When SR-71 Flew So Fast That F-15 Eagle's Radar Couldn't See It In 1980s
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- In the 1980s, to give the US Navy's F-14 Tomcats, and the US Air Force's F-15 Eagles practice locating, following, locking on, intercepting, and simulating the firing of the F-14's and F-15's sophisticated Aim-54 Phoenix and Aim-7 Sparrow missiles at a high altitude, high speed target, the SR-71 Blackbird flew "Tomcat Chase" and "Eagle Bait" sorties with them. The intercepts were done in an extremely regulated environment, which enabled the fighter jets to succeed. American fighter pilots were only capable of securing a lock on the SR-71 after the Blackbird crew switched off its protective countermeasures. Even under these carefully regulated flight conditions, the SR-71 was moving so fast that the F-14s and F-15s had severe difficulty achieving an effective SR-71 kill. Unless the SR-71 was damaged, it was nearly impossible to get a lock on it. A speed barrier at 1500 knots was visible on the F-15 Eagle's radar, while the SR-71 was comfortably cruising between 1850 and 2000 knots, thus, the Blackbird was literally nonexistent for the F-15 Eagles.
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That SR-71 still looks like it was built yesterday
Or tomorrow.
Built in the future, flew so fast, it went back in time!!!!!!!!
For me, it still looks like it is built for the future.
Built in the mid 60s. 🤯
@@johnpashayan8607ive always found that highly suspicious, i mean how the hell did they manage that back then
Mission Commander: Okay, how would you like to achieve stealth? We’ve got low and slow, radar absorption, and radar deflection.
Blackbird: Speed.
Commander: That wasn’t one of the options.
Blackbird: Speed.
Commander:
Speed it is
Dam meth birds😂
That was the theory behind the B-58 and XB-70 but it did not work long term as if they see you they can make a missile that can catch you.
Missiles can achieve the speed to attack SR-71. USSR's radar has seen SR-71 many times. SR-71 faced with risks of being attacked and never entered USSR's airspace. China entered US's airspace with very slow balloons and US didn't notice until 2023. I really don't think speed is that important.
"MOAR KNOTS!"
The SR-71. The epitome of
“If you ain’t first, you’re last.”
“If you’re not in tomorrow yesterday your already two days behind”
@@davidburke8682lol rio me I didn't hard enough 5 years agi
LIES it was the A-12 Archangel.
@@kevinerbs2778 uh uh
SR-71 was made by Ricky Bobby confirmed?
Every story about the SR-71 just gets cooler.
And the coolest is the stuff we will never hear
The uncoolness of the comments fortunately balances the whole thing out.
You will understand once you turn 40-50.. If not, no problem there are folks who really like everything military, weapons and killing, if not then there wouldn't be any armies.
@@florkgagga been a minute or two since I was 50.
Never enjoyed the killing side- simply enjoying the aircraft for what it is.
Why try to read into people’s thoughts? Why guess at what their motives or attractions are based upon when it is something that doesn’t involve your direct participation or interaction?
Like here, your own opinions and attributes obviously will have influence to the conclusion you perceive.
Basically, if you estimate there is ten possible motives, you are still 90% apt to miss the mark.
My Dad had involvement around these aircraft and others back in the day- hence my attraction towards them.
well google about serbia.
Good comment, though if you’re going to get philosophical, then you might as well also acknowledge the limitations of language communication and self reflection. I can list a bunch of descriptions and specs while sharing that I think the Blackbird (which was not a fighter/combat vehicle, right?) or 1960’s cars are cool, but no matter how long the list, the moment they became “cool” in my eyes was merely a whim!
"America is all about speed... hot, nasty, badass speed."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
She was talking about her sex life
@@aberamagold7509good point
@@aberamagold7509 Or perhaps her 💊 habit...
@@aberamagold7509with Franklin or with Amelia Earhart??
