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I know you do the changing thumbnail to see which gets clicked on more, I clicked on the "spy bomber?" But I really wanted to click the "warheads on forheads" but was busy ATM 🤣🤣
US military: "here's a completely improbable idea straight out of sci fi, and here's a blank check, can you make this happen?" Sunk Works: 2 years later: "here ya go"
Thanks for adopting the smoother editing style. I have a headache from writing my PhD thesis and this is the only video in my feed that isn't aggravating it.
Probably unpopular opinion, but I really, really hate the stock video footage with voice over. Would much rather watch a talking head than having an editor lazily search an image for every keyword that's said and plaster that on screen for two seconds.
I mean if you're talking about the general public learning through the official announcement, yes. If you're talking the aviation community, no. They'd had photos of the Tacit Rainbow and Have Blue demonstrators as well as the F-117 for basically the entire history of the program, the testing sites weren't as locked down as they are today, and more than a few crazies went out to the deserts with a good camera specifically looking to get evidence of test aircraft resulting in more than a few articles about the mysterious "F-19" as it was theorized to be called. Somebody also leaked it's existence leaked it to Tom Clancy who bassically describes the F-117 in Red Storm Rising, and there was even a company making model kits for the "F-19" based on leaked info from Have Blue and the pictures of the Have Blue/F-117 from those desert going aviation enthusiasts.
And amazingly almost nobody is noticing that the F-35 just penetrated extremely hostile Iranian airspace to wipe out Iran’s nuclear program. Those were Israeli F-35’s. The US F-35C also just entered combat for the first time wiping out a number of Houthi missile launch sites.
When the airframe and plumbing of the predecessor were made to account for severe thermal expansion from the sheer hotness of speed, I don’t think chilling out is on the books!
Because of the way the US military funds a recruit's school money through various programs, you will find a startling number of college graduates or partial college educated men in combat roles.
People who start fights only do so because they have convinced themselves that they have a winning advantage. It is better to make it known before hand that your dad is bigger then their dad.
Well done, Grunt! I'm a 33 year Aviator (Black Hawk, then a pisspot full of type ratings including the B767) and aviation enthusiast. Rarely, do I see an aviation report that doesn't leave me screaming at the TV! But, in this case you did a really good job getting shit right. With that said, my education ends with traditional jet & turbo fan engines and I know very little about SCRAM jets, but I can vouch for all your traditional engine reporting. HOO-A!!
@@flycatchfulYou can learn about aviation in other ways than watching TH-cam videos and a playlist isnt a good way to even see if someone watched aviation content
@@Fjdjfjsz92938 Of course you can and that is a given. I personally follow aviation related podcasters and their sites follow other related sites. Like I posted the individual who claims he is an aviator leaves a lot to be desired. If he fails to reply than I'll be vindicated.
"Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy’s unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions." - Sun Tzu Speed has always been one of the most important factors in war.
China: "Hey America, we just debuted our new J-35. Are you scared yet?" US: **staring at the latest iteration of incomprehensible stealth tech** "Yeah, I saw, cute copy, kid"
That's a great point. Maybe they'll eject the weapon from the rear like the North American A-5 Vigilante to avoid exposing structurally sensitive surfaces to the slipstream chaos
Not many people remember that even the SR-71 once had a variant built called the YF-12 as a FIGHTER designed to test new look-down-shoot-down missile technologies in the 70’s-80’s. When Reagan was fighting to push the B-1 Lancer bomber development across the finish line - at the same time we had the F-117, and the B-2 already in development - the YF-12 proved that the B1 Lancer would be obsolete before it ever reached production. The capability of shooting down even supersonic low-altitude bombers was done with great ease & accuracy… YF-12 proved that we could fire missiles from the SR-71 long ago. The SR-72 would just be taking this to a new level of capability. As an investor in L-M, I hope we buy lots of them!
Yeah they messed around with a bunch of variants . There was a recon drone launcher version that shared a similar engine that could have easily been a super sonic nuclear cruise missile
Skunk works with nearly unlimited black budget cash would be the most lit place to work ever. The hardest part would be not telling people what cool shit you are working on
@@tluangasailo3663idk about china but russia definetly has them figured out. Remember the shopping mall in ukraine that was one shot by one because it was housing weapons?
