I suspect that the true top speed of several of these aircraft is essentially "Untenable" and whatever gets printed is some combination of somebody's idea of V:NE and reports from the field of making a certain speed in isolated circumstances.
I am an Indian pilot, I have traveled a lot of fighter aircraft in my life, but what I saw is power and speed and dread, only Rafale is a very dangerous fighter aircraft.
Only reason why it was able to track and get a lock on a blackbird is because they were flying the same routes time and time again. And being that Sweden and the US are allies, the -71 pilots were not worried about the Swedes. Had they deviated their flight paths coming from Russia, would the Swede pilot been able to find, much less lock on to a blackbird...doubtful.
I think i saw one a long time ago at Wright Pat in Dayton Ohio. I had one of those models. Do they still make plastic model airplanes?, or are they all gone?
@@keithfaulkner6319 They still make model airplanes, albeit mostly the more popular models of old and of course the newer models. As for the B-58, I've not seen a model kit in well over 10yrs if I recall correctly. I wish I still had the patience, eyesight & space to do this hobby again. If you want a model; Ebay has them brand new ranging from $20-100 depending on scale.
@@keithfaulkner6319 Ebay like any other site has its flaws; but they do protect buyers more than sellers. As an Ebay seller; I say this from experience. If you ever find you would like to try to build one; try Ebay with confidence. I may just do the same sometime in the New Year.
They underestimated the SR 71 black bird. My next-door neighbor is one of the engineers for that particular plane and assured me the SR 71 black bird is the fastest plane ever made. Old chappie
Every one says that the X-15 is the fastest but no, the SR-71 is the fastest AIRPLANE, so that declairs it the fastest because the X-15 is a rocket engine
Should have given honorable mentions to the avro cf-105 which paved the way for many of the delta wing aircraft on this list reaching mach 1.9 before the project was hijacked and cancelled..✌🏻🥂
@@canadianobserver5552 the only thing about it that was ahead of its time was the fly-by-wire system. Canning it probably set fly by wire development back a few years. Edit: The Convair F-106 (which is on the list and had its first flight while the Arrow was still on the design board) along with the airframe it was developed from (the Convair F-102) probably has a better claim to paving the way for the more modern delta wing aircraft on the list...
As a kid I had a collection of postcard sized "cards" that were essentially baseball cards for just about every plane/jet you could think of. I had boxes of them and the mig 21 Foxbat was my fav.
@@StevenSiew2 The Firefox is fictional. The real MiG-31 is called the Foxhound - an interceptor designed to kill strategic bombers in one pass. It's fast, but don't ask it to turn tight.
@@razzberry5134 MiG 31 Foxhound can reach mach 3.2 and it has the most powerful radar in existance it hit a household door size target 500km away with ultra long range AA missile 15 years ago... And for what it's built for it does not need to turn.
меня другой веселит, Блек Берд по описанию может летать только раз в неделю, после каждого полета он очень долго восстанавливается, часто возвращается без какой то детали. Это все равно экспериментальный самолет и от него нет особой пользы.
Holy cow- all these years,I always assumed the fictional aircraft “Firefox” was loosely based on the SR-71, as that’s what my dad told me. But looking now, the look of it was clearly modeled after the Valkyrie. Now I need to rewatch that movie
Alot of these are still not declassified in regards to its full capability and definitely speed. The Mig 25 can go faster than 3.2, it just can't sustain it.
@@diddlysquat123 Yeah, but the issue for the MiG is massive engine wear forcing it to change engines after pushing so far and the cockpit becoming opaque from heat, not coming apart. Steel construction has advantages like that.
@McFlickers pretty much yeah. It wasnt meant for military use as much a to test the effects of hypersonic flight for the Gemini, Mercury and Apollo space programs.
Just a minor note; The starfighter had Canadian markings not American. Although the Canadiens did buy the Starfighter off of The Americans. Also you may want to include the Avro Arrow that flew from the 50s to the killing of the project in 1959. With the Iroquois engines it was to break mach 3.
He leaked top gun lol
He really did lol (I was searching for dark star from top gun and found this)
watched it yesterday, incredible movie
you mean the SR-72 sir?
Damn, you're right. 7:03
He did!
The faster they get ,the more they look like my paper airplane designs from primary school.
Everything goes full circle eventually
You had something figured out then lol
Your paper plane move slow
@@Trick9174 nah man,fast and straight like an arrow.However now I think about it there was another design that was popular that looked entirely different to the other designs getting banded about that went for speed and distance.This other design (all were copied off friends) looked short and had a broad nose and went for a loopy slow flight.ahh the memories and hours spent.
7:58 this one 😆
This shows just how much ahead of their time engineers from the 50s and 60s were. Golden age for aircraft.
i completely agree,
Unless, of course, our advanced modern designs are not being disclosed for public consumption.
@@drkies super fast planes were used for reconnaissance, we now just use satellites.
Aliens helped
And for many other things too....cars, entertainment, people, etc.
I love how a human was the pilot of a thing that was almost seven times the speed of sound 60 YEARS AGO.
7 times the speed of sound is a lot for an airplane but it's nothing if you compare it to the speed of the rocket boosters that is flying towar space :D
Lmao, that's merely a dumb deduction. Scientists today realized that there are things more important than just speed to the aircraft.