Eleanor Roosevelt…poor woman had the face of a horse (for illustrative comparison-no insult meant to horses).
The SR 71 remains one of the most beautiful machines ever built by man.
Yup a beautiful machine that kills people how can you consider that beautiful I mean I get it it's an amazing feat of engineering but beautiful hardlyThere's nothing beautiful about war sir
With maintenance costs like Death Star's
@@carcrash1875
Just like the difference in maintenance cost between a top fuel dragster and a muscle car
Psh. Ever seen a 69 mustang??
@@bbq878 that is definitely a good point
The SR-71 to me is still the greatest plane ever built that we know of.
SR-71s were on an airbase in my hometown. They were something to see.
I have never seen any type of aircraft that looks as badass as the SR-71. EDIT: I shouldn't have made a blanket statement about aircraft. Different aircraft are badass in different ways.
The supposed SR-72 Darkstar in the new top gun movie is apparently gonna be realistically flying missions by 2025
It's little brothers the B-2 spirit and B-21 raider are pretty sharp looking too.
Maaaaaybe the B-2 Spirit....
f117, yf23, b2 spirit, kingcobra
Nah, the SR-71 has got nothing on my uncle jerry's Cessna.
The SR-71 only needed one evasive maneuver to get by anything else in the sky: _Accelerate._
Indeed
The only thing faster are missiles, but they either can't lock onto or get outrun by the SR-71.
@@stealthslayer13 yeah at that altitude and speed a missile traveling up over 5-10 seconds could easily mean the sr71 is 2-3 miles away by the time the missile reaches it's altitude, nowadays it probably wouldnt work as well due to faster and more manueverable missiles along with better radars and predictive software
The SR-71. We had a plane with stealth technology that could fly at the edge of space and was capable of flying at Mach 4 in the 1960’s.
That’s just fascinating. 😳
Think of what they have now we don't know about
It's only drawback was mass producibility because we all know the 'murican military are an "underfunded" agency.
Mach 3.32 or 2,193 mph was top recorded speed
"Had."
And it had to be built of Titanium to withstand the atmospheric friction.
That SR-71 needs to be updated and put back into service. I've always loved that plane.
It just won't be able to survive in today's modern higher threat environment. Its successor, the SR-72, probably would be able to. But I would still want at least 1 Blackbird to still be flying for airshows etc.
The problem is really the question of what purpose it would serve. They didnt retire it cause it was a bad design. It was because Satellites could do its job more effectively and safer.
What specific task would an "SR-72" be used for that would justify the R&D and production cost?
Nahhh they would have to be rebuilt from the ground up they had a good run 30+ years. You run the risk of metal fatigue thats the reason they were most likely replaced with something even faster
There's literally no reason to have it it's not like we need Recon in the modern day and if we do we can just use drones
Satellites do it better.
I can't fathom how cool it'd be for the pilots of SR72 to cruise at 7000+ kmph.
It wouldn't it is very hard as you need a lot of training only to have the strenght to go at mach 2 if its that hard how about mach 7-10?
@@Panzerkampfwagen_VI995 No, cruising at high speed is a non issue, it does not place burden on your body.
It is the G's that does and that is present during high speed manouvers, acceleration and possibly deceleration if you slow down fast enough from high speeds.
The SR-72 is an unmanned aircraft, unfortunately.
@@ambassadorofreee3859 you pull gs even just flying forward around 1g for going Mach 3
Its crazy how people can get used to such pressure for a long time. For us that are not used to it we wouldnt even be able to go a quarter of what they do.
SR 71 Blackbird was and is the greatest aircraft ever built by man!!
“The radars can’t pick you up if you’re faster than the radar waves”
“… you son of a bitch…”
What the matter, Dillon, CIA got you pushing too many pencils?
Well considering radar moves at the speed of light that isn’t how it’s undetectable
@@ravipatel9974 Shh... let the joke be a joke. just relax
@@ravipatel9974just let it happen, you're not that guy buddy
@@koopspook
What if he's not your buddy, friend?
