YA bit sucks they bought off our politicians here in Canada in the 50s and killed our military industrial companies. we were superior up till that point. the Avro Arrow would've dominated for a decade, but instead we had US made missiles that did squat.
True, and he might go crazy every time the russians come up with something that looks like it came from a scrapyard but does the exact same job of an american Hight tech multi-millions project.
@@1individeo Russia has nothing that compares to the US military capabilities. Every time Russia thinks it has the upper hand, the US smashes them back down.
I'm a retired US Air Force veteran. I was an ELINT Analyst (Electronic Intelligence), and I was stationed at Raf Mildenhall, Detachment 4, 9th SRW, working with the SR-71. I was stationed there 1982 through 1985. Depending on what occurred during missions, my report could land on the president's desk. I met Prince Charles, now king, when he visited our unit, and I gave him a briefing on my job. It was one of my favorite assignments. I have so many great memories!
My father in law was a colonel with the AF, and all the men in my family, going back to the Revolution fought in wars, making the military their career. God Bless you for your service.
I thought we were supposed to be separate from England after our revolution, and that England's monarchy was just symbolic. What great lies we were told!
I'm jealous also a born geek and a army veteran 63m Bradley mechanic. I plexiglass sealed functioning wind tunnel and had the SR-71 model as a test plane for my 10th grade science project. Battle I'm sooooo jealous lol
Just to give you a little glimpse into how the US does things with releasing info on weapons systems. When the US finally revealed the F-117 Nigththawk, the first stealth fighter, duting the first Gulf war in 1990, it had been operational for 7 years, and the F-22 had already been 10 years into its development cycle.
all i've seen related to this seem to suggest it's been operational for less, if at all if i'm remembering the plane correctly (might be confusing this with the usaf's ngad) lockheed martin's skunkworks had been advertising the engine publicly while looking for a buyer and only took that down sround 2018.
Actually the stealth fighter was revealed before that it was the one that crashed and there was a satellite blackout across 4 states I watched it I got to see one on the deck of an aircraft carrier in Hawaii during the 50th of Pearl harbor I was 15' away it was guarded by 3 Air Force guys with loaded m16s spoke with one and joked "Would actually use that if I ran over to touch the plane?"....he laughed
I live near the National Air Space Museum and brother, I never tire of drooling over the SR 71 on display. It was light years ahead of its time. The Dark Star will be unimaginable!!!
It’s been rumored for several years. When the last SR71 went into a museum in DC 20 years ago, it broke several records flying from California to the east coast. It will probably be several years before we know the truth about its capabilities such as top speed and maximum altitude.
You are absolutely right at 5:32. I don't know how accurate it is but I once heard of someone tell a story about a US general that was at a party and someone overheard him say something along the lines of "If we've shown it to the world, it's already obsolete." Now I don't know if that's 100% accurate, but it's probably not far off.
It’s 85% true. It was impossible to hide something like an M-1 Abrams MBT because they were transported by rail and made in the thousands, but stuff made in the tens of, and can fly, or be underwater are much more easily concealed.
@@CollinAlbert-zt6ccalso, on rare occasion, the us military will intentionally declassify secret tech to psyop other countries. the sr-72 is probably one of those.
It depends. In some cases a military technology gets declassified because it is obsolete, yes; but other times a tech is revealed because it is used in combat and can no longer be kept hidden, or because the press somehow manages to deduce enough about it, that its existence can no longer be denied. The latter is what happened to the F-117: the media managed to obtain decent-resolution photos of it and put it on magazine covers by 1987, so its existence could no longer be denied, and was formally acknowledged in '88. (However, the military did not reveal its true mission profile, and so at the time everyone was calling it "the stealth fighter", because it kind of looked like a fighter, in terms of overall shape and size. Much later, we found out that it didn't actually have any air-to-air capabilities at all; turns out it was really a strike aircraft, and actual stealth fighters came later.)
I'm pretty sure that the military has other tech that is already at least two generations ahead of what has already been revealed. Mach 20 is 15345.4 miles per hour...
it's highly rumored that the actual top speed of the sr-72 is around mach 10, which tracks with the hypersonic flight regime's technical constraints (mach 10 is around when thermals become more important than aerodynamics)
The HTV project was meant for research. When you have a craft moving that fast through atmosphere the aerodynamics change. Dual mode engines could theoretically enable a SR71 successor to be hypersonic, which is 5 or more times faster than sound ASL. We do have lasers capable of being used as weapons or to neutralize weapons but minaturizing them is hard. These spy planes are meant as a platform for cameras and developing them enables us to create new technology, which is the real purpose. At the start of WWII our fighters were crap, but by the end we had aces killing dozens of enemy fighters, because they were piloting advanced aircraft while the enemy didn't improve their equipment.
FYI, that's Mach 20 at sea level. Typically, Mach numbers for fighter jets is taken at about 50,000 feet which is roughly 660 mph for Mach 1 rather than 767 mph. No aircraft go anywhere near their top speed at low level, let alone sea level, due to the thick, heavy air.
I had the pleasure of working on the SR-71 in 1967. I was floored by the technology that was put into that aircraft and IF the SR-72 is really in production I'm sure it has many things in it's development we will never know about. Good work skunk works!
My father was a director under Ben Rich at Skunk Works. He would fly to Las Vegas and then transfer to a private jet/janet airlines which would take him to Groom. No aliens or flying saucers. Just classified aircraft. FYI, they did build the Aurora.
@@mikeroth7080this is accurate my grandfather also worked at the lake groom installation. He said he had to catch a plane to work, said he couldn't tell me what he was doing but it wasn't aliens it's aircraft testing.
The SR-71 itself wouldn't know it's own capabilities. The J-58s in the configuration used for the A-12 Archangel family are capable of pushing all 4 airframes to a speed at which the thermal heating would be so great, that the titanium used would suffer structural failure and would begin to undergo rapid airframe disintegration. As a result Mach 3.3-3.4 is the limit for the entire Archangel family due to heating. You want to go faster you better pray for a very cold day up there at 80k+ feet.
@@giannagiavelli5098 probably more that Mach 8. Lockheed engineers said they delayed the SR-72 program by 2 years because they realized they could go much much faster than the original goal of Mach 6. The question is still how much faster but ever since the program went dark in 2020/2021 Lockheed and the Air Force have been really really hush lips on the capabilities and development of the 72.
and the skin of the plane must be replaced after each flight as the friction from the air causes it to melt. The same with the Stealth Fighters. The skin of the plane actually melts and even has to be removed from the runway itself after each flight. So weird. I never realized that. The stealth fighters literally drip as if wet.
Oh, and tmi...but the real reason the A-10 was not retired is due to the fact that it was the only aerial platform that can shoot down "hostile" et crafts even though none of them are actually hostile. They just hack the munitions and send it back when fired upon. Which, of course, you can't do with the depleted uranium rounds used in the A-10. But, we're not supposed to know that ;)
One thing about the American Miliary. If you are seeing the SR 2 now, they already have the SR-5 on a drawing board. It is a certainty that the SR 3 components are being tested.
Andre, they have an SR-71 Blackbird on display at a few museums. One that I am familiar with is the Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson Arizona. Also near Tucson is a deactivated Titan missile at the Titan Missile Museum. There is an unfueled missile in its silo, with no warhead. While I am on it, the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum is in Tucson and has won numerous awards. The Air Force AMARG "boneyard" is there as well, with well over 1000 military aircraft.