It's also the fact the main principle changed, first they needed to go further, then higher, then faster, but the moment the anti air missiles made it all more or less useless, (and the general advance of rockets as carriers of nuclear warheads) they went back to fuel economy, better maneuvering and 'stealth'
All the pilot did was hit the rockets ignition switches, after that he was just a passenger
@@crazyfroggie6546 he still flew horizontally at Mach 6.7. that's insane
6:34
Origin: Rusia
First flight: ASK PUTIN
Well, fair enough
Well, you might as well ask the Holy Lord himself, as it is rather obvious that Mister Putin believe that he (Putin) plays in the same kind of league.. 😸😸 - 😉😉 - 😸😸
Th. Benjaminsson in Sweden - - - 🇸🇪🇸🇪 - 🇪🇺🇪🇺 - - -
Actually, including future aircraft was stupid. Half these aircraft will never fly.
Yes, that is undoubtedly true - but, regarding "Estimated" Top Speed Cabability of a certain Jet Fighter or comparable aircraft is always a mindbuggling work - what can be concidered being absolutely uncompromisingly correct in all imaginable situations?
Th. Benjaminsson - Sweden
* 🇸🇪 * 🇸🇪 *
First flight is expected in 2025.
@@daan1847 Putin said- Middle of the 20's. Ramjet.
Fun how the Blackbird was actually designed to leak fuel like a sieve while on the ground, and had to actively be fueled right up till takeoff. To keep the all-metal construction from tearing itself apart mid-flight, it was built with loose tolerances so that the heat of high speed flight would cause the metal parts to expand and seal themselves back up. They actually had to refuel midair right after takeoff because they used lightweight landing gear to save weight that couldn't handle a full fuel load. They had to make sure everything was operating smoothly after takeoff before they refueled because it wouldn't survive landing with a full load.
We saw the video thanks.
Just imagine how many people would get healthcare with the money spent on development this apparatus!
Miracle of engineering
@@Protein33 that wasnt in the video...
@@Protein33 Your eyes must have been closed because that wasn't in the video
The funny thing is, when it comes to combat, aircraft almost NEVER go supersonic. That's why the newest, most expensive fighters are actually slower than those from the 70's. Studies were done on battles during the Korean war and 0% of combat situations ever were done above mach 1. Even getting to and from fights high speed was rarely used because it destroyed fuel consumption.
The real threat for combat aircraft is ground AA. Even if all in flight combat isn't above Mach 1, having the ability to out maneuver and outrun ground to air missiles is a valuable ability in combat aircraft
Bruh the study was from Vietnam showing that F-4s fly mostly subsonic and sometimes reach Mach 1.2 during combat. There was no supersonic jets in Korea
there were no supersonic jet fighters during the korean war...
aircraft getting slower isn't because reaching mach 2 is useless, but there's more of a focus on ensuring aircraft can "supercruise" aka reach supersonic speeds without the use of afterburners. reaching mach 1.5 without afterburners is a lot more useful than mach 2 with afterburners
I believe the ability to turn a tight circle is the biggest advantage in a dogfight which is why fighters have vectored thrust now. The Japanese zero was a good example of this. British and American pilots were trained not to get into these types of maneuvers with a zero because the zero would always end up behind them.
@@daddyo1176 jets haven’t had a focus on dogfighting ability since the 50’s
SR 71 has got to be one of the most futuristic looking jets to exist
The XB-70 Valkyrie has the SR-71 beat in the futuristic category. It looks like something straight out of the Imperial fleet in Star Wars.
Nah the XB looks a bit blocky. The SR71 is sleek and modern
@@texasforever7887 Here's the thing though the Valkyrie didn't see past the test stage the SR-71 was a aircraft that actually saw flight time past the test trials
@@coltonkoepp655 yes but it still existed and flew
@@allahuakhbar69420 yeah but Star Wars spacecraft are a bit blocky
The SR-71's true top speed was and still is classified at mach 3.2+. Remember the airstrike on Libya in 86? The pilots exceeded mach 3.2 when some SAM's were fired at it. I remember one saying they were approaching mach 4 when they throttled back. I was stationed at The Blue Cube at the Satellite control facility in Sunnyvale, Ca.at that time and we were in contact with JCS and HQ USAF during that mission. Can't hit it if you can't see or catch it.
That’s exactly right. Also very cool that you got to witness it as it was happening.
Idolized the SR-71 when I was a kid. I built many jet models and would hang them from my bedroom ceiling. The SR was one of my favorites as well as the F-4 and F-14. Of course Top Gun is still the best movie ever made.
The man who gave the orders for the Libya air strike was a patient of mine. He told me the “real story”!
Altho the manual for SR-21 is in public domain
A velocidade máxima relatada em um Blackbird é de MACH 3.9.
Lol MiG-41 First flight: ask Putin. Nice job lol, that made me laugh
лет через 8 я его увижу ;)
@@Otpevatel Он уже есть и летал. Только в 1 экземпляре. Просто это лишком секретно, так как сам понимаешь- Гиперзвуковой истребитель..... У нас есть ещё один интересный истребитель "Чёрная чума", о нём тоже почти ничего не известно, только то, что он патрулирует Арктику.
@@_Vinter_ i dont speak russian
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Privyet
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I guess this means hello
I love the Mig 41
"Origi: Russia"
"First flight: Ask Putin"
Hilarious! 🤣
Hey! Don't laugh! If mr. Putain said so it must be true 😡🥳
Ya 🤣🤣🤣
Не обольщайся. Скоро премьера. Записывайся на тест-драйв.