The main limiting factor to the Blackbird’s top speed is the amount of heat it can withstand. Talking to some of the SR pilots I encountered over the years, the top speed was much higher than Mach 3. If you think about the Atlantic crossing speed record, that plane has to slow down and get fuel from a tanker and still managed around 2200 Mph average speed. That’s Mach 3 + including the fuel stops.
Yeah, according to maintenance accounts it left a triangle of oil and had to be topped off just before fliight due to thermal expansion of like everything at those speeds.
It would be possible to get close to calculateing the blackbirds speed with a time over distance calculation by the distance between stops and the time it took to get there for something thats an atmospheric rocket ship more or less i dont know of any other variables that would need to be accounted for or how
Mach 4.5 plus, ALMOST 100,000 ft ceiling
Tomcats and Eagles thwarted by a Blackbird! Let’s toss in a Hornet, Blackhawk and wait, starting to sound like a Nature story
About Sparrows😁
This story reminds me of a modern F1 race when the Safety Car is out. You see the Safety Car's weight shifting around and drifting out of turns sometimes as it's hitting each turn as fast as possible while the F1 cars are cruising behind and swerving to keep tire temps up, not even trying. lol
It's pretty funny if you're paying attention.
Always wondered why they did the low-speed wiggle. Makes sense lol
Yeah but F1 is rubbish these days... The V10s though.. now THAT was something else 😎
@@massamune70I take it you didn't watch the last race in Canada then? They are much faster than when they were v10s
@@jasongarfitt1147 Sorry but the current cars are rubbish. The ones I experienced live were the V10s. They were epic sounding and so beautifully intimidating. To watch Michael Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen...truly unforgettable. Just my opinion
@@massamune70 oh the v10s definitely sounded better but if you only care about the stopwatch then the new cars are faster
SR-71 lore has it that the airplane was really designated RS, for Reconnaissance Strike, but that President Johnson mistakenly called it the SR when he announced it in 1964; the name stuck and it became Strategic Reconnaissance.
Interesting. 🤔
When accidents become a "that... actually sounds better now that you think about it"
Except for the part where it actually started out as the A-12.
Lore is wrong.
This is in the book Skunk Works by Ben Rich, the man who took over the Skunk Works after Kelly Johnson. Ben started working with Skunk Works on the U2
It never ceases to amaze me... everytime a new tidbit of information about the SR-71 is made public we discover how much far ahead of its times it is/was.
An aircraft which was designed with sliderules!!!
Kudos to Mr. Johnson and his team at SkunkWorks!!
You can say exactly the same about the Concorde.
It was not ahead of its time by definition! So, what do they have now? That will be amazing...
Kelly Johnson, my hero. One of them atleast. Lol
If it’s not, bro, don’t fix it! No other nation ever came up with anything like this, I don’t care how old it is, why not still use it? Or improve it? Can you imagine if they improved the black bird?
Like the 117 it was kept such a secret. The 117 was being flown for 10 years before the public even knew it existed.
Yes, just imagine what they are flying now that we have no clue about. If you haven't read it yet, i highly recommend the book skunk works. It describes the secret building of the 117. Im sure the blackbird was done the same way.
I had the SR-71 model airplane when I was a kid. I was in awe of it. Still am to this day!
I was a crew chief on the SR-71 at Beale AFB back in the 80s. Truly a beast of a jet.
I like that the countermeasure to being fired upon was, go faster.
I worked in the jet shop in the 80’s
@jpjp3873 those runups on the J58s were intense. The whole ground shook all over the base when the afterburner tests were running. I was in 9th OMS 9th AMB at Beale.
@@Sith_dude Yeah, I loved it when I got to go to test cell. I’d like to visit Beale again to see what the area looks like now.