My husband was an aerospace engineer back in the 60s who worked on the gyroscope, which stabilized the spy camera to prevent vibration and distortion to the film mechanism. After every flight, this mechanism had to be monitored and balanced for its next flight. He also lived on an aircraft carrier in the Bay of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam, only to service the SR-71. A few years back, this patented mechanism was finally released to the public. Just think about the number of other contributing companies with top scientists and engineers in America, working in coordination with the military. These products must have added to our GNP in economy terms as well, and still do to this day. The number of products that are required for the Blackbird SR-72 must count in the millions. AMERICA PROUD!
You aren't behind!! Even as an american here in Nevada with one of the best Air Force bases in the nation they don't really show this technology to the public. So it is very impressive I just hope we can use what we have to keep peace instead of creating conflict.
I was stationed where the SR-71 spy flights were conducted in 1968 during the Vietnam conflict. I got to see on air traffic control center radar tracking the plane on radar. Saying it was fast in an understatement.
My father and grandfather were both Aerospace Engineers that helped design and work on aircraft for NASA and all of our military branches, as well as submarines, tanks, and other equipment for the military. The most memorable projects I saw my father work on were the Space Shuttle and military planes like this one, including bombers. I also have a brother that is an Aerospace Engineer and has worked on/is working on military and commercial projects.
As a machinist I cut a lot of Titanium. It's a crazy material thats super strong but incredibly light. The machining characteristics are some of the weirdest materials I've ever come across. While it's super tough and hard it actually machines very easy but it does require a lot of insert changes due to its abrasive qualities. They make industrial diamond tipped inserts that dont really have a sharp edge and basically push the material out of the way.
@@vladyvhv9579 the funniest thing about the SR71 is the fact that the titanium used for it, most of it was covertly sourced from the russkies themselves, by a front, cia-run companies.
@@bluglass7819 Not really. It does wear out inserts very quickly though and getting it to chip can be a problem. If I had to describe it i'd call it gummy and it's kinda hard to find the perfect speed and feed rate to get it to chip. Definitely not my favorite material to cut.
@@TrulyUnfortunate thank you. I’m making guitar truss rods out of it. I ended up using threaded rod instead of rod because I thought it would be too tough to thread.
There is a good reason why the SR-72 would use a laser, if it travels at hyper sonic speeds a bullet would actually become a threat to the plane itself because the amount of drag at those speeds would cause it to decelerate back into the plane itself... plus it could also shoot down any attempts of Air to air missiles. And as a side note mach 3.2 was only the "officially" stated speed it (SR-71) could reach, there is no know top speed.
I met a retired Sr-71 pilot at the Air Force Museum in Dayton. I was chatting with him and said what if Russia had a faster plane? He said they would just push the throttle up slightly just enough to take it back. The top speed was classified even for the pilots.
The first Top Gun movie was partially developed with the US Government to be a promotional piece. Here we have a similar thing happening again with the Darkstar being featured in Maverick.
When I was a kid, the government said "there is no such thing as an SR71. The next year, I think it was Monogram Model Co. Had a model on store shelves that was about 90% correct.
Titanium airframe and skin of the SR71. Yes. At full speed it gets very hot. Hotter than a self-cleaning oven(!). Only titanium can operate reliably under those conditions. The skin is actually cooled by fuel flow through it which conversely acts to preheat fuel prior to injecting into the engines. Yhe engine inlet cone tips also are tipped with the biggest solid castings of iridium ever made. Iridium was the only material that could withstand the tip heat and resist erosion from exposure to continuous air impact. For sustained operation at Mach 6 materials beyond titanium need to be used such as carbon-carbon (like in advanced brake pads) and/or Cer-Mets which are ceramic-metal composites for the highest temperature surfaces. Fuel flow through the skin would most certainly also be needed for the SR72 airframe. Skin temperatures at Mach 6+ will most certainly exceed 1000°F. Also, EUV lasers are mega-wicked!! (And very compact).
The stealth fighters as well. Their "skin" must be replaced after each flight as it literally melts and drips off unto the runway after landing. They use "classified" metals which I believe are clearly non-earthly. Oh, and the A-10 and the SR are the only defense against hostile et crafts even though none of them are hostile and are just defending themselves by hacking the munitions to send them back to sender. Can't do that with depleted uranium dumb rounds. Had nothing to do with the love for that platform. It was strategic. Just read and review the reports from the Italian military in the 90's. That's how we know and it didn't come out until they tried to retire the platform and just like any other inept gov the left hand was not talking to the right hand.
5:30 - You're not entirely wrong, there... The SR-71 was preceded by the U-2, which, in turn, began development after a modified B-57 proved inadequate to spy on Russia. The same day the first U-2 mission was (successfully) carried out, engineers at Lockheed (which had made the U-2 as well) declared that the U-2 would remain adequate for its mission profile for another 18 months, at best, and very nearly 18 months later, Gary Powers was shot down over Russia in a U-2, but, by that time, the SR-71 was already well into development. Throughout the 80's and 90's, there were rumours of an aircraft in development meant to replace the SR-71, allegedly called "Aurora" (some sources reported it might have been meant as a bomber instead or as well), but, with the retirement of the SR-71 without losses to enemy fire and its role being taken on mostly by satellites, the Aurora would-be spy plane, if it ever entered development, never entered service. So, much like you said, even as the current big thing enters service, the next big thing enters development. 10:30 - I think the Mach 20 figure needs some context. Unlike the SR-71 (or SR-72, or any other very fast airplane), the HTV 2 doesn't achieve its speed thanks to the output of its engines; instead, it rides on an intercontinental ballistic missile booster up to the very top of the atmosphere, then glides down, powered only by gravity, but with a very, very long way to go down, which gives it time to accelerate to such ridiculous speeds as Mach 20. Mind you, in the context of ICBM warheads, such speeds are nothing new (except ICBM warheads cannot be steered on their way through the atmosphere). 16:58 - "Spirit" is the nickname of the B-2; "bomber" is its function. It's no less correct to say "B-2 Spirit" than it is to say "B-2 bomber", because the B-2 is a bomber nicknamed "Spirit".
I was project lead at Lockheed Martin over multiple projects. There is a lot of stuff that the rest of the world don't know that we have. It would blow your mind.
@@Jcs57 My father was a Director for Ben Rich at Skunk Works in Burbank, ca and yes they did build some really interesting vehicles. He passed at 98 just a couple of years ago. No little green men or Flying Saucers
my brother spent 26 years in the air force as a mechanic....one of the planes he repaired was the sr71. it was amazing i would like to see you react to some American comedians. expecially Steve Wright first appearance on Johnny Carson Tonight Show....i think in 1993 or so also try But Abbott and Lou Castello "Who's on First?" that one was done in the 1950's and it is a true classic. I would be interested to see how American comedy translates into your language and sense of humor.. thank you for all your wonderful posts..expecially the on on the American National Anthem...it was absolutely beautiful. thank you for sharing your emotional feelinng that we were feeling too
or increasingly was anyways the usaf tho kept tacking +1s to the point lockheed martin felt the need to call them out on it hopefully their new "modular" push is going the way it seems to be going, modularizing the f-22 first rather than trying to do it all in a brand new airframe. the navy went full "modular" with the littoral combat ship and costs skyrocketed bc it was a pointlessly brand new design.