P.S.: Если не трус, конешно.
@@Pekokakko q.q..
@@mihail3588 пфф. Мультики как всегда?
The F-4 was was ahead of it's time for it's all around capabilities. Incredible service life.
Mach 2+ in 1958 was so far ahead of its time that it took 50 years to retire it! I worked fire control on most of the N/J/S models.
@@earl2688 Going mach 2.2 isn't really "being so far ahead of its time" considering Mig21 was made 3 years before and it could reach a top speed of 2.1 already.
Going at mach 0.10 or 0.15 faster isn't that huge of an "innovation".
The mig-25 is old and still is impressive the things it can do
Imagine what it could’ve been if the Soviet made a higher quality variant of it that doesn’t made out of nickel steel alloy and engines that didn’t last just around 150 hours. Sure as an interceptor it really does not need high maneuverability but those weight reduction could’ve pushed the aircraft even faster.
@@dannyzero692 that's the MIG-31, another "a lot of records" breaker plane, that is the actual interceptor of Russia
@@dannyzero692 adding to my last comment, the MIG-31 has since it's introduction 1975 some stuff that where new and introduced today planes like targeting enemy planes for your group or guiding allied misiles shot, a navegation computer (Rita) that talk to the pilot. The mig-31 has been modernized several times with newest radars, engines, sensors, led screen interfaces, with the newest sensors it's the chassis of a 1975 plane that reach match 3.5 and reach altitudes of 123500feet. Search mustard UA-cam channel and his video about the MiG-25, at the end he talks about the mig-31
@@internetisinteresting7720 The 25 was an interceptor as well, and was official until the 31 took its place. The engines used were R-15-300s, which were limited use, missile engines, rather than dedicated jet engines. And yes, the 25 also had low maneuverability due to the heavy, structural wings and heavy material choice. The 31 corrected a lot of these issues
@@dannyzero692 a long way to describe the MiG-31
Amazing that after all these years, the X-15 still rules supreme... Above that, only unmanned. Missiles should've not been included in this video, not exactly "aircraft", and they only fly once... But since we include suborbital vehicles we should include the Space Shuttle (Mach 28) ate the top of the list, and it is a crewed aircraft.
I would say that technology demonstrators like the X-43 count
So the Chinese claim. LOL!! India? They can't even pick up their trash they scattered all over the Moon. 😆😂🤣
Hey you from which country
@@SUNDARAN.. China.
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT I don't know if you're trying to trigger any Indians, but one thing I must say is that China is no better than anything :)
Notably, you missed the North American A/RA-5 in your list of military aircraft capable of Mach 2.0+ speed at 40,000 feet. On 13 December 1960, an A3J variant set the world altitude record of 91,450.8 feet (27,874.2 m), carrying a 1000 kilogram payload. According to Wikipedia and other sources, the crew, Navy Cmdr. Leroy Heath, pilot, and Lt. Larry Monroe, navigator/bombardier, accelerated the Vigilante to Mach 2.1 and then flew upward in a ballistic trajectory until the engines flamed out. At the top of the arc it rolled on its back and nosed down. Heath righted the aircraft and restarted the engines. They landed safely.
They also mussed the MIG-25 Foxbat, literally the fastest fighter craft ever made
@@DrRaccoon-ux9gq 6:07
russia best
People don't realize how fast the F14 Tomcats were. In a straight line, they'll blow the doors off of all but a handful of the fastest modern jets. Their twin Gen Elec F110 afterburners could produce around 125 kN of thrust EACH.
agreed - what an amazing aircraft, clearly ahead in so many ways, I was blown away to learn it was developed and sketched in the 60/70's ?
"Have you seen the Black Bird in flight?"
Of course not that's like going in the speed of a bullet but times 3.5
Me: "of course not, It was 1965"
I wish we would have seen it from the outside at 85,000 feet passing something slower and then video from behind of the colossal engines in full ramjet mode.
I sat in one and saw it fly at Norton AFB.
@@journeyquest1 Kkomrade o7
He actually meant a bird
They got one on display in Georgia. Absolutely beutiful
The SR-71 is still my favorite. Nothing you can say will change my mind.
You know it's badass if the X-Men use one for their main transport vehicle.
SR-72
I remember hearing SR-71 pilot Brian Shul get asked how fast the plane could really go and and he just chuckled and said "faster than the book says it can."
Little known fact but it was meant to be the RS71, but they made a typo and stuck with SR71.
Nice, if not very maneuverable...
The F15 model you used was my unit's flagship plane. Very cool to see the 173FW represented in one of your videos!
Very cool!!!
Were you part of 1999. mission over Yugoslavia?
Do you know if the f15 or 16 were stealthy on radar. The f16 is labeled as a stealth in the video and I've never known anything about that
@@XxSoGRAMBOxX wow
Looks like they're stationed in Oregon? The inside of the tail looks like the State of Oregon
The SR-71 is my favorite aircraft. Maybe not as heavily armed as the Eagle but it's gonna sneak up on them MiGs real quiet like and shoot them with its camera.
My neighbor is an old F-4 Phantom pilot. He saw a little action in Vietnam. I keep telling him to write a book. He had his share of close calls and narrow escapes from MiGs.