😎👋Maybe You Knew My Father, Thomas Weigel from Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, who was one of the Lead Engineers for the J-58 Engines in the “YF-12A’s” & the “SR-71’s” ???
2 favorite planes. SR71 and the Warthog, representing both ends of the spectrum.
It's amazing how old the Sr71 is and there's nothing today that can keep up with it....the only thing that took it down was budget cuts....MILITARY'S WORST NIGHTMARE
It is definitely my favorite aircraft. It wasn't just money that killed it, it was more advanced satellite photography technology that made a big impact on its demise.
@@Bob-sd7qr still things a plane can do a sat cant.
@@Bob-sd7qr The problem is that satellite resolution is limited by the lens size, and the lens size is limited by how wide a payload we can lift to orbit. So spy satellite resolution hasn't really improved at all in several decades. That's where the SR-71 comes in, as it can take higher-resolution photos. Of course, with Starship on the horizon, we may be seeing larger spy satellites than we've ever seen before which can finally and TRULY read license plates at the Kremlin.
@@andrewyork3869 Agreed!
@@Bob-sd7qr also more modern missiles pose a risk (albeit probably not too major of one) to the SR-71, whereas back when it was in active use it was practically untouchable.
Who remembers the la Tower sr-71 story when they asked for a speed check?
Brian Shul and Walt Watson, gods among men
haha, lovely video. i hope its real.
@@m.a.6020 link?
Seen it about 49 times and now I’m about to make it the 50th since you just brought it up. I’ll link
@@Duality333 please post sir
I remember watching an SR-71 making its retirement flight from Norton AFB back in the 80s. It did a single pass, then turned around, came back and did a high altitude climb.
moved so fast it gained stealth
We call that speedscorting and/or speedtanking
More like, it outpaced the radio waves 😂😂😂😂😂
The F-15 squadron I was in while stationed at Nellis AFB, NV did some of these intercepts. The pilots said that unless you knew where the SR-71's were coming from you had no chance and that they moved so fast they were just a blur through the sky. Two interesting things is that the pilots also said that the SR's top speed is much higher than advertised. The other is that they did these intercepts at about 80,000 feet. The F-15's advertised ceiling is only 60,000 feet.
Intercepts can be accomplished above maximum service altitude, particularly with an aircraft with as high of a thrust/weight ratio as the F15.
The service ceiling is generally "this is the altitude that the aircraft can still properly operate at", not "this is the absolute highest altitude that the aircraft can reach". Something like an F15 could start at (say) 45,000', and start a hard afterburner climb to intercept, letting momentum take them to the required altitude as they start to lose thrust.
SAAB 37 pilots that managed to get head-on locks at the SR-71 over the Baltic sea say pretty much the same thing, it was their ground-air data link constantly providing automatic nav comp tracking updates that enabled it.
Is anyone really dumb enough to think that the gov would be honest about any of our Extreme High-Tech Military Equipment's true abilities?
My Grandpa who was a radar engineer, took part in building the SR-71. He showed me a photograph of him with a group of others standing with the SR-71. He served 24 years in the Air Force and worked for Hughes Aircraft for 15 years, then finally retired. He was an extremely intelligent man and always had the best stories to tell. He was the greatest man I've ever known. I miss you Grandpa.
Did he help with the stealth systems?
You know you have a badass plane when you can outrun the bullets being shot at you
They out ran missiles. Not just bullets.
In 1956 a US Navy F-11 Tiger flew so fast it actually shot itself.
@@txgunguy2766 how?
@@janus2773
The pilot test fired the guns while in a shallow dive.
@@txgunguy2766 wow, i guess that should do it haha
"Do you even READ my Christmas list?!"
The SR-71 is still possibly the most gorgeous military plane ever designed
F35 f22 f15 b2 are up there for me
@fitnesstop112, definitely the kid. But he needs to eat
F4U Corsair is up there.
Designed by hand.
