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2019-03-28 Science & Technology

The SR-71 Spy Plane Was So Fast, It Outran Every Missile Fired at It

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Posted by Skidmark 2019-03-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 I cried the first time I saw it.
Such a marvel of technology just crushed me.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-03-28 00:33|| 2019-03-28 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Ditto. Stunning beauty.

Posted by Uleck Spererong9442 2019-03-28 07:24|| 2019-03-28 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Interesting that it was retired years ago and nothing has yet been said about whatever replaced it that allowed that retirement. Must be good.

Posted by Glenmore 2019-03-28 08:59|| 2019-03-28 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting that it was retired years ago and nothing has yet been said about whatever replaced it that allowed that retirement. Must be good.

A victim of redundancy. Photo imaging, coverage, and dynamic system re-tasking have greatly improved. Other unmanned, 'non-air breather' systems have replaced it.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-28 09:09|| 2019-03-28 09:09|| Front Page Top

#5 A pox on everyone involved with its demise. >:-(

Posted by gorb 2019-03-28 09:26|| 2019-03-28 09:26|| Front Page Top

#6 The Blackbird also masked its range and bearing by jamming enemy listening devices with sophisticated electronic countermeasures.

I pushed paper for a while on a ECM project for what was supposed to be the Blackbird. It would 'do everything except cook the pilot's breakfast'. All discrete components - boards, transistors, resistors, capacitors...

Posted by Bobby 2019-03-28 10:39|| 2019-03-28 10:39|| Front Page Top

#7 My older sister was a teacher on Okinawa in the early 70's, said the airbase would shut down and *woosh* in, down and behind locked hangar doors. Caught sight of it a few times...

Posted by magpie 2019-03-28 12:32|| 2019-03-28 12:32|| Front Page Top

#8 An extraordinary work of art, kinda like the B2. Forget about their purpose. They are justified by the beauty.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-28 13:09|| 2019-03-28 13:09|| Front Page Top

#9 re#8: and except for that speed and beauty thingy, one could make the sane claim for the A-10..

Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-03-28 23:14|| 2019-03-28 23:14|| Front Page Top

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