These are my 3 favorite aviation books:
- Her Majesty's Top Gun by Sharkey Ward
- Phantom II by Val Ross Johnson
- Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson
Lol russia entered the chat
I love the little character cameos, those are a nice touch.👍
agreed 🛩
@@supercheese905 👍👍👍
Indeed
" *Drops a tiny screw* "
*GONE TO A DIFFERENT DIMENSION*
Now that's speed.
Pity the Avro Arrow was canned before it was allowed to set records. It was going to be comfortably a Mach 2.5 plane and was heading into the Mach 3 brigade.
Only Canadians care.
@@matthewdavies2057 Yes, Canadians do care, because the cancellation of the Arrow gutted their entire aerospace industry and destroyed a huge amount of technological design in Canada.
@@CyrusdVulture I'm Canadian and it does get tiresome. Nobody is stopping us from getting back in to aviation in a big way...oh wait we had that federal election a few days ago. 😏
@@CyrusdVulture agreed. All our talent went to the Americans and the Brits fostering the biggest increase in aerospace technologies. Just not in Canada. Thanks Diefenbaker.
A lot the engineers went to Nasa furthering the space race
People want to be fast, but sometimes you must stop to see real beauty... or video like this 😉
Bandit where is my fucking cocaine.
@@StormFox_1 uhhhh... Drugs? I dont know, man. Where did you buy it? Maybe, you should ask your dealer...
Auf Wiedersehen
@@bandit327 You are my dealer damn it.
This comment is so..
Cringe
Okay fortune cookie Maverick
"pure glide vehicle"
ok. So is the Buran and the Space shuttle. The latter of which was designed to military spec and for military purpose.
Buran was powered
@@Can_E_ only on the way up.
Both shuttles glided back.
I imagine the X37B falls in this category also... The speeds obtain are beyond human endurance... The Space Shuttle was a remarkable vehicle in its own right...
@@t.d.phillips7283
It's not speed that can get beyond our endurance, it's acceleration.
Skylon probably won't be built as is post spacex but that was going to be human rated and it's orbital sprint is Mach 5 to Mach 25.
Which'll certainly put a smile on your face, regardless.
@@MostlyPennyCat with acceleration like that I wouldn't worry about the smile on my face as much as the residue in my lower suit...
Great to see these visualized and their history summary given!
However... I don't usually think of the F-16 as "Stealth"...
Ground breaking avionics but it having stealth capabilities slipped by me also👍
The issue here is that with the exception of the SR-71 and perhaps the Mig 31, none of these speeds are cruising speeds. They are just the maximum speeds at the right altitude that can be maintained for 1 or 2 minutes at most.
The Foxbat could do Mach 3+ but it destroyed it's engines in the process so it's maximum safe speed is around mach 2.8, the same as the Foxhound
there was a reason pilots for the SR-71 had to wear spacesuits.
@@seekerpro486 mig 31 and 25 pilots also wore spacesuits (light)
Mach 2.83 (3495Km/h) is combat speed fully loaded for MIG 31BM at an altitude of 25000m. Mach 3 for emergency only.
The X15 was flown in 1959 at Mach 6.
Think about that.
It was manned.
They had no clue what Mach 6 would do to a person.
And just two years later they launched a dude all the way to orbit. Crazy shit.
What I wouldn't do to be a fly on the wall when they were briefing the piolet
That knew what mach 6 would do to a person, nothing. Its not velocity that is a problem for humans, its acceleration. Right now you are moving at over 1000 mph because of Earth moving but you don't notice it. Velocity doesn't harm people. You must watch too many movies.
@@Nick-tm2sw
So you’re telling me he started flying at Mach 6???
Or did he have to accelerate to Mach 6???
Per your words..
Acceleration is the issue.
At best he started at Mach 1.
Still needed to go thru 5 more Mach levels.
Did they have the flight suits they do today to compress blood to keep form blackout??
@@mikemosley535 the problem is the sudden change in velocity not the top speed. Sitting in a plane going mach 6 would feel no different than one going 500km/h.
You forgot the aircraft for which I served as a Plane Captain on in the US Navy. The RA-5C Vigilante was a high-altitude Mach 2.1 reconnaissance aircraft that began as a high-speed nuclear bomber. It served from 1961-1979.
Thank you for using my aircraft
Cool story bro! 👍🏻
who asked
@@RedBeardBookie Sorry. I forgot to ask your permission. Next time I will.
Hey what about the The RA-5C Vigilante?
Glad you included HSTDV, actually it was flown to mach 6.5 just for validating the scramjet technology, HSTDV is actually just a tech demonstrator, it will be taken to mach 10 in the next test
Edit- not mach 10 but mach 12.
Amazing
Yes it was just a preliminary test flight -Proud Indian
Rookie numbers ! On our planet we achieved warp drive technology
@@iamasmurf1122 On your… planet?
@@spartannige3296 easy there m8, just a joke.
Proud to see India in top 5 of the list.... Jay Hind 💫🇮🇳
Ah yes the MiG-31, my favorite speedy boi
Ahhh yes ekpic plane made to chase the sr1/blackbird.
@@riccccccardo the mig-25 was the speedier boi, chasing blackbirds
Mine is mig-29 cus of how cool it looks
@@kingofallgodzillas9901 yeah mig-29 is hella sexy. Heck, every fucking russian aircraft looks hella sexy. Maybe not the mig-21 but everything else for sure.
Nah, X15.