My family has 3 generations and over 100 yrs of combined NASA and Lockheed/Skunkworks) experience. I am damn proud of our contributions to Areospace and Defense and to this day we still build these systems.
The blackbird flew so hish and fast over hostile terretory that even if it did have a weapons bay, it did not have the means to reliably drop a weapon on target - unless it was one of those with a 10 mile blast radius.
@@laststand6420 Once there were interceptors and bombers without guns. Photo-recon too. Flying faster than your own bullets might prove a problem too. In general, once you get up to a certian speed, the ability to dogfight or hit a target smaller than an average city becomes a subject for friday nigh bar stool philosophers.
@Provision600 And they forget that they were psychologically manipulated to support, and even volunteer for, the war. They'll suffer from hooah syndrome the exact same way Leftists suffer from Trump derandment syndrome. Operation Mockingbird.
I think Lockheed being relatively loose lipped about this at first was potentially a ploy to bait the other superpowers into revealing their hypersonic capabilities and drum up sales.
As an Aerospace Engineering student in 1997, we were learning about scramjets, but in the context of the technology not being fully debugged yet, but we knew how to do the big pieces. The big sticking point at that time was how to introduce the fuel into the airflow. Having it mix was an issue being worked on. All that said, firing a missile at Mach 6 could be a massive no go. No idea if thye figured that out yet or if they just want a spyplane.
I shit yee not, I've been looking at and researching the SR-72 all day (for some reason it plopped itself in my head) - then I opened TH-cam and this is the first video I saw... ...the Feds are reading my mind, boys - I'm cooked ☠️
Lol. Same here. Last night I randomly got curious and started watching a bunch of videos on it from months and years ago. I get on today and this is top of my feed
you only tell your enemies about your "secret" projects if you want your enemies to spend money/resources trying to counter your "secret" projects. meanwhile your actual secret projects that are 10-20 years ahead of what your enemies are now trying to counter go ahead quietly while the enemy wastes money.
I heard a story about the SR-71. it was on Guam, there was a fishing boat way out past the end of the runway. It was a spy boat. The commander told the pilot to punch it and stay a few feet above the boats mast. Two thing happened. The water shot up just like in the movie Firefox, and the shockwave blew the boat apart.
It is implied that DARPA/Skunk Works figured out how to deploy a payload at hypersonic velocities. (Note: The D-21 vehicle for the SR-71 was not a very successful pairing.)
Cappy, you can just say ‘no bueno’. As an American here living in Mexico, I don’t use the library much, so directions aren’t needed. Keep up the great work. Saludos from the @mikeinmexico channel.
Hi Chris and thank's for another video. They are informative, from "the ground view". At 13.07, something, You mentioned: "The moving nosecone". The key word is, moving. That took, if my memory serves, Ben Rich, the "Father of The Cone", about 3 years, to construct! Not to speak of the other parts. From his autobiography, "Skunk Works", which I recommend to read, before going in to the "I am a Believer" mode. He tells the story, and so much more, read it, You get so much info, even for us, "uninitiated". a thought from a serious gearhead and aviation...and so on. a Finn in Diaspora
The original SR-71 weaponized version was named the YF-12a, which utilized new weapons tecnologies for hyper speed missles since the A/C was faster than any existing missle!
I have always wondered why the US never made a weaponized updated version of the SR71. I guess I was too impatient. And now they made an even better version of what I could imagine.
@@mariaortizmartinez3849 If this puppy is going to be at your door in 1 hour, its altitude may be such that drag and buffeting are not such huge issues.
Only comment is about the unmanned aspect of an SR72. We discovered that the pilot of a plane in hostile air space Carries significant intelligence. The pilot can say things like how many planes there are, where the bases are located, what kind of logistic support is used such as fuel. If an unmanned drone is shot down, none of that kind of information can be found in the wreckage. Drones are stupid in comparison to manned aircraft, but they are also less risky.