Andre, "Mach" is just a fancy (and quick) way of saying "Speed of Sound." So Mach 1 is the Speed of Sound, Mach 2 is twice that and so forth. Travel below the Speed of Sound is called Sub-Sonic. Travel above the Speed of Sound is called Supersonic. And Travel above Mach 5 is called Hypersonic. And requires a different kind of engine than just a regular jet engine. Hypersonic flight requires a Ramjet. Even the Top Gun Maverick "Dark Star sequence" made mention of this. Basically what happens is that at Mack 5, the air becomes as such that a regular jet engine doesn't have the physical ability to compress the air enough to ignite it within the engine to create the thrust. A ram jet does. Or something to that effect. I'm not expert on the differences between jet engines and ram jet engines, but what I do know about the technology, it has to do with the way the air at those speeds changes whilst moving thru it, so a different kind of engine is necessary to propel the craft at those higher speeds. Most Air-to-Air missiles only Travel at around Mach 3 or so. That's why they are used to shoot down distant aircraft because they can get there way before the targeting aircraft can to get within gun range. Most fighter jets fly at subsonic speeds when they are just cruising around or engaged in dogfights, so when you can launch a projectile that is somewhat guided, at long range, and it'll get there wag before you will, then that's why when air-to-air missiles were invented in the 50s and 60s, it was a game changer.
@@Majorpain32677and the us has since developed a missile defense system that can handle a large scale ballistic missile attack. for a while, the pentagon was scared about highly maneuverable hypersonic warheads, but they've started settling down and hinting that things have improved in that area as well
@@dead-claudianot only that but there’s some serious discussion going on that question if Russia or China even HAVE functional nuclear weapons. Both of them have a long history of acting like they’re a lot stronger than they actually are, and the recent war in Ukraine has shown that a lot of what Russia has is… low quality and poorly maintained we’ll say. And recent events in China have been suggested that stuff isn’t much better over there…
@@dead-claudia At this point, at least as far as is publicly known, we're not confident that we can reliably shoot down incoming hypersonic missiles. I'm reasonably certain somebody somewhere is at least attempting to develop the ability to do so, because of course they are; but there is no significant public information about how that effort is going. (Of course, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence; it is well known that the American military-industrial complex often keeps new stuff top secret for as long as it is still militarily relevant if possible, or until it can no longer be hidden for whatever reason. So it is plausible that the capability may already exist, and we just don't know about it yet.)
In the 80's the SR 71 capabilities were listed for a short time as M 5 with safe ejection over M 3 and it carries 2 internal missiles with anti-satellite capability. Also the TV show " The Six Million Dollar Man" opens with NASA's hyper speed glide body crash caught on camera in the 60's. Premise was that $ 6 Million could put the pilot back together. A believable amount in the 60s. 😂
In my younger days, my ex was in the Air Force and the SR-71 was in a hanger for the show. It was awesome and to see another SR series is like you said terrifying and awesome at the same time.
You never hear about this until it is released because they had such strict protocols for top-secret stuff. It is in a room not connected to the internet. All the data, computer updates, new software, etc, is moved through CDs. You aren't allowed to bring any tech with you in the rooms they are in, except medical devices, obviously, but it was approved. The people who see top-secret information are vetted pretty intensely. They sign a contract saying they can't talk about it. They have unique techs that repair stuff in the room it is very heavily controlled. I worked with Aerojet Rocketdyne for 3 years. They make military rockets, missiles, and other equipment. They also made most of the rockets for Apollo missions. I was really cool to talk to people from like the DoD or NASA. Lockheed was trying to buy them a few month before I left the FTC took the merger to court and Lockheed backed out they didn't wanna deal with the headache. It would of made them easily the largest defence contractor in the world by a large margin.
Another comment about SRs an similar technologies: They are intended to Prevent war by keeping close tabs on any opponent. Then, if that fails, to provide intel for combat operations. But the first mission is actually conflict prevention...by keeping everyone "honest".
I was stationed at RAF Alconbury in England from 82-84, I was a part of the Air Defense Forces, we had an SR-71 based there in a remote hanger and it only flew at night. One of the most impressive aircraft I’ve ever seen along with the TR 1, successor of the U2 spy aircraft. The 71 I saw takeoff once and it was impressive. The Darkstar would be unreal!
You're absolutely right that there's things we don't know about. Most of the luxuries we enjoy these days, things that used to be science fiction, are trickled down tech from the military.
2:00 "so.. they thought this wasn't a thing... then it was a thing... now it's the next big thing...?" Me: Yeah, I thought that was how everything worked... LOL
First flying wing design I know of was the Ho-229. There's probably earlier designs as well, but the B2 spirit isn't the first or even the 5th flying wing design.
The channel "Not What You Think," did a great piece on this project. As did Simon Whistler's "MegaProjects," channel. The espionage that went into just procurement was mind-boggling!
When they first introduced one of the stealth bomber, a colonel was taking questions. A reporter asked" is it wise to let out enemies know about our newest weapons? The colonel replied if you know about it, we are 30 years beyond that."
AFAIK, there hasn't been any recent announcement regarding the SR-72. The last time Lockheed said anything about it was back in 2018, when they said that the expect to have a flying prototype in 2025. A lot could have changed since then.
To put this in perspective Mach 6 = 4,603.61 miles per hour or 7,409 kilometers per hour. As my Grandaddy used to say after making a point…”Put that in your pipe and smoke it.”
If you should ever find yourself in Seattle, they have an incredible museum of flight. They have many aircraft like a Concorde and Air Force One you can actually walk through. They also have an SR-71 with a drone attachment in one of its galleries. You can easily spend half a day there.
Never knew there was another plane museum we have one in DC called the air and space museum Its mostly WW1 WW2 planes and NASA stuff There's an IMAX theatre in there too
@@Davanillaguerrilla The one in Seattle is huge. Special gallery for just WW1 & WW2 planes. They even have the first 747 used to test before production.
I am not joking when I say this... The sr72 'DarkStar" is the almost exact (if not the exact shape) of my favorite fold of Paper Plane in grade school. It's not far fetched to believe that in some sub parallel "as above so below" type of way.. This machine is a direct, and I mean a unilaterally direct symptom of paper plains as far as its physical design..
iwas a 202 Soviet analyst for 14 years stationed at RAF Chicksands we had the FLR 9 Elephant cage for listening. Also was ground support Fir SR71 17976 17978
You're being fooled into the movie Top Gun. Yes the may be a replacement for the 50+ year old plain, the SR 71, A 12 and M 21/D21. More likely than not it will be a drone. As hypersonic craft are outside human endurance.
DarkStar is available to fly in Microsoft Flight Sim. I am Ex navy and used to work with fighter jets and love all things military aircraft. I've seen military vehicles I can't even explain living around military bases.
A few items you might be interested in and you should look into, the new class of aircraft carriers to replace the Nimitz Class with the Gerald Ford Class. the GF CVN-78 is already operational. The JFK CVN-79 is built and being fitted. The Enterprise CVN-80 I think is being built ATM. The Doris Miller, CVN-81 is planned for Jan. 2026 and a non named one also scheduled to be built towards the end of the decade. Plus, the US has an additional 9 flat tops AKA Helicopter Aircraft Carriers but they also use VTOL F-35 and they are probably as big or close to the the ones UK, Italy, Japan and some other countries use. Also, you should look into the the SR-91 Aurora and what Elon Musk's X1 fighter jet is working on. Don't know how true it is but some say it might defy gravity but I will believe it when I see it.