Always always always take Chinese specifications with a grain of salt.
To be fair, you probably can't make these claims nowadays without some satellite verifying their flight speeds from space.
the SR-72 hasn't even been flown and claiming mach 6, now that's suspect
Because it's too bland ?
better than over estimate than underestimate
They kind of wrecked this by
-putting in planes that haven’t even been built -and some sort of glide vehicle that fundamentally doesn’t even fly, it’s simply controls it’s drop, like a fancy brick.
- And the X43A data is quite misleading, it takes a plane and a booster to get it high where the air is thin and then when there it flips on its engines and though it goes very fast this only lasts for 10 seconds before the engine dies and then it begins to glide and eventually crash land in the ocean…is this really a plane?
Really confuses the video and devalues it.
I mean yeah if gliding things are valid, the Space Shuttle Orbiter beats them all its wings taste atmosphere when its still going 22x sound.
@@filanfyretracker military
I vote the U.S.S. Enterprise (not the carrier). Warp-9 ftw.
@@shinji5217 The STS way very military-focused.
@@tankpenguin175 is et
You forgot Mach 33: Me when my girlfriend's husband gets home.
Just reminding that the first airplane is invented just 100 years ago.. I remember watching a video where people thought that it's probably impossible to break the sound barrier yet here we are, casually going supersonic..
And to think, supersonic is now boring. All about the hypersonic lol.
@@dylan-5287 i know - high hypersonic
Nice vid! One small point: The single-seat A12 did not have those notches in the chines up by the nose. It's the YF-12 interceptor that had those notches.
4:41
Maverick. Goose
"Top Gun"
🔥🔥
Here after Top Gun 2
@7:21, congratulations DRDO👍 Jai Hind 🙏🇮🇳
The French strategic nuclear bomber Dassault Mirage IV is missing, able to reach Mach 2.2...
Mirage G at 2.34 too
Strange, nobody remembers the French...
No, the data was classified.
Perhaps
Also missing
Mirage III max speed Mach 2.2 first figth 1956 introduced in 1961
Mirage 2000 max speed Match 2.2 fist figth 1976 introduced 1984
Lets talk about actual aircraft not pipe dreams, until it flys, the MIG41 is a pipe dream.
Add the scam that is Skylon to that list as well.
Did you ask Putin?
@@INdaBORZOM The X-15 was man controlled?
@@danielmayfield8262 Somehow yes it was
@@danielmayfield8262 *Yes.*
Fun fact: The US has actually breached mach 31. Its called Apollo 11. They reentered at 24 thousand MPH. Although, we have gone even faster. We have gotten up to just under mach 38.5 with the Stardust return capsule. Yeah. Rockets go REALLY fast.
Another fun fact : Apollo 13 came in at an even higher speed of 24816 mph, faster than the normal apollo reentry speed of 24545 mph 🙂 Cheers.
Excellent video and I love the little gems of comedy you put in there.
Thank you kindly! 😁😁
Thanks for this, but it would be good to have an indicator of which are implemented. A couple of these are concepts right now, and their performance is a wish-list.
The SR-72 has been flying for several years. The MiG 41 is a thought concept.
@@dragunovbushcraft152 that is false. The SR-72 has not flown as it has not been assembled yet. It's suggested by some to fly by 2023 or 2025, but those dates are gonna vary anyways.
@@Sam_McCall Seen too many "donut on a rope" trails in Cali, to believe you.
@@dragunovbushcraft152 well it's probably something else then.
@@Sam_McCall Nothing else makes "Donut on a rope".
F22 and F23 actually have a higher max speed...it's just that their afterburner stats are secret. All the other US fighters are using their afterburner speeds
yes, of course.. And only the Russians and the Chinese merge the true performance of the aircraft into the network.. Neither the author nor you know or recognize the real characteristics.. So keep fantasizing..))
Yeah, theres AB probably melts ,like F35 Hahahaha......
Il est oi le meilleur avions de chasse au monde :le rafale(bien meilleur que le f22 raptor)
Every platforms have their own advantages and disadvantages
We don't want a war to happen so peace guys
@@Белка-ъ3ю it’s not it’s speed it is it’s electronics warfare Suite that truly makes any fighter these days. Thats why the F22 was never sold or left unattended in allied hangers, or ours as well. We ETechs had a saying when I was still ‘in’. “Leave it in the Cellar till it ripens to a true ambrosia fitting of the times. Just let it chill a while longer”. China just might cause us to drag some of it out!
So SR71 being that fast in 1964,just imagine what they're hiding from us in 2022.
America have shit cooking they just don't want it to get copied
Idea for future videos - US fighter jets in chronological order and a separate video of Russian fighter jets in chronological order. It would be interesting to see the evolution of jet design.
USA always leading the way after WWII
I really enjoyed that little trip through history.
@@rocketmann8333 well USA always had a money to burn
@@IonPerseus True... But so does Russia. The Sukhoi design bureau makes some beautiful aircraft, but the USA makes cutting edge aircraft a specialty. What is sad are the power hungry narcissist's in power places in our countries. Hell around the world for that matter. I have never had a problem with anyone in any nation amongst the working class folks like myself. Its politicians and bureaucrats that ruin peace and unity..
@@rocketmann8333 Yeah, you ´re right!
I loved the F-4 Phantom shot, with The Hulk sitting in a WWII Jeep.