From a coding standpoint they need absolutely no delay in an unmanned plane like that. Its moving so fast even the slightest delay by fractions of a nano second could be a disaster.
At 6.4 M, one only needs to aim a rock at a target to create a noticeable crater. Cl-20, or Comp-B would cook-off long before reaching the target. Another technological challenge is that the current polymer based stealth coatings cannot handle the heat of supersonic flight, let alone hyper-sonic, and the SR-71 stayed below 3.4 M because the titanium skin was getting a bit soft at that speed... meaning that it is likely coated in ceramics and the skin is cooled with tech better than preheating the fuel.
It would be the design of the century. Imagine a uav flying at + mach 6 while opening a weapons bay to drop a missile. The amount of energy it needs to absorb to even open that weapons bay at those speeds 🤔
When said Command and Conquer, I was like Hell Yes, and then felt instantly older. Still one of the best strategy games to date but I must say how sad it is that we never got another game like that based on accurate weapons or near future weapons, I miss Command and Conquer Generals, I wish they would release another updated version with more countries to choose from like Soviet Union or Russia, France, Germany etc and updated graphics. I remember using my fleet of stealth helicopter to decimate my foes.
We were 3 decades ahead of our “peers” 5 decades ago. @cappyarmy said it best, America is an empire, and empires have the cutting edge over everyone else 95% of the time.
Just the "skin" of the plane alone will cost an absolute fortune. One of the other start-ups in hypersonic aviation disclosed they were using one of the materials in the Inconel family (I think it's steel with nickel, little bit of Wendy's Horsey Sauce... it's a spicy alloy) and even using a rare/uber-expensive alloy that can withstand hypersonic speeds, it is still going to necessitate it ("skin") being replaced essentially after every few missions. So maintenance costs will be astronomical, but when you're playing for survival no cost is too high (I'd hope... It's not like we need hundreds of these things)
Dude, awesome video. Not bad for a ground pounder. lol. Can you imagine the news reports from a possible front on how the enemies AWACS keep getting shot down?
They were talking about sun orbital fighters many years ago. An engine that gets the fighter to the fringe of space then shuts down. Deorbit where needed, do its thing then go back sub orbital and coast home.
I wouldn't be surprised if the SR-72 had to slow down to Mach 2 or 3 to launch any missiles, since airflow disruptions to the scramjet would be severe. So, fly to missile release location at Mach 6, slow to Mach 3 and release weapons, then accelerate back up to Mach 6. So reliable restart of the scramjet would be essential.
'agile at hypersonic speeds' that in itself gives an excellent reason for the craft to be unmanned. A flesh and blood pilot has been the limiting factor in aircraft performance since the jet age hit its stride. And we've already shown the capability to harden electronics to G forces that would turn a human being into soup.
Before it settled into a fast recon variant, he SR-71 went through a bunch of iterations, including some that carried weapons. Who's to say that whatever is in the works hasn't or won't, at least on paper, go through the same.
It's absolutely bonkers so naturally I love it. I mean, if the bird is going near mach 6, maybe plus, what are the missiles it fires doing? I can totally see why this would cause concern for any opposition yet it's also a relief. Let me explain, normally being able to see this plane coming would absolutely be cause for having a "brown moment" yet by the time you can see it it's missiles would have already hit you if it was shooting at you - thus "brown moment" averted. Granted that could change if it brought a few friends who are lagging a bit behind.
It seems kind of obvious to me: you have a hypersonic unmanned aircraft over enemy territory. Make it as small as possible to complete it's round-trip recon missions, which also means it's large enough to BE the weapon when needed. It's like Rods from God, but with a remote control and a half tank of gas.
Firstly, we’ve reached the limits of aerodynamics. Secondly, mass increases momentum. Thirdly, larger engines means more thrust. Building a hypersonic plane, to launch hypersonic missiles is easier than building hypersonic missiles that need to accelerate themselves from subsonic flight to hypersonic flight.
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I know you do the changing thumbnail to see which gets clicked on more, I clicked on the "spy bomber?" But I really wanted to click the "warheads on forheads" but was busy ATM 🤣🤣
The 🎉❤
Look like you got the sniffles old mate.