Its defiantly up there, But F-22 is number 1
When I was just a kid back in the 80s, I had all these jets in my model car collection. Read all the books I could find about them too. Pretty freaking amazing and downright frightening what these supersonic weapons of war are capable of.
I remember when they retired the Blackbird, then put it back into use, because they had nothing that could replace it. Then retired it again a decade later
When I was on active duty in the 90s, I heard some of the SR71s on static display at various AFBs only had the engines and crypto taken out, so they could be thrown back into service within 72 hours, if needed. It might have been a USAF urban legend, but I wouldn't bet against it being true.
SR-71: most beautiful jet ever made.
Only ever put a few things on my wall as a sprout. Rachel Welch, Farah Fawcett and that bird.
The ladies were sexy, but that bird was something else.
If Ricky Bobby told aeronautical engineers how to design stealth planes.
“I move so incredibly fast that I become invisible to radar and intercepts”
...i understood that reference
That and radar jamming technology but let's not let facts get in the way of a good story.
When you can go plaid
Ah, space balls, great movie❤
The SR-71 was commissioned in the same year I was born. I’ve heard about this mythical aircraft all my life. I fell in love with it the moment I saw it’s incredible futuristic silhouette as a child in the early 70s. It’s so unlike any craft of any description. The 60s and 70s was a special time in the design of vehicles to break speed and endurance records. From WSC 24H prototype sports cars, to power boats, to military aircraft. It was a great time to be a day dreaming kid, and being wowed by all these amazing machines. Especially whilst growing up in a dirt poor neighbourhood and had nothing but fantasy and dreams to take the edge of the unforgiving savagery of everyday life 🙏🏽
My cousin used to work on Blackbird at Mildenhall and I was lucky enough to go on the base to see it take off from the perimeter track, just stunning.
Well, If the F-15 CAN'T get you, Then you have nothing to worry about
Actually Saab's Viggen did manage to lock on them... a lot of times. It was the best fighter of its time, it also saved their asses.
Americans getting salty in 3,2,1...
Actually, the aircraft you're talking about was having a problem and The Viggen flew with them
@@XimCines About what?? Even if you could see it on radar THERE WAS NOTHING YOU COULD DO ABOUT IT
@@willisix2554 actually not.
You only know the story about the SR71 with failures, I was talking about the many times that the Viggens intercepted the SR71 on frontal course and got a lock on the Blackbird. They even designed systems and tactics to avoid the Blackbird's countermeasures.
Just Google
"VIGGEN Vs BLACKBIRD: HOW SWEDISH AIR FORCE JA-37 FIGHTER PILOTS WERE ABLE TO ACHIEVE RADAR LOCK ON THE LEGENDARY SR-71 MACH 3 SPY PLANE"
Source: aviation geek club
Please be humble.
All 3 of those aircraft are legit iconic, being in your 20’s in the 80’s would have being so badass
We never saw them then we only heard of them 1960s they were built
@@paulmurphy8549 but gen x flew them
Speed is life.
That’s the saying.
One of the coolest aircraft EVER built.
I have years of experience flying an SR-71.
Where did you get this experience?
Ummm... My aunt has one.
The most amazing piece of engineering perhaps ever. This plane seemed like it had magic in it.
If you can't be stealthy enough to be unnotice, you go fast enough to be untouchable.
And the SR-71 decided why not both
Boom
One word hypersonic missiles
@@grapentine739
That's two words...but who passed grade 2, anyway?
@@justplainbrad7713you mean 2nd grade? Grade 2 isn’t used in education. Pretty ironic comment from someone who never gone to school
" He who is First
shall Never be Last "
- Sun Tzu's pool guy
That wasn’t his pool guy, it was the HVAC guy and it goes: - “He who hesitates is last.”
I know because we go to the same barber, although I have a slightly better haircut.
Absolutely the best plane ever!
Next to the F14 Tomcat
50’/60’s tech. Speed!! More speed! So was born the SR-71 Blackbird.