B-2 Spirit is a Bomber just as the F-15 Eagle is a fighter. Spirit is the name of the aircraft, bomber is the type of aircraft. I can’t imagine how hard English is to learn by people from other languages. I applaud anyone who learns English, I wish my old brain was smart enough to learn another language.
Yeah with our new standard rifle and belt fed variant being approved, our infantry will one day all be pretty much holding the destructive power of a heavy mg like the M2 Browning being able to punch through walls and light to possibly some medium armored targets. Then body armor doesn't exist. They are taking the power at the trade of it being a little heavier really well. They think they just need to hit the gym a bit more for a gold standard platform.
I believe this a technology demonstrator, or simply a research project onto hypersonics. The SR71 was retired for the simple reason that satellites, and now LO UAVs can do the recce mission better and safer. The SR71 is really 1950s tech, which is why it required a crew.
It is real. I’ve heard the sonic booms from a couple of test flights living close to an Air Force base, and only seen its weird Chem trails. It must use some type of pulse engine, or those were just air disturbances in the atmosphere when it broke the sound barrier multiple times. In either case, I’ve never seen or heard of any other air craft like it.
Reggie W . worked at General dynmastics in Fort Worth , Texas working on these aircrafts till he retired and passed away from cancer and his dad Larry W . my deceased husband was a master electrician there in which he lost some of his hearing from the loud sound from these aircrafts .
They've been testing the hypersonic replacement for the sr71 since at least the early 00's. Used to be known as project Aurora, and is suspected to be responsible for a series of "air quakes" over the southwest U.S. About time they confirmed to the public.
Check out the North American X-15. Flew in 1959. The X-15 has flown up to Mach 6.7, the difference in the X-15 and The SR-71 is that the X-15 was essentially a rocket with wings. Once the rocket was turned on it couldn’t be shut off, it had to run until the fuel ran out. The rocket engine had been at 100 percent thrust of 57,000 pounds for 84 seconds, and the whole flight from launch to touchdown had taken a mere 11 minutes and 28 seconds. Ultimately, the highest Mach number of 6.7 achieved by pilot Bill Knight and the and highest altitude of 107,960 meters (354,200 feet)
Think about this info. A Jet aircraft (SR-71)that can have sustained controllable flight and a rocket plane that can reach Mach 6.7. All built and flown in the 1950’s. Imagine what they have tucked away with 60 years or R&D and materials breakthroughs having passed.
This is a BEAST. Yes it's very real, very. Money well spent for the safety of America and our Alies. Thank You so much for reacting to this video. Sending You and your family a Blessed Evening.
The Xb is a small shuttle like craft that orbits earth I think it took the place of the sr71 since it is actually a spacecraft that can take pictures from space and maneuver to where it us needed quickly then return to earth to refuel.
I can not say where I got my information, but my source was very knowledgeable and informed. The SR-71 would do in excess of Mach 3.5. That speed would only happen if the bird was shot at by a missile. The SR=71 was developed back in the 1950's.
take a look if you can find info about US huge drown swarms ---- China just did a 7k swarm w/ choreography of llights on the drowns to produce a Dragon + mountains ---- very impressive to China's alignment w/ such a creature to awe other nations ----- i'll try an eagle -- maybe Franklin's turkey!!
You're right! Anything revealed in technology means its obsolete and have way more advanced things working real time. We are seeing decades old technology
I can't say with even a smidgen of certainly, but I'm pretty sure that I know 2-3 people who work for Skunk Works. All 3 work for top secret military contractors on top secret projects. All any of the 3 are able to tell anyone is they work for a military contractor, and that's it, but all three make absolute bank $$$$.
The Mach 20 HTV2 was actually lost on one test. Some believe that it possibly was so fast that it started skipping across the outer edges of our atmosphere.
@dead-claudia I remember that one was tracked to impact. During the course of the other flight, it was lost by the tracker mid flight. I don't think it was ever determined what actually occurred.
apparently there's rumors the sr-71 can in ideal atmospheric conditions be pushed to mach 4, and one general in a book disclosed him flying it in excess of mach 3.5 in libya. also, the publicly stated top speed for it is really only its maximum cruise speed, not its true top speed. it's not hypersonic tho and simply isn't designed to handle the temperatures an aircraft flying hypersonic speeds would experience.
I love how thrilled you get about anything American, especially the military ❤
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YA bit sucks they bought off our politicians here in Canada in the 50s and killed our military industrial companies. we were superior up till that point. the Avro Arrow would've dominated for a decade, but instead we had US made missiles that did squat.
You wouldn’t know, you’re just a child
True, and he might go crazy every time the russians come up with something that looks like it came from a scrapyard but does the exact same job of an american Hight tech multi-millions project.
@@1individeo Russia has nothing that compares to the US military capabilities. Every time Russia thinks it has the upper hand, the US smashes them back down.
I'm a retired US Air Force veteran. I was an ELINT Analyst (Electronic Intelligence), and I was stationed at Raf Mildenhall, Detachment 4, 9th SRW, working with the SR-71. I was stationed there 1982 through 1985. Depending on what occurred during missions, my report could land on the president's desk. I met Prince Charles, now king, when he visited our unit, and I gave him a briefing on my job. It was one of my favorite assignments. I have so many great memories!
My father in law was a colonel with the AF, and all the men in my family, going back to the Revolution fought in wars, making the military their career.
God Bless you for your service.
Thank you for serving our country Sir.
I thought we were supposed to be separate from England after our revolution, and that England's monarchy was just symbolic. What great lies we were told!
@@dingus6317we work very closely with them but don’t share everything.
I'm jealous also a born geek and a army veteran 63m Bradley mechanic. I plexiglass sealed functioning wind tunnel and had the SR-71 model as a test plane for my 10th grade science project. Battle I'm sooooo jealous lol
Just to give you a little glimpse into how the US does things with releasing info on weapons systems. When the US finally revealed the F-117 Nigththawk, the first stealth fighter, duting the first Gulf war in 1990, it had been operational for 7 years, and the F-22 had already been 10 years into its development cycle.
all i've seen related to this seem to suggest it's been operational for less, if at all
if i'm remembering the plane correctly (might be confusing this with the usaf's ngad) lockheed martin's skunkworks had been advertising the engine publicly while looking for a buyer and only took that down sround 2018.
Actually the stealth fighter was revealed before that it was the one that crashed and there was a satellite blackout across 4 states I watched it I got to see one on the deck of an aircraft carrier in Hawaii during the 50th of Pearl harbor I was 15' away it was guarded by 3 Air Force guys with loaded m16s spoke with one and joked "Would actually use that if I ran over to touch the plane?"....he laughed
I live near the National Air Space Museum and brother, I never tire of drooling over the SR 71 on display. It was light years ahead of its time. The Dark Star will be unimaginable!!!
The Dark Star has already been built and is now retired. It was a Drone! Google RQ-3 lockheed drone.
It’s been rumored for several years. When the last SR71 went into a museum in DC 20 years ago, it broke several records flying from California to the east coast. It will probably be several years before we know the truth about its capabilities such as top speed and maximum altitude.
You are absolutely right at 5:32. I don't know how accurate it is but I once heard of someone tell a story about a US general that was at a party and someone overheard him say something along the lines of "If we've shown it to the world, it's already obsolete." Now I don't know if that's 100% accurate, but it's probably not far off.
