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Russia's Nightmare: The SR-72 Could Fly At Mach Six And Bomb Anything
2022-03-30
[1945] Meet the SR-72 Son of Blackbird — The Future of the US Military and Russia or China’s nightmare? : Imagine a future crisis somewhere in Europe or Asia and the United States getting an intelligence-gathering aircraft overhead of the site in an hour and a half. It could become a reality in very short order as the US’ premier aeronautics engineers are making it happen.

The Lockheed Martin SR-72 — also known as the "Son of Blackbird", is the United States’ hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) concept that is expected to have the capability to perform high-speed intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), as well as strike operations.

The aircraft is being developed under Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works or Advanced Development Programs. About 85 percent of the work done there is classified by the government.
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  Why would you name a drone bomber after a stealth plane?
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-03-30 23:48  

#10  "Son" of Blackbird?

Will the DoD have to twist this to comport with noun standards at time of roll-out?

Oh, and like Mullah Richard sez...
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2022-03-30 23:18  

#9  I'll believe Russian military propaganda after they manage to take over Sumy.
Posted by: Slappy   2022-03-30 20:52  

#8  Remember the days when individual Soviet military officers PREVENTED WW III? E.g. Vasily Arkhipov Soviet naval officer 1962, Lt. Col Stanislav Petrov 1983. Had the Russians never opened their archives after the USSR dissolved, we would never had known of these men.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2022-03-30 20:03  

#7  Remember the days when we didn't hear about a 'new' weapons system until after it had been deployed for a while?
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2022-03-30 15:37  

#6  *Yawn* Remember the redesign of the B-1 Lancer from supersonic to low altitude and stealthy? Unless someone has figured a way to change aerodynamics this weapon system is only as lethal as the flying aerial tanker fleet that gets it in range. Basically an IRBM that flies really, really low.
Posted by: magpie   2022-03-30 13:33  

#5  
Posted by: Glerong Speaking for Boskone2326   2022-03-30 10:47  

#4  

I seem to remember a USSR defense scenario against the Black Bird to protect key sites and locations.

Called something like the "Wall of Death"

Where the USSR exploded 5 x 100kt nukes at 36k ft. in front of the flight path Black Bird. (yes like in Dr. Strange Love)

Yep! The Reds were willing to radiate/kill 10's of 1000's of their own people to protect certain key locations and win a Nuke War.

Should we think much has changed with Putin (A LTC USSR-KGB) at the helm?

Posted by: NN2N1   2022-03-30 10:39  

#3  Presumably, you're not doing Mach 6 when you open the bomb bay.... So then is there some vulnerability?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2022-03-30 09:50  

#2  Now put an AI in it and tell it to seek out enemies of the USA and kill kill kill 'em dead. I guarantee you it'll bomb Washington DC.

Skynet smiles.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-03-30 08:38  

#1  [clap clap clapitty claps] for the science, the engineering, the sheer dedication to produce something deadly-ish.

Now put an AI in it and tell it to seek out enemies of the USA and kill kill kill 'em dead. I guarantee you it'll bomb Washington DC.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-03-30 03:35  

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