Speed is key
fly fast the enemy will never know you're there
was* Russia might not be able to see a jet flying at mach 3, but the US more than fixed that problem.
Ground radars could see it, SR-71s were fired at by sams
That day they saw 3 sunrises and 2 sunsets while out running the fire being shot at them. Best jet ever made...that we are allowed to know about.
speed is life altitude is insurance
I have a friend who had the same philosophy when driving on the highway. Didn’t work out as well.
I was stationed in Thailand in 72&73. We kept track of the SR-71 on its flights. By far The Fastest thing in the air.
How about the F-111?
@@DavidJosephPhoto Yes. The 111 is fast. But I stand by my statement that the SR-71 is by far the fastest
We know Princess
My ex-FIL was there then doing radar. Said he hit a target with radar, that he wasn't supposed to, and that it just went up, and up, and up. He got very excited because NOTHING could do that! Some officer came in, turned it off, and told him he never saw that.
Watching those SR-71 take off was one of the most amazing things I have every seen. Almost as soon as they are airborne they can have almost a 90 degree climb straight up and then they're gone!
meanwhile the ground was wondering how a speck the size of a sparrow was going mach 1
Try Mach 3+
Ha - a 'sparrow' moving so fast, that air friction set its feathers on fire... kinda like a 'Phoenix'....🤣
@@jeremyfranks7608 Nah, anything claiming to be true stealth would have to be able to misrepresent its own actual speed.
both the SR71 and F15 are beautiful birds !!!
My 3 favorite
SR71 & F15 both so beautiful
And the ugliest, meanest, and scariest plane for anyone on the ground- A-10. So ugly its pretty.
@@hummervs3278 the A-10 is like an ugly baby...still kinda cute !! love it too !!!!
Back in that generation of planes; if a Tomcat couldn't get a lock on you, you were uncatchable. Damn the Blackbird was a fine plane from top to bottom.
It takes a legend to beat the best flying killing machines in history 💪🇺🇲
You never will. At least not a manned aircraft. But I gotta tell ya, I saw a B2 flyover and it gave me chills…
And the legend is..... money....
60yrs old & STILL the baddest muther on the block!
It's truly hard to believe what that group of mad men aka skunk-works
were able to achieve way back when! 🤯 God bless them all, including the Mega Brave, Steely eyed Men who flew that spaceship 🚀🙏💪
It is astonishing that they were able to do this with 1960s technology. Absolutely legendary and it makes one proud to be in the aerospace industry.
@@painteater19 Very Proud indeed!! 💪🇺🇸👍🦅
Beautiful planes. All of them. The SR-71 never gets old. So amazing design and impressive engineering.
The radar could see it but the computer filters out things moving that fast.
Wonder why
@@beezelsubbecause the F-15 wasn't trying to fight anything that fast. A/A radar will also filter out things going "too slow" because it looks like the ground.
Do their radars also not pick up AA missiles? There are plenty of missiles that move faster than the SR-71.
@@ZC.Andrewname one please
@@cannibalcorpse75 You know how to use Google and Wikipedia, don't you? But sure I'll name one, for convenience: the Soviet SAM-5, Mach 4+. There were others, and today's SAM's are much, much faster. People think the SR-71 was faster than any missile, but this is false; it could not be caught due to its combination of speed and altitude. By the time radar picked it up, flying at 80k feet Mach 3+, no missile could ever hope to catch it before running out of propellant. There were close calls however; they almost succeeded a couple times.
Back then ruzzia had just finished perfecting it's bi-plane fighters.
Not even then
This is indeed false. COPE
@@bigmungus4864 found the ruzzian
@@nothingtoseehere1221 found nato bot troll
@@aki-fi3gk i found the conversation i was looking for
I watched a video tour of the cockpit of an SR71 by an old retired pilot of that plane. The fuel mixture that made that plane move so fast and how delicate everything else on that plane was, it was remarkable the pilots and how they could operate a complex machine like the SR71.
