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In 2013 Lockheed Martin publicly outlined the SR-72, an unmanned or optionally piloted Mach 6 successor to the SR-71 using a turbine-to-scramjet combined-cycle engine,...
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In 2013 Lockheed Martin publicly outlined the SR-72, an unmanned or optionally piloted Mach 6 successor to the SR-71 using a turbine-to-scramjet combined-cycle engine,...
SR-71 pilot David Peters took off from Kadena at 10 a.m. Saturday, swept the Korean DMZ and Kamchatka, tanked twice, and sat down at...
The Iowa-class battleships cost a fortune to revive for a few years of service. The Air Force buys new F-15s rather than pull Boneyard...
Reviving the SR-71 Blackbird means finding four J58 engines, replacing rodent-chewed wiring, building two JP-7 tankers and absorbing 300 maintenance hours per hour aloft....
The silhouette fits a push Isaacman has made since his second day on the job last December, when he told employees he wanted an...
The theory was sound: lose weight, gain speed and climb rate, force the missile's guidance to recalculate. So a crew tried it in 1968...
The complete SR-72 Darkstar guide: the 2013 reveal, Lockheed's statements, the 2018 vanishing, the Top Gun mockup, and where the Mach 6 program stands...
A demonstrator was supposed to be flying by 2025. Instead: no photos, no leaks, no acknowledgment. What the silence around Lockheed's "Son of Blackbird"...
No missile ever touched it. No fighter ever caught it. And still a third of the fleet was destroyed — by the only force...
The SR-71 Blackbird remains one of the fastest aircraft ever built, and its speed came down to two of the strangest engines ever flown....