It’s 85% true. It was impossible to hide something like an M-1 Abrams MBT because they were transported by rail and made in the thousands, but stuff made in the tens of, and can fly, or be underwater are much more easily concealed.
I believe it. Declassified tech must be obsolete.
@@CollinAlbert-zt6ccalso, on rare occasion, the us military will intentionally declassify secret tech to psyop other countries. the sr-72 is probably one of those.
It depends. In some cases a military technology gets declassified because it is obsolete, yes; but other times a tech is revealed because it is used in combat and can no longer be kept hidden, or because the press somehow manages to deduce enough about it, that its existence can no longer be denied. The latter is what happened to the F-117: the media managed to obtain decent-resolution photos of it and put it on magazine covers by 1987, so its existence could no longer be denied, and was formally acknowledged in '88. (However, the military did not reveal its true mission profile, and so at the time everyone was calling it "the stealth fighter", because it kind of looked like a fighter, in terms of overall shape and size. Much later, we found out that it didn't actually have any air-to-air capabilities at all; turns out it was really a strike aircraft, and actual stealth fighters came later.)
That sounds reasonable. I was told that alert rosters are just like Air Force aircraft: experimental or obsolete.
My husband was a Boom Operator (he did the inflight refueling) in the USAF from 1987-2007. He LOVED his job! ❤
Love to know what it looked like.
Thank you (him) for serving our country!
@@daniellang6112 thank you; I’ll tell him. ❤️
That’s really cool
I'm pretty sure that the military has other tech that is already at least two generations ahead of what has already been revealed. Mach 20 is 15345.4 miles per hour...
If they dont have it, its a given that someone is either working on it, or doing the planning for it.
it's highly rumored that the actual top speed of the sr-72 is around mach 10, which tracks with the hypersonic flight regime's technical constraints (mach 10 is around when thermals become more important than aerodynamics)
The HTV project was meant for research. When you have a craft moving that fast through atmosphere the aerodynamics change. Dual mode engines could theoretically enable a SR71 successor to be hypersonic, which is 5 or more times faster than sound ASL. We do have lasers capable of being used as weapons or to neutralize weapons but minaturizing them is hard. These spy planes are meant as a platform for cameras and developing them enables us to create new technology, which is the real purpose. At the start of WWII our fighters were crap, but by the end we had aces killing dozens of enemy fighters, because they were piloting advanced aircraft while the enemy didn't improve their equipment.
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FYI, that's Mach 20 at sea level. Typically, Mach numbers for fighter jets is taken at about 50,000 feet which is roughly 660 mph for Mach 1 rather than 767 mph. No aircraft go anywhere near their top speed at low level, let alone sea level, due to the thick, heavy air.
I had the pleasure of working on the SR-71 in 1967. I was floored by the technology that was put into that aircraft and IF the SR-72 is really in production I'm sure it has many things in it's development we will never know about. Good work skunk works!
My father was a director under Ben Rich at Skunk Works. He would fly to Las Vegas and then transfer to a private jet/janet airlines which would take him to Groom. No aliens or flying saucers. Just classified aircraft. FYI, they did build the Aurora.
@@mikeroth7080this is accurate my grandfather also worked at the lake groom installation. He said he had to catch a plane to work, said he couldn't tell me what he was doing but it wasn't aliens it's aircraft testing.
LOL the world doesn't know about the TRUE abilities of the SR 71....
The SR-71 itself wouldn't know it's own capabilities. The J-58s in the configuration used for the A-12 Archangel family are capable of pushing all 4 airframes to a speed at which the thermal heating would be so great, that the titanium used would suffer structural failure and would begin to undergo rapid airframe disintegration. As a result Mach 3.3-3.4 is the limit for the entire Archangel family due to heating. You want to go faster you better pray for a very cold day up there at 80k+ feet.
NASA still has a couple
It's always more than admit. Darkstar pushes m 8 supposedly. Kinsile missile Mach 5.
@@giannagiavelli5098 probably more that Mach 8. Lockheed engineers said they delayed the SR-72 program by 2 years because they realized they could go much much faster than the original goal of Mach 6. The question is still how much faster but ever since the program went dark in 2020/2021 Lockheed and the Air Force have been really really hush lips on the capabilities and development of the 72.
Yup the actual top speed is classified and in a conversation the pilot that broke the record said that they never get over 50%
I saw a SR71 at the Air Force museum in Dayton, Ohio.
Fun fact: SR 71 pilots are flight rated astronauts. They wear astronaut's wings on their uniforms.
Yep. My friend Ken flew one. Pretty impressive.
and the skin of the plane must be replaced after each flight as the friction from the air causes it to melt. The same with the Stealth Fighters. The skin of the plane actually melts and even has to be removed from the runway itself after each flight. So weird. I never realized that. The stealth fighters literally drip as if wet.
Oh, and tmi...but the real reason the A-10 was not retired is due to the fact that it was the only aerial platform that can shoot down "hostile" et crafts even though none of them are actually hostile. They just hack the munitions and send it back when fired upon. Which, of course, you can't do with the depleted uranium rounds used in the A-10. But, we're not supposed to know that ;)
One thing about the American Miliary. If you are seeing the SR 2 now, they already have the SR-5 on a drawing board. It is a certainty that the SR 3 components are being tested.
When we're shown weapons and aircraft like this, the military already has some top secret tech in the works.
Lmao facts 💯 I think most if not all these UAP and UFO sightings is our own military with their new projects testing
Andre, they have an SR-71 Blackbird on display at a few museums. One that I am familiar with is the Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson Arizona. Also near Tucson is a deactivated Titan missile at the Titan Missile Museum. There is an unfueled missile in its silo, with no warhead. While I am on it, the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum is in Tucson and has won numerous awards. The Air Force AMARG "boneyard" is there as well, with well over 1000 military aircraft.
I stood underneath one in 1999, at an aircraft carrier converted into a museum (alongside a Growler cruise missile submarine) in New York.
Most of them must be out in the desert (out west) Sr71 is one of the planes I've never seen in person
Along with the f117 and B2
I saw one in Dayton, Ohio.
There is an SR-71 parked at the main entrance of Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama.
USS Alabama Battleship State Park in Alabama has one as well. She's quite the bird.
My husband was an aerospace engineer back in the 60s who worked on the gyroscope, which stabilized the spy camera to prevent vibration and distortion to the film mechanism. After every flight, this mechanism had to be monitored and balanced for its next flight. He also lived on an aircraft carrier in the Bay of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam, only to service the SR-71. A few years back, this patented mechanism was finally released to the public. Just think about the number of other contributing companies with top scientists and engineers in America, working in coordination with the military. These products must have added to our GNP in economy terms as well, and still do to this day. The number of products that are required for the Blackbird SR-72 must count in the millions. AMERICA PROUD!
You aren't behind!! Even as an american here in Nevada with one of the best Air Force bases in the nation they don't really show this technology to the public. So it is very impressive I just hope we can use what we have to keep peace instead of creating conflict.
Thank you for the respect you show to our wonderful country. I love videos that make my heart swell even more than usual, with pride. TY 😊🙏🇺🇸
I was stationed where the SR-71 spy flights were conducted in 1968 during the Vietnam conflict. I got to see on air traffic control center radar tracking the plane on radar. Saying it was fast in an understatement.