My dad was an A-10 Thunderbolt fighter pilot for 25 years and very hard to buy gifts for. This past Christmas we all pitched in n got him a signed limited edition copy of a book by a Blackbird pilot (forget who atm) but no joke this book was like $1300 and my dad was in awe when he opened it. The photographs in it were spectacular. SR71 and the Thunderbolt, my two favorite plans of all-time
The book is called Sled Driver by Brian Shul. He passed away recently. Dude's a total legend
Wow that is so amazingly not at all interesting in any way... no one came here hoping to hear all about you
I love these stories before sleepy times😊
I love them while I am wide awake and the artificial intelligence narrator fucked up pretty much every single sentdnce.
Two amazing, iconic planes: the A-10 Warthog and the SR-71 Blackbird. I hope both will be around for many years to come.
Sr=71 have been retired for a while?
The SR-71 is always my favourite plane💖
So proud to be a American Veteran.
The SR-71 is the baddest of all badass planes ever nothing could touch it
Designed with a slide ruler, no solid modeling, FEA, and not even a hand-held calculator
What a great piece of American Engineering
Hey what is that other smaller aircraft flying next to the SR-71? Anybody know?
From the look of the wing, it looks like a F-15
You talking about the SR 72
@@CommenterZX that’s the other plane?
@@johnyu1750 yea
looks like a second SR-71 at a different angle, or perhaps it's CIA ancestor the A-12.
The SR 71 was SO far.ahead of its time
I know its obsolete... but cant we keep a couple of Blackbirds in the air just because they're so badass?
Satellites do there job now
“You sure do seem to know a lot about it.”
*_“DO YOU EVEN READ MY CHRISTMAS LISTS??!?!?”_*
"Okay we want you to lock on to that Blackbird."
"What Blackbird?"
It's basically faster than their missiles.
Not the AIM54 Phoenix, it travelled at mach 5.
@@jasonrhodes9726 mach 5 plus the speed of the tomcat at launch, either way with a solid fuel rocket, just getting to a matching speed vs target leaves no fuel for last moment course changes
@@danielbarnes7559 I am not sure how good the Phoenix is in a rundown situation. It is for busting bombers before they can get close enough to a carrier battle group to launch anti-ship cruise missiles or the cruise missiles themselves.
@@jasonrhodes9726 yes it could. it outran S-300 missiles. those travel at about mach 8 or 6200 mph.
Its sustained speed vs a missiles sprint speed. the SR-71 would defeat the missile by defeating its energy. a slight turn at the blackbirds altitude is miles difference from down below im talking a few degrees difference in turning.
If the missile was shot at the same/close altitude it would more than likely intercept but being 10,000's of feet off it becomes less and less likely
@@jasonrhodes9726 So we are ignoring that it has been widely, and universally, unofficially reported that the Sr-71 was capable of speeds of at least mach 7 then?
Commander: Hey rookie did you see that?
Rookie: No sir, see what?
Commander: Exactly. Move along.
The Blackbird is such a cool craft. I've always been drawn to it's design
Swedish Air Force was the first country with a radar look on the SR-71 Blackbird..
We sent a picture to Pentagon 😂😂😂
Excuse me? The SR-71 you're talking wasn't flying this fast, cos it had some engine trouble at the time, I guess. So, it's no big deal. The Swedish aircraft will never be able to reach 80,000 ft.
So? Not like they could’ve done anything. Too slow to catch the Blackbird lol
@@awlyouneedtoknow9435they practise internets on it. They flew regaly over here during cold-war and im sure they did not try to have lock on at this time you are talking about.
@awlyouneedtoknow9435 Different incident man. Swedish airforce did escort a SR71 with engine problem but on other occasions the JA37 viggen got radar lock on regular basics, and that was not on "a carefully regulated situation". Google it...