*SR-71 is still my favorite. But they're ALL gorgeous examples of what the human mind is capable of when we work together to achieve greatness.*
Work together to achieve greatness? Or work faster than your enemies in a never ending arms race?
To achieve greatness?? *destuction* *chaos* *killing* *murders* *devastation* *wars* *xenophobia* *genocide* *fear* *hate* all but no greatness in these sadly
I wish we could work together for something more peaceful… trillions of billions of dollars in these projects but people are still starving on earth while we -in our 1st world countries- are wasting time, food, water and all sorts of countless resources which are not limitless. Where are we going with our greatness, sir? To perdition, to our self destruction. That is all we know sadly. Speak about greatness…
In Russia we call it #the most expensive camera in the world#
They're designed to KILL!
The Apollo shuttle reached Mach 32 on re-entry with a crew of three in 1969. The Space Shuttle Challenger reached Mach 23.5 before its explosion. The Space Shuttle missions performed both civilian and military missions. The Avangard is an unmanned missile.
such high speeds caused by lunar escape
@@weseethehypeoutside True on the Apollo shuttle which used lunar escape to reach that speed but the Challenger was being propelled by its engines right after take off when it exploded.
@@weseethehypeoutside They have a glide vehicle in the top slot, so shuttles should be included, or the glide vehicle removed.
@@toddjones1480Don't forget, here we are shown objects which reach those high speeds within the atmosphere, not in space where there is no air resistance and friction.
Looks like the author had to put Russian flying device as fastest, because he may be a Russian nationalist. Don’t forget there is a war going on in Ukraine. Let’s pray for to the war to end, and Russia to lose it. Fuck Putin.
After all this time I still love the look of YF23 and SU47.
YF-23 is at 2:46
They are wacky in design but look hella cool. What pretty cool is that Putin himself flew in the su-47. Yes, one of the most important people on the planet flew in an experimental aircraft.
Reminder that Blackbirds top speed is still classified, and people who worked on it laugh at videos like this.
Indeed.
Ok am I the only one that spotted Ironman hanging onto the f22 wing? 😂😂 @3:24
Nope. But you missed Hulk at 03:06.
VIDEO HELPED ME OUT ALOT!!! KEEP THE CONTENT COMING!!!
Ah yes, the F-16 stealth air superiority fighter
I was thinking the most unstealthy stealth fighter
1974 technology in modern age global aerospace technology.....garbage. Meanwhile, record military budgets, more than any other nation.
@@plutonium8879
US aircraft from the 1960s cannot even be matched by other nations today. There is a reason why the US has twice as many fighter aircraft as the Russians and Chinese combined.
The US welfare state costs 2.5 trillion per year and the military budget is nothing compared to it.
Lol ikr
@Cody Mcconnell The maker of these videos is obviously either russian, or a russian jet fanboy. Saying that a study in 2008 found that each Su-35 (from the 80s) could shoot down 2.4 F-35s? And most other american planes say little more than "was fast", "made a lot of them", or have some mostly negative connotation about it. The F-14 for example "with wings swept back it could make the mach 2.4 speed requirement set by the navy". Or the SR-71 "Could only be flown once per week because of the heavy maintenance. Often came back with rivets and parts missing". Because those are clearly the most interesting facts about those aircraft.... But yet almost every russian made aircraft has some.fact about it basically being better than some western made plane, other otherwise states how more better than everything else it is. LMAO
1:16 Always knew i was faster than my Chinese impostor
lol
Imao
susඞchina
L(mao)
L(mao)
Nice Video Bro. Keep it up.
Thank you, I will 😁
@@AmazingViz plz make video on best military trucks in the world.
SR-71 Blackbird my favorite, the design so cool
YF-23's max speed was and still is classified! In fact based on the info from test flights, it was much faster than F-22 without even using the afterburner.
You right, the YF23 is faster than the f22 and and it’s speed is still classified
@@manuelalejandroferreira6545 You are right at stating that he is right at saying "YF-23's max speed was and still is classified! In fact based on the info from test flights, it was much faster than F-22 without even using the afterburner."
Baran Arslan You are right in posting that he was right about him being right.
The 22 wasn't designed for that type of speed but for stealth. Something neither the SU or YF has.
@@mikep5695 The YF-23 had superior stealth to the YF-22/F-22, including a lower thermal signature due to it's engine design (which also meant it didn't have the 2D thrust vectoring of the YF-22, but that didn't stop it being more maneuverer according to the test pilot who flew both).
6:55 love the Empire logo on the wing 😂
6:50 who knew the proper way to fly X-51 was to "surf" it...then again, it is called the "waverider"
0:50 J-20 goes Mach 2.0
5:20 J-20 goes Mach 2.5
such acceleration!
Thanks for including the A-12, SR-71 gets all the credit but the first blackbird had a slight edge in speed.
The SR-71 was an operation aircraft.
@@bighands69 A-12 was CIA, SR-71 was USAF.
Be funny if it just scrolled over a random ass X-Wing out of nowhere.
I remember as lad in the 50's Peter Twiss becoming the first man to do 1'000 mph in level flight in the Fairey Delta 2 .🇬🇧
Very beautiful plane
Can't fool me by putting a missile and a glide vehicle ahead of the X-15. You just didn't want an American aircraft to be number 1 huh? It is though, and we all see that.