My father and grandfather were both Aerospace Engineers that helped design and work on aircraft for NASA and all of our military branches, as well as submarines, tanks, and other equipment for the military. The most memorable projects I saw my father work on were the Space Shuttle and military planes like this one, including bombers. I also have a brother that is an Aerospace Engineer and has worked on/is working on military and commercial projects.
My husband Larry W . a master electrician also worked at NASA and Reggie W only worked at General Dynmastics in Fort Worth , TX .
As a machinist I cut a lot of Titanium.
It's a crazy material thats super strong but incredibly light.
The machining characteristics are some of the weirdest materials I've ever come across.
While it's super tough and hard it actually machines very easy but it does require a lot of insert changes due to its abrasive qualities.
They make industrial diamond tipped inserts that dont really have a sharp edge and basically push the material out of the way.
Back when they were making the SR-71, they had to invent those sorts of methods.
@@vladyvhv9579 the funniest thing about the SR71 is the fact that the titanium used for it, most of it was covertly sourced from the russkies themselves, by a front, cia-run companies.
Interesting I had been told it was “sticky” and difficult to machine.
@@bluglass7819
Not really.
It does wear out inserts very quickly though and getting it to chip can be a problem.
If I had to describe it i'd call it gummy and it's kinda hard to find the perfect speed and feed rate to get it to chip.
Definitely not my favorite material to cut.
@@TrulyUnfortunate thank you. I’m making guitar truss rods out of it. I ended up using threaded rod instead of rod because I thought it would be too tough to thread.
This will drop your jaw. This was designed 25 years agao its old technology
25? Probably more like 50 ;) We never see the state of the art in its time. Indeed.
There is a good reason why the SR-72 would use a laser, if it travels at hyper sonic speeds a bullet would actually become a threat to the plane itself because the amount of drag at those speeds would cause it to decelerate back into the plane itself... plus it could also shoot down any attempts of Air to air missiles.
And as a side note mach 3.2 was only the "officially" stated speed it (SR-71) could reach, there is no know top speed.
I met a retired Sr-71 pilot at the Air Force Museum in Dayton. I was chatting with him and said what if Russia had a faster plane? He said they would just push the throttle up slightly just enough to take it back. The top speed was classified even for the pilots.
The first Top Gun movie was partially developed with the US Government to be a promotional piece.
Here we have a similar thing happening again with the Darkstar being featured in Maverick.
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When I was a kid, the government said "there is no such thing as an SR71. The next year, I think it was Monogram Model Co. Had a model on store shelves that was about 90% correct.
Titanium airframe and skin of the SR71. Yes.
At full speed it gets very hot. Hotter than a self-cleaning oven(!). Only titanium can operate reliably under those conditions. The skin is actually cooled by fuel flow through it which conversely acts to preheat fuel prior to injecting into the engines. Yhe engine inlet cone tips also are tipped with the biggest solid castings of iridium ever made. Iridium was the only material that could withstand the tip heat and resist erosion from exposure to continuous air impact.
For sustained operation at Mach 6 materials beyond titanium need to be used such as carbon-carbon (like in advanced brake pads) and/or Cer-Mets which are ceramic-metal composites for the highest temperature surfaces. Fuel flow through the skin would most certainly also be needed for the SR72 airframe. Skin temperatures at Mach 6+ will most certainly exceed 1000°F.
Also, EUV lasers are mega-wicked!! (And very compact).
The stealth fighters as well. Their "skin" must be replaced after each flight as it literally melts and drips off unto the runway after landing. They use "classified" metals which I believe are clearly non-earthly. Oh, and the A-10 and the SR are the only defense against hostile et crafts even though none of them are hostile and are just defending themselves by hacking the munitions to send them back to sender.
Can't do that with depleted uranium dumb rounds. Had nothing to do with the love for that platform. It was strategic. Just read and review the reports from the Italian military in the 90's. That's how we know and it didn't come out until they tried to retire the platform and just like any other inept gov the left hand was not talking to the right hand.
Also my uncle has worked for Pratt & Whitney since I was born in 79. He never spoke of work.
Absolutely Pratt & Whitney was in my hometown Southington Connecticut and all my friends worked there very quiet they really spoke of nothing
@@ThomasSlodzinski From Massachusetts right over the Connecticut border. He probably worked at that facility when he wasn't traveling
@@mumblez22 awesome It's a Small World
Yea my uncle worked for Lockheed while the F-22 was being developed and he would never tell us anything, except for an occasional....... classified
5:30 - You're not entirely wrong, there... The SR-71 was preceded by the U-2, which, in turn, began development after a modified B-57 proved inadequate to spy on Russia. The same day the first U-2 mission was (successfully) carried out, engineers at Lockheed (which had made the U-2 as well) declared that the U-2 would remain adequate for its mission profile for another 18 months, at best, and very nearly 18 months later, Gary Powers was shot down over Russia in a U-2, but, by that time, the SR-71 was already well into development. Throughout the 80's and 90's, there were rumours of an aircraft in development meant to replace the SR-71, allegedly called "Aurora" (some sources reported it might have been meant as a bomber instead or as well), but, with the retirement of the SR-71 without losses to enemy fire and its role being taken on mostly by satellites, the Aurora would-be spy plane, if it ever entered development, never entered service. So, much like you said, even as the current big thing enters service, the next big thing enters development.
10:30 - I think the Mach 20 figure needs some context. Unlike the SR-71 (or SR-72, or any other very fast airplane), the HTV 2 doesn't achieve its speed thanks to the output of its engines; instead, it rides on an intercontinental ballistic missile booster up to the very top of the atmosphere, then glides down, powered only by gravity, but with a very, very long way to go down, which gives it time to accelerate to such ridiculous speeds as Mach 20. Mind you, in the context of ICBM warheads, such speeds are nothing new (except ICBM warheads cannot be steered on their way through the atmosphere).
16:58 - "Spirit" is the nickname of the B-2; "bomber" is its function. It's no less correct to say "B-2 Spirit" than it is to say "B-2 bomber", because the B-2 is a bomber nicknamed "Spirit".
I was project lead at Lockheed Martin over multiple projects. There is a lot of stuff that the rest of the world don't know that we have. It would blow your mind.
Find it hard to believe that a project lead in such a security intense venture would post anything about their business
Cap but cool story
@@Jcs57 My father was a Director for Ben Rich at Skunk Works in Burbank, ca and yes they did build some really interesting vehicles. He passed at 98 just a couple of years ago. No little green men or Flying Saucers
my brother spent 26 years in the air force as a mechanic....one of the planes he repaired was the sr71. it was amazing
i would like to see you react to some American comedians. expecially
Steve Wright first appearance on Johnny Carson Tonight Show....i think in 1993 or so
also try But Abbott and Lou Castello "Who's on First?" that one was done in the 1950's and it is a true classic. I would be interested to see how American comedy translates into your language and sense of humor..
thank you for all your wonderful posts..expecially the on on the American National
Anthem...it was absolutely beautiful. thank you for sharing your emotional feelinng that we were feeling too
"Mach 20.....this is getting out if hand!"😂
The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program is intended to replace the F-22 Raptor
or increasingly was anyways
the usaf tho kept tacking +1s to the point lockheed martin felt the need to call them out on it
hopefully their new "modular" push is going the way it seems to be going, modularizing the f-22 first rather than trying to do it all in a brand new airframe. the navy went full "modular" with the littoral combat ship and costs skyrocketed bc it was a pointlessly brand new design.