Kelly Johnson was an aeronautical genius
💯
Johnson and Oppenheimer were both genius engineers scientists, AND genius managers/program managers, cat herders. RARE breed
His ex son in law is Gene Winfield, the famous Hot Rodder. Hes still alive and owns a plaque that belonged to Kelly Johnson, has an SR-71 part on it.
@@PhysifistEngineering very cool
And a great American
My father was an Electrical Engineer after WWII and worked on the SR-71 program. He subsequently spent time on the P3C Orion and L-1011 products. I still have all his Dept. of Defense ID and paperwork.
The SR71 is the most beautiful plane ever built imho... First read about it as a child in the 80's, and have been obsessed ever since!
My first encounter with military aircraft was with the SR-71. Back in the 1980s, I had a wall poster in my bedroom with this sweet weapon system!!!
Then I learned about the F-14, F-15, F16, F/A-18, F117, F-22, F-35, and the V-22, which I love!
Absolutely Positively Bodacious
absolutely a dumb post
The SR71 Blackbird was one hell of a great plane. Here we sit more than half a century later and I bet it would still prove nearly impossible to shoot down.
Most badass plane hands down
this was such a bad ass bird, Its a shame they dont use them anymore... long live the skunk works
RIP Brian Shull ❤️
Damn. Didn't realized Brian Shul had passed. Hedid had some interesting stories to tell.
A race around the world, the SR 71 LAP them twice
and even had time to pull over at a BURGER KING and ordered something to eat.
Fred ,yes the fly in was at a Burgerking close to Wuerzburg Germany.
@@don_senilo3313 Did it have the BK Lounge?
so dumb... ugh
60yrs old and still looks more futuristic than the most modern fighter jets/bombers
I saw a blackbird take off in Mildenhall, England. It was incredible. Insta-smile for life upon recollection.
So glad i was able to see this badass thing fly , i was super saddened when it was retired
The Blackbird remains one of the most sophisticated aerial platforms ever created. Most of the information regarding its actual capabilities is still classified. It was a quantum leap of aerospace technology and set the standard for everything which has come after it.
Blackbird's my favourite fighter of all time. That design is so ahead of it's time
It's a strategic reconnaissance plane not a fighter
as one British car host once said: SPEED AND POWERRRR
The SR-71 looks like it would be built 20 years from now. Nothing like it then, now, or tomorrow.
Sled Driver by Brian Schul is a great book. He talks about being an SR-71 pilot.
His LA speed check story is great. Sad he recently passed away, he was a shining example of overcoming adversity.
@@chezman3892 I love that story, lol.
Lockheed promised that an SR72 would be at least twice as fast as SR71. To achieve that it will need either four engines or two combined cycle turbofan/scramjet engines. At Mach 6+, stealthy, it will have to fly at very high altitude, possibley 100,000 feet or more to avoid overheating the skin, and will likely be a drone since it could be capable of acceleration that would kill a human pilot. In additions to reconnaissance is should contain an arsenal of weapons including directed energy weapons therefore probably being large except on radar where it should be virtually invisible. Given on board AI control it should be able to evade any defensive system that can even detect it.
correct
Pretty much every fighter is capable of accelerating fast enough to kill a human they just don't do those maneuvers.
Sr71 the absolute badass plain ever built. One of America’s greatest things ever!!
The higher the colder, the colder the faster!
Then how come the Cameraman got this footage then.
Another Blackbird
Because they let him get footage.
I still love the Blackbird; it will always be one of my favorite planes, even after all of its altitude ceiling and speed records have been broken, though I believe it still might hold some of these, even today.
1 word to describe the Blackbird - Speed
Hard to imagine this was designed and built more than 40 years ago. Such a masterpiece.
Imagine the A-10, F-16, both designed over 45 years ago and theyre still being used and still hard to stop almost 50 years later
@@RW-zh7klThe B-52 is the oldest design still in service, and is predicted to go another 30+ years.