Yep! I noticed that too
Straight up, these lists always try to downplay US accomplishments and it's so weird...
so, if is not amercian not count? don't try, if the americans build a glide or missile that runs fast like this, people like you would make the greatest scandal of all times.
americanist aways complaining about nonsense, CHILDISH!!!
by X-15 and X-43 being in the list, even X-43 with controversial information was included without question, also even though both are not airplanes, this video was very friendly to americans.
btw, i'm not from rus or usa, 'm watching the fight from outside and your complaint is pretty pointless, a lot.
no htv in the vid lol
Миру Мир ! Птички красивые. Сколько труда ушло на создание этих машин , представить сложно.
Hahah 😂
И не говори. Кажется порою даже, что весь гений человека направлен на полет.)
@@pickle6599 и все равно при этом до совершенства ещё ой как далеко
@@ВиталийСоломин-ф8и почему же? Мы достигли совершенства в стремлении мочить друг друга... Почти все птички военные. Хотя не спорю, красиво. Но все же жаль, что мечта о сверхскорости "после работы сгонять за час на другой континент помочь коллегам решить научную проблему" выродилась в "догнать и замочить, чтобы, хм... партнёры с тебя последние штаны не сняли".
@@Art-RR и не говори
Nice video. Will you make video about USMC vehicles?
NYET
Although I'm an Indian but at 7:22 I'm surprised to know that India also has one Hypersonic flight system.
Yes 😳
Wtf u haven't heard about hsdtv test 😢😢 of drdo
I think it’s a drone
Am also seeing this first
It is hypersonic glide vehicle
"F-16 - Stealth air superiority fighter"
No way that made it into the video.
The J7 is a Chinese licensed MiG 21, their armaments aren’t the same though....
Proud to see an Indian program in top class ,
🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
its only concept
I've read somewhere or heard in a documentary that sr 71 was never pushed to the limit so no one really knows what the top speed is.
Actually they do know... and you don't believe they would retire the world's fastest aircraft without a replacement? Try Mach 8 to 9.
@@TheZayas55 we dont need a replacement because we use drones and satelites for reconnaissance now. Thats why jets are heavier and slower now
Less politics will make your video better.
I remember those F-104s breaking the sound barrier when i was a kid back in the 60s....they also made a howling whistle sound that was ear candy to a Kid! 😆
They crying wolf was nicknamed...
Some addendum: Listed top speed for the B-58 is insertion speed with the weapon/fuel pod; once they dumped that they could go faster, in an exercise one was able to walk away from the intercepting F-106. The MiG-25 was only barely capable of this sort of speed, something like 2.73 peacetime 2.86 war were the official limits, the one that was clocked at 3.2 in the Arab-Israeli wars was eating itself alive, the engines can generate more heat than can be shed, but if you successfully intercepted a B-70 or an SR-71, you'd be Hero of the Soviet Union even if you slagged the engines in the process. Similarly the A-12/SR-71 family had a significant "sprint" capacity somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.5-3.7, possibly incurring damage like the MiG. I suspect that the true top speed of several of these aircraft is essentially "Untenable" and whatever gets printed is some combination of somebody's idea of V:NE and reports from the field of making a certain speed in isolated circumstances.
The Foxbat in Ace Combat was crazy fast but handled like a schoolbus in a Nascar race.
I love when it goes over the top - like the x-51 at mach 5+ with a guy riding it like a horse! :)
Oh yeah!
*MiG-41*
First flight: Ask Putin
Sure, the next time we catch up for Vodka i will remember to ask
A brand new Content... AMAZING (viz) as always❤️
Glad you enjoy it! 😁😁
I am an Indian pilot, I have traveled a lot of fighter aircraft in my life, but what I saw is power and speed and dread, only Rafale is a very dangerous fighter aircraft.
Dont have to be fast if you cant see me the Raptor
That Swedish jet which was able to track the SR-71 is impressive. I thought it’s successor should have been the SR-711.
It intercepted the SR71 head on. Mach 2 vs Mach3 (combined intercept speed Mach 5)
@@ghostviggen I don’t understand in regards to the Mach 2 vs Mach 3
@@mrhmd8308 Viggen flew Mach 2 and SR71 flew Mach 3. But since they went head to head they closed to each other at mach5.
Only reason why it was able to track and get a lock on a blackbird is because they were flying the same routes time and time again. And being that Sweden and the US are allies, the -71 pilots were not worried about the Swedes. Had they deviated their flight paths coming from Russia, would the Swede pilot been able to find, much less lock on to a blackbird...doubtful.
The SR-71 had a blown engine at the time.
I just learned of the Skylon SSTO with this video and as a Kerbal Space Program fan, I am very excited to see something like this exists
In 1970, I was first introduced to the B58 Hustler as a young kid which happened to be my first model airplane.
@@applicationuser9764 ayo??
I think i saw one a long time ago at Wright Pat in Dayton Ohio.
I had one of those models. Do they still make plastic model airplanes?, or are they all gone?
@@keithfaulkner6319 They still make model airplanes, albeit mostly the more popular models of old and of course the newer models. As for the B-58, I've not seen a model kit in well over 10yrs if I recall correctly. I wish I still had the patience, eyesight & space to do this hobby again. If you want a model; Ebay has them brand new ranging from $20-100 depending on scale.
@@artierodriguez8334 thank you. I too got old. I don't trust ebay. Then again my only contact with the outside world is my not-so-smart-phone.