"Please stop sir... I can only huah so hard."
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Superhomo.
Hooah
@TaskandPurpose since Trump election you forgot Ukraine exists? and beard you are comedy
That's why real men just say "Rah". Go Marines!
China: "Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN--"
The note: "Gappy said..."
Steal those designs, STEAL those designs!
In five years China will reveal the "CR-72" and then claim its better than the SR72 in everything
China first 6th gen fighter jet. US have fallen behind the white emperor
Steal steal is what you mean
i'm fully convinced skunkworks is what happens when you give engineers free acces to any kind of drug they want
It's what happens when the Government asks for one with "everything", then writes a truly blank check.
Giving engineers unlimited power and money and then telling them you want something that gets rid of your enemies
US military: "here's a completely improbable idea straight out of sci fi, and here's a blank check, can you make this happen?"
Sunk Works: 2 years later: "here ya go"
And I , as an American tax payer don’t mind that 😂
The drug is virtually unlimited black budget cash
Thanks for adopting the smoother editing style. I have a headache from writing my PhD thesis and this is the only video in my feed that isn't aggravating it.
Go touch some grass
Probably unpopular opinion, but I really, really hate the stock video footage with voice over. Would much rather watch a talking head than having an editor lazily search an image for every keyword that's said and plaster that on screen for two seconds.
Good luck with your defense.
@Chiller11 Thanks!
Michael crushed it !
You know a project is expensive when there is no actual budget but will be worth every penny.
“Blackbird singing in the dead of night, all your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise”
😂😂😂😂
OOOH CATCHY
THIS WOULD MAKE GREAT SONG LYRICS
Enough already with the damn beatles. They were the 60"s version of blackeyed peas.
For Shame using a rock group's lyrics to promote the concept of an Air to surface dominance jet. /S 🤣
Glad I'm not the only one that had this pop into my head.
I agree. If you look at the timeline when the world learned of the F117, it was already 10 years old, at least.
I mean if you're talking about the general public learning through the official announcement, yes. If you're talking the aviation community, no. They'd had photos of the Tacit Rainbow and Have Blue demonstrators as well as the F-117 for basically the entire history of the program, the testing sites weren't as locked down as they are today, and more than a few crazies went out to the deserts with a good camera specifically looking to get evidence of test aircraft resulting in more than a few articles about the mysterious "F-19" as it was theorized to be called. Somebody also leaked it's existence leaked it to Tom Clancy who bassically describes the F-117 in Red Storm Rising, and there was even a company making model kits for the "F-19" based on leaked info from Have Blue and the pictures of the Have Blue/F-117 from those desert going aviation enthusiasts.
@@baronvonslambert sr71 might be a better comparison. It was kept secret after it was actually in service.
And amazingly almost nobody is noticing that the F-35 just penetrated extremely hostile Iranian airspace to wipe out Iran’s nuclear program. Those were Israeli F-35’s. The US F-35C also just entered combat for the first time wiping out a number of Houthi missile launch sites.
Scramjets on the SR-72 and on its payloads. Double the hypersonic fun!
Fun for the whole family!
@@Slumberrr 🤣
Combined cycle drives. Google them you will enjoy that rabbit hole.
thing hs +-3 degree vertical stability, good luck launching missiles with such margines. when they tested drone they lost a pilot
When the airframe and plumbing of the predecessor were made to account for severe thermal expansion from the sheer hotness of speed, I don’t think chilling out is on the books!
If Cappy is truly "an average infantryman"...that would partly explain why the US military is so good!
Great video!!!
I have come to the conclusion that Cappy is a very intelligent guy and definitely above-average in general.
That's sooo fking true.... That's why you Yanks can't abondon us here in Europe cuz we gonna get mad and do crazy things to you yanks
Because of the way the US military funds a recruit's school money through various programs, you will find a startling number of college graduates or partial college educated men in combat roles.
@@rtyrssonfr def above a general infantry he has hella awareness
I used to live in Palmdale until 2014. At night, we would sometimes hear some wild sounding aircraft flying around.
Well if it's not an alien. It's a SR-72 My friend 💪🇺🇸
I live there now.