Andre, "Mach" is just a fancy (and quick) way of saying "Speed of Sound." So Mach 1 is the Speed of Sound, Mach 2 is twice that and so forth. Travel below the Speed of Sound is called Sub-Sonic. Travel above the Speed of Sound is called Supersonic. And Travel above Mach 5 is called Hypersonic. And requires a different kind of engine than just a regular jet engine. Hypersonic flight requires a Ramjet. Even the Top Gun Maverick "Dark Star sequence" made mention of this. Basically what happens is that at Mack 5, the air becomes as such that a regular jet engine doesn't have the physical ability to compress the air enough to ignite it within the engine to create the thrust. A ram jet does. Or something to that effect. I'm not expert on the differences between jet engines and ram jet engines, but what I do know about the technology, it has to do with the way the air at those speeds changes whilst moving thru it, so a different kind of engine is necessary to propel the craft at those higher speeds. Most Air-to-Air missiles only Travel at around Mach 3 or so. That's why they are used to shoot down distant aircraft because they can get there way before the targeting aircraft can to get within gun range. Most fighter jets fly at subsonic speeds when they are just cruising around or engaged in dogfights, so when you can launch a projectile that is somewhat guided, at long range, and it'll get there wag before you will, then that's why when air-to-air missiles were invented in the 50s and 60s, it was a game changer.
The US builds to counter what the enemy CLAIMS they have,,, which is overkill... the Enemy ALWAYS claims more than what they are capable of
Enemies have nukes that's the unfortunate equalizer everyone loses
@@Majorpain32677and the us has since developed a missile defense system that can handle a large scale ballistic missile attack.
for a while, the pentagon was scared about highly maneuverable hypersonic warheads, but they've started settling down and hinting that things have improved in that area as well
@@dead-claudianot only that but there’s some serious discussion going on that question if Russia or China even HAVE functional nuclear weapons.
Both of them have a long history of acting like they’re a lot stronger than they actually are, and the recent war in Ukraine has shown that a lot of what Russia has is… low quality and poorly maintained we’ll say. And recent events in China have been suggested that stuff isn’t much better over there…
@@dead-claudia At this point, at least as far as is publicly known, we're not confident that we can reliably shoot down incoming hypersonic missiles. I'm reasonably certain somebody somewhere is at least attempting to develop the ability to do so, because of course they are; but there is no significant public information about how that effort is going.
(Of course, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence; it is well known that the American military-industrial complex often keeps new stuff top secret for as long as it is still militarily relevant if possible, or until it can no longer be hidden for whatever reason. So it is plausible that the capability may already exist, and we just don't know about it yet.)
Not really an equalizer when other countries will just shoot nudes back at you lol@@Majorpain32677
In case you were wondering.. Mach 6 means 6 times the speed of sound or 4,600 miles per hour or 7,400 kilometers per hour.
And if they say it goes mach 6 it probably really goes up to mach 7 or 8
In the 80's the SR 71 capabilities were listed for a short time as M 5 with safe ejection over M 3 and it carries 2 internal missiles with anti-satellite capability. Also the TV show " The Six Million Dollar Man" opens with NASA's hyper speed glide body crash caught on camera in the 60's. Premise was that $ 6 Million could put the pilot back together. A believable amount in the 60s. 😂
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In my younger days, my ex was in the Air Force and the SR-71 was in a hanger for the show. It was awesome and to see another SR series is like you said terrifying and awesome at the same time.
You never hear about this until it is released because they had such strict protocols for top-secret stuff. It is in a room not connected to the internet. All the data, computer updates, new software, etc, is moved through CDs. You aren't allowed to bring any tech with you in the rooms they are in, except medical devices, obviously, but it was approved. The people who see top-secret information are vetted pretty intensely. They sign a contract saying they can't talk about it. They have unique techs that repair stuff in the room it is very heavily controlled. I worked with Aerojet Rocketdyne for 3 years. They make military rockets, missiles, and other equipment. They also made most of the rockets for Apollo missions. I was really cool to talk to people from like the DoD or NASA. Lockheed was trying to buy them a few month before I left the FTC took the merger to court and Lockheed backed out they didn't wanna deal with the headache. It would of made them easily the largest defence contractor in the world by a large margin.
Another comment about SRs an similar technologies:
They are intended to Prevent war by keeping close tabs on any opponent. Then, if that fails, to provide intel for combat operations.
But the first mission is actually conflict prevention...by keeping everyone "honest".
I used to watch the SR-71 at Kadena AFB on Okinawa when i was stationed on Futenma. Amazing
The sr71 is the fastest plane, we know of. And they retired it.
Russia: We have hypersonic missiles.
America: We have hypersonic jets. 😮
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Thank you for reacting to such videos. Still desire piloting F-22 Raptor but enjoy all your fighter jet videos.
Him and his co-pilot. "Speed check".
Real shit look it up or react.
I was stationed at RAF Alconbury in England from 82-84, I was a part of the Air Defense Forces, we had an SR-71 based there in a remote hanger and it only flew at night. One of the most impressive aircraft I’ve ever seen along with the TR 1, successor of the U2 spy aircraft. The 71 I saw takeoff once and it was impressive. The Darkstar would be unreal!
You're absolutely right that there's things we don't know about. Most of the luxuries we enjoy these days, things that used to be science fiction, are trickled down tech from the military.
2:00 "so.. they thought this wasn't a thing... then it was a thing... now it's the next big thing...?"
Me: Yeah, I thought that was how everything worked... LOL
First flying wing design I know of was the Ho-229. There's probably earlier designs as well, but the B2 spirit isn't the first or even the 5th flying wing design.
Yes the SR -71 was a bad ass Jet!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The Dark Star is just next level!
From my understanding crafts like this are always a generation behind.
either that or their true capabilities vastly understated
given how quick the us admitted this plane's existence, i suspect the latter
The channel "Not What You Think," did a great piece on this project. As did Simon Whistler's "MegaProjects," channel. The espionage that went into just procurement was mind-boggling!
I work for the military as an engineer, we're currently working on the death Star. It should be in full force next year 💥
When they first introduced one of the stealth bomber, a colonel was taking questions. A reporter asked" is it wise to let out enemies know about our newest weapons? The colonel replied if you know about it, we are 30 years beyond that."
If military acknowledged it exists its already over 20 years old and its replacement is already in producion.
AFAIK, there hasn't been any recent announcement regarding the SR-72. The last time Lockheed said anything about it was back in 2018, when they said that the expect to have a flying prototype in 2025. A lot could have changed since then.
To put this in perspective Mach 6 = 4,603.61 miles per hour or 7,409 kilometers per hour. As my Grandaddy used to say after making a point…”Put that in your pipe and smoke it.”
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Wow, the SR-71 has always been my favorite aircraft and I had no idea this was even being worked on. Exciting!
You have the AI/autonomous version of this thing equipped with a laser weapon and, basically, you have Skynet. Time to hide.
Yeah because Bob the morning shift barista from Starbucks is the optimal operational target for a billion dollar aircraft. 😂
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10:25 "this is getting out of hand" 🤣💀
I think you’re right about having alien tech.
I don’t know why people are so skeptical.
If you should ever find yourself in Seattle, they have an incredible museum of flight. They have many aircraft like a Concorde and Air Force One you can actually walk through. They also have an SR-71 with a drone attachment in one of its galleries. You can easily spend half a day there.