@@keithfaulkner6319 Ebay like any other site has its flaws; but they do protect buyers more than sellers. As an Ebay seller; I say this from experience. If you ever find you would like to try to build one; try Ebay with confidence. I may just do the same sometime in the New Year.
They underestimated the SR 71 black bird. My next-door neighbor is one of the engineers for that particular plane and assured me the SR 71 black bird is the fastest plane ever made. Old chappie
Rich Wightman in my mind the x-15 isn’t really a plane as much as it is a research vessel.
If I would develop a fast plane who has a top speed of 3+ Mach, i would also say this plane is es fastet plane ever made.
My next door neighbor worked on the SR72 "son of blackbird" and he said his plane can kick your plane's ass
@Rich Wightman The X-15 is a rocket aircraft. It's engine are rockets but the SR-71 is an air breathing aircraft. They are in different categories.
Миг-25 достигал скорости 4 маха.
Very gooood👌👌👌
Every one says that the X-15 is the fastest but no, the SR-71 is the fastest AIRPLANE, so that declairs it the fastest because the X-15 is a rocket engine
loving how the destroyed quality of the last music piece compared to the original makes it more badass
"THE GREAT............WESTERN..........TRENDKILL.......THAT'S RIGHT!!"
Should have given honorable mentions to the avro cf-105 which paved the way for many of the delta wing aircraft on this list reaching mach 1.9 before the project was hijacked and cancelled..✌🏻🥂
It actually reached Mach 2 speeds.
@@alexc1926 was just being modest...was way ahead of it's time..
@@canadianobserver5552 the only thing about it that was ahead of its time was the fly-by-wire system. Canning it probably set fly by wire development back a few years.
Edit: The Convair F-106 (which is on the list and had its first flight while the Arrow was still on the design board) along with the airframe it was developed from (the Convair F-102) probably has a better claim to paving the way for the more modern delta wing aircraft on the list...
I wrote a hundred + page paper on this boondoggle in high school. Got me upset for sure.
Ahmen brother
As a kid I had a collection of postcard sized "cards" that were essentially baseball cards for just about every plane/jet you could think of. I had boxes of them and the mig 21 Foxbat was my fav.
You probably still have them somewhere
@@sebastianshaw210 What about the firefox which is also an novel?
@@StevenSiew2 The Firefox is fictional. The real MiG-31 is called the Foxhound - an interceptor designed to kill strategic bombers in one pass. It's fast, but don't ask it to turn tight.
@@razzberry5134 MiG 31 Foxhound can reach mach 3.2 and it has the most powerful radar in existance it hit a household door size target 500km away with ultra long range AA missile 15 years ago... And for what it's built for it does not need to turn.
amazing video
Миг 31 и миг 25 работают. Авангард поступил на вооружение. А блек берд уже не летает и тд фантастики нема)
И что с того?
25 уже списали
@@isaacfosters2911 а 31 ещё мучается.
меня другой веселит, Блек Берд по описанию может летать только раз в неделю, после каждого полета он очень долго восстанавливается, часто возвращается без какой то детали. Это все равно экспериментальный самолет и от него нет особой пользы.
Holy cow- all these years,I always assumed the fictional aircraft “Firefox” was loosely based on the SR-71, as that’s what my dad told me. But looking now, the look of it was clearly modeled after the Valkyrie. Now I need to rewatch that movie
It appears to be an amalgamation of many different designs. It looks like a cross between the Blackbird, Valkyrie, XF-108 Rapier, and the real MiG-31.
Don't do that to yourself! I actually paid money to see that movie when it was in the theaters. Tell Clint I still want a refund ($2.75).
@@BeavisFireFire 🤣
its actually the MiG-31 that was used
Alot of these are still not declassified in regards to its full capability and definitely speed. The Mig 25 can go faster than 3.2, it just can't sustain it.
Same goes for Eurofighter and Tornado
Same as sr71 probably goes Mach 4.5 or 5.0
I can go faster than 3.2 as well if you strap me to a PAC-3, doesn't mean I will survive or "sustain it", neither will a Mig-25 so it's irrelevant.
S difference between max speed and cruising speed
@@diddlysquat123 Yeah, but the issue for the MiG is massive engine wear forcing it to change engines after pushing so far and the cockpit becoming opaque from heat, not coming apart. Steel construction has advantages like that.
XB-70: expected to be invulnerable to interceptors
MiG-25: laughs in soviet
Always waiting for your new video🤗🤗🤗
X15 mind boggling for the time period . the pilots must still be shaking .
Mind boggling even today for any manned aircraft
@McFlickers and what other atmospheric manned aircraft is faster? Remember the X15 first flew in 1959, 62 years ago.
@@mjcmustang Exactly. US engineers and pilots were downright insane. It's no coincidence it took some other nations 50 years to reach those levels.
@McFlickers yes!!! And a terrible glider. Watch the movie First Man. The first scene is Armstrong flying one of those
@McFlickers pretty much yeah. It wasnt meant for military use as much a to test the effects of hypersonic flight for the Gemini, Mercury and Apollo space programs.
Love the nod to Star Wars, with the Vader and assembled Stormtroopers!
Just a minor note; The starfighter had Canadian markings not American. Although the Canadiens did buy the Starfighter off of The Americans. Also you may want to include the Avro Arrow that flew from the 50s to the killing of the project in 1959. With the Iroquois engines it was to break mach 3.