At least hear them testing something 2-3 times a week.
Talking about US military capability is a part of the US deterrence strategy. They would not tell us for any other reason.
People who start fights only do so because they have convinced themselves that they have a winning advantage. It is better to make it known before hand that your dad is bigger then their dad.
Spot on. Deterrence only works if the party or parties you're trying to deter are convinced they should be worried about what you can do.
Well done, Grunt!
I'm a 33 year Aviator (Black Hawk, then a pisspot full of type ratings including the B767) and aviation enthusiast.
Rarely, do I see an aviation report that doesn't leave me screaming at the TV! But, in this case you did a really good job getting shit right.
With that said, my education ends with traditional jet & turbo fan engines and I know very little about SCRAM jets, but I can vouch for all your traditional engine reporting.
HOO-A!!
I think the number of people that fully understand the details and inner workings of the SCRAMJET are small in number. 😂
Scott, your playlist shows no mention of aviation related topics. I find your post total BS.
@@flycatchfulYou can learn about aviation in other ways than watching TH-cam videos and a playlist isnt a good way to even see if someone watched aviation content
@@Fjdjfjsz92938 Of course you can and that is a given. I personally follow aviation related podcasters and their sites follow other related sites. Like I posted the individual who claims he is an aviator leaves a lot to be desired. If he fails to reply than I'll be vindicated.
@@BoomerKeith1And none of them are Chinese.
"Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy’s unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions." - Sun Tzu
Speed has always been one of the most important factors in war.
China: "Hey America, we just debuted our new J-35. Are you scared yet?"
US: **staring at the latest iteration of incomprehensible stealth tech** "Yeah, I saw, cute copy, kid"
I can't wrap my head around how this thing going that fast can open a door and deploy it's wrapon without getting ripped apart.
The doors probably fold inwards. I think they use a lot of magic and wind tunnel testing.
That's a great point. Maybe they'll eject the weapon from the rear like the North American A-5 Vigilante to avoid exposing structurally sensitive surfaces to the slipstream chaos
It lobs itself into space.
@@FlyMernyFlythat will probably be the most likely way
@@FlyMernyFly Thank you, I've been trying to figure that out.
4:04 I always appreciate a good Command & Conquer reference
China has big Generals!
Not many people remember that even the SR-71 once had a variant built called the YF-12 as a FIGHTER designed to test new look-down-shoot-down missile technologies in the 70’s-80’s. When Reagan was fighting to push the B-1 Lancer bomber development across the finish line - at the same time we had the F-117, and the B-2 already in development - the YF-12 proved that the B1 Lancer would be obsolete before it ever reached production. The capability of shooting down even supersonic low-altitude bombers was done with great ease & accuracy… YF-12 proved that we could fire missiles from the SR-71 long ago. The SR-72 would just be taking this to a new level of capability.
As an investor in L-M, I hope we buy lots of them!
Don't forget the XB-70 and it's Pyre Wacket!
Yeah they messed around with a bunch of variants . There was a recon drone launcher version that shared a similar engine that could have easily been a super sonic nuclear cruise missile
Skunk works with nearly unlimited black budget cash would be the most lit place to work ever. The hardest part would be not telling people what cool shit you are working on
China and Russia: we have hypersonic missiles :P
USA: yeah yeah, we've put hypersonic missiles on our hypersonic */planes/*
and China and Russia cant figure out air launch hypersonic missile, that kinzhal is merely ballistic missile
@@tluangasailo3663idk about china but russia definetly has them figured out. Remember the shopping mall in ukraine that was one shot by one because it was housing weapons?
@@Tehn00bA I said kinzhal is merely ballistic missile
@@Tehn00bAthis reads like Russian propaganda
@@Tehn00bA found the propaganda bot
My family has 3 generations and over 100 yrs of combined NASA and Lockheed/Skunkworks) experience. I am damn proud of our contributions to Areospace and Defense and to this day we still build these systems.
Can you build a mini one for me??
I always had a crazy thought that when they made the Blackbird that they also made a weaponized version and kept it a secret.
I guess I'm not crazy.