Never knew there was another plane museum we have one in DC called the air and space museum
Its mostly WW1 WW2 planes and NASA stuff
There's an IMAX theatre in there too
@@Davanillaguerrilla The one in Seattle is huge. Special gallery for just WW1 & WW2 planes. They even have the first 747 used to test before production.
I am not joking when I say this... The sr72 'DarkStar" is the almost exact (if not the exact shape) of my favorite fold of Paper Plane in grade school. It's not far fetched to believe that in some sub parallel "as above so below" type of way.. This machine is a direct, and I mean a unilaterally direct symptom of paper plains as far as its physical design..
Andre, congrats to going over 100k subscribers!
At Mach 6 it means that it can circle the earth in around 2 hours. That people is kick ass.
iwas a 202 Soviet analyst for 14 years stationed at RAF Chicksands we had the FLR 9 Elephant cage for listening. Also was ground support Fir SR71 17976 17978
When he mentioned B2 "Spirit"... I think he was referring to the "original Heritage" of the B2... and not using it as a Name for a type of B2
They also are in the works for an aircraft that has smart skin and can change its shape depending on what you need it to do.
Gotta love that USAF Navy SR72
You're being fooled into the movie Top Gun. Yes the may be a replacement for the 50+ year old plain, the SR 71, A 12 and M 21/D21. More likely than not it will be a drone. As hypersonic craft are outside human endurance.
Grew up in air force base city, the stuff i seen is crazy. Straight out of sci-fi movie. And that was a fraction of what was there
DarkStar is available to fly in Microsoft Flight Sim. I am Ex navy and used to work with fighter jets and love all things military aircraft. I've seen military vehicles I can't even explain living around military bases.
A few items you might be interested in and you should look into, the new class of aircraft carriers to replace the Nimitz Class with the Gerald Ford Class. the GF CVN-78 is already operational. The JFK CVN-79 is built and being fitted. The Enterprise CVN-80 I think is being built ATM. The Doris Miller, CVN-81 is planned for Jan. 2026 and a non named one also scheduled to be built towards the end of the decade. Plus, the US has an additional 9 flat tops AKA Helicopter Aircraft Carriers but they also use VTOL F-35 and they are probably as big or close to the the ones UK, Italy, Japan and some other countries use. Also, you should look into the the SR-91 Aurora and what Elon Musk's X1 fighter jet is working on. Don't know how true it is but some say it might defy gravity but I will believe it when I see it.
B-2 Spirit is a Bomber just as the F-15 Eagle is a fighter. Spirit is the name of the aircraft, bomber is the type of aircraft. I can’t imagine how hard English is to learn by people from other languages. I applaud anyone who learns English, I wish my old brain was smart enough to learn another language.
Sincerity is the way of Heaven. The attainment of sincerity is the way of men.
Yeah with our new standard rifle and belt fed variant being approved, our infantry will one day all be pretty much holding the destructive power of a heavy mg like the M2 Browning being able to punch through walls and light to possibly some medium armored targets. Then body armor doesn't exist. They are taking the power at the trade of it being a little heavier really well. They think they just need to hit the gym a bit more for a gold standard platform.
I believe Mach 6 is somewhere around 3,900 MPH at 85,000 feet if it flies about the same altitude as the SR-71!
Russia had China be bragging about stuff they don't have.
US just turns up and says, "Hold my beer while I show you how this works
I believe this a technology demonstrator, or simply a research project onto hypersonics.
The SR71 was retired for the simple reason that satellites, and now LO UAVs can do the recce mission better and safer.
The SR71 is really 1950s tech, which is why it required a crew.
It is real. I’ve heard the sonic booms from a couple of test flights living close to an Air Force base, and only seen its weird Chem trails. It must use some type of pulse engine, or those were just air disturbances in the atmosphere when it broke the sound barrier multiple times. In either case, I’ve never seen or heard of any other air craft like it.
Reggie W . worked at General dynmastics
in Fort Worth , Texas working on these aircrafts till he retired and passed away from cancer and his dad Larry W . my deceased husband was a master electrician there in which he lost some of his hearing from the loud sound from these aircrafts .
They've been testing the hypersonic replacement for the sr71 since at least the early 00's. Used to be known as project Aurora, and is suspected to be responsible for a series of "air quakes" over the southwest U.S. About time they confirmed to the public.
Check out the North American X-15. Flew in 1959. The X-15 has flown up to Mach 6.7, the difference in the X-15 and The SR-71 is that the X-15 was essentially a rocket with wings. Once the rocket was turned on it couldn’t be shut off, it had to run until the fuel ran out.
The rocket engine had been at 100 percent thrust of 57,000 pounds for 84 seconds, and the whole flight from launch to touchdown had taken a mere 11 minutes and 28 seconds. Ultimately, the highest Mach number of 6.7 achieved by pilot Bill Knight and the and highest altitude of 107,960 meters (354,200 feet)
Think about this info. A Jet aircraft (SR-71)that can have sustained controllable flight and a rocket plane that can reach Mach 6.7. All built and flown in the 1950’s. Imagine what they have tucked away with 60 years or R&D and materials breakthroughs having passed.
This is a BEAST. Yes it's very real, very. Money well spent for the safety of America and our Alies. Thank You so much for reacting to this video. Sending You and your family a Blessed Evening.
The Xb is a small shuttle like craft that orbits earth I think it took the place of the sr71 since it is actually a spacecraft that can take pictures from space and maneuver to where it us needed quickly then return to earth to refuel.
I can not say where I got my information, but my source was very knowledgeable and informed. The SR-71 would do in excess of Mach 3.5. That speed would only happen if the bird was shot at by a missile. The SR=71 was developed back in the 1950's.
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It was introduced in the latest Top-Gun Movie, thought to be A fictional Air-Craft.
The SR71 was developed in the 1960"s. If you know of the latest and greatest, there is already something else you wont know about for 20 years
im impressed that this is a real thing!
You're right! Anything revealed in technology means its obsolete and have way more advanced things working real time. We are seeing decades old technology
I’m just as blown away by these aircraft! and i’m american..
I can't say with even a smidgen of certainly, but I'm pretty sure that I know 2-3 people who work for Skunk Works. All 3 work for top secret military contractors on top secret projects. All any of the 3 are able to tell anyone is they work for a military contractor, and that's it, but all three make absolute bank $$$$.
The Mach 20 HTV2 was actually lost on one test. Some believe that it possibly was so fast that it started skipping across the outer edges of our atmosphere.
fwiw both losses (htv-1 and htv-2) were expected - it was on a path to crash in the pacific
@dead-claudia I remember that one was tracked to impact. During the course of the other flight, it was lost by the tracker mid flight. I don't think it was ever determined what actually occurred.
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The Dark Star is ready to be retired, and that's why you can see a public video about it. The military doesn't release anything that is current.
Mach 3.2 is what they tell the public. It's been verified much faster.
Yeah, if they say the SR-72 will hit Mach 6, it will probably hit Mach 7.5+.
apparently there's rumors the sr-71 can in ideal atmospheric conditions be pushed to mach 4, and one general in a book disclosed him flying it in excess of mach 3.5 in libya. also, the publicly stated top speed for it is really only its maximum cruise speed, not its true top speed.
it's not hypersonic tho and simply isn't designed to handle the temperatures an aircraft flying hypersonic speeds would experience.