The D-21 drone the SR-71 had would have made a great early (and fast) cruise missile. I can't believe that it wasn't considered or built at the time.
The blackbird flew so hish and fast over hostile terretory that even if it did have a weapons bay, it did not have the means to reliably drop a weapon on target - unless it was one of those with a 10 mile blast radius.
I think we can all agree that not strapping some sort of weapon to it would have been genuinely unamerican.
@@laststand6420 Agreed!
@@laststand6420 Once there were interceptors and bombers without guns. Photo-recon too. Flying faster than your own bullets might prove a problem too. In general, once you get up to a certian speed, the ability to dogfight or hit a target smaller than an average city becomes a subject for friday nigh bar stool philosophers.
Last time I came this early I got court martialed
I came pulling my pants down last night
too much detail - some things best left unsaid
Huh!?
Adidas tracksuit looking fresh bro
Gopnik Nouveau.
Gopnik Cappy
Looking very mobster
Russia, Iran, china: we have hypersonic missiles
US of frickin A : that's cute
The US just looking at them like "sure you do kids"
That would definitely be an American response out of arrogance because when the war is over they just sail/fly back home.
US has a lot of hypersonic missiles too. Even faster actually. Recently added to the arsenal. The Mako missile is insane.
@Provision600 And they forget that they were psychologically manipulated to support, and even volunteer for, the war.
They'll suffer from hooah syndrome the exact same way Leftists suffer from Trump derandment syndrome.
Operation Mockingbird.
@@reflexboxer2ndlt807 yep . Strangely literally nobody talks about that
Love the drunk gopnik who just woke up from a slumber look.
For real, no sarcasm. Relatable lol
I think the declassified mission reports are gonna be super interesting when we read them in like 50 years or whatever
I think Lockheed being relatively loose lipped about this at first was potentially a ploy to bait the other superpowers into revealing their hypersonic capabilities and drum up sales.
The SR--72 with weapons sounds a lot like a reimagined Lockheed YF-12, an interceptor version of the SR-71.
Interceptor version of the A-12, predecessor of the SR-71 (faster too).
F 22: would you intercept me?
I'd intercept me....
It puts the hypersonic armaments in the basket!!
As an Aerospace Engineering student in 1997, we were learning about scramjets, but in the context of the technology not being fully debugged yet, but we knew how to do the big pieces. The big sticking point at that time was how to introduce the fuel into the airflow. Having it mix was an issue being worked on. All that said, firing a missile at Mach 6 could be a massive no go. No idea if thye figured that out yet or if they just want a spyplane.
I shit yee not, I've been looking at and researching the SR-72 all day (for some reason it plopped itself in my head) - then I opened TH-cam and this is the first video I saw...
...the Feds are reading my mind, boys - I'm cooked ☠️
Close they are reading your google searches
Lol. Same here. Last night I randomly got curious and started watching a bunch of videos on it from months and years ago. I get on today and this is top of my feed
Don't let them read your naughty thoughts!!
you only tell your enemies about your "secret" projects if you want your enemies to spend money/resources trying to counter your "secret" projects. meanwhile your actual secret projects that are 10-20 years ahead of what your enemies are now trying to counter go ahead quietly while the enemy wastes money.
Hmm. Wonder if this is why they put a hold on NGAD.
would not be surprised
Exactly what I was thinkng
I heard a story about the SR-71.
it was on Guam, there was a fishing boat way out past the end of the runway.
It was a spy boat.
The commander told the pilot to punch it and stay a few feet above the boats mast.
Two thing happened.
The water shot up just like in the movie Firefox, and the shockwave blew the boat apart.
Cappy adding pictures of Aussies in the videos makes this Aussie Vet feel included 😊
It is implied that DARPA/Skunk Works figured out how to deploy a payload at hypersonic velocities. (Note: The D-21 vehicle for the SR-71 was not a very successful pairing.)
Ah yes, the hypersonic burrito😂
The sauce is nuclear🥵
the bathroom bomb. a murderous splatter weapon to be sure.
Cappy, you can just say ‘no bueno’. As an American here living in Mexico, I don’t use the library much, so directions aren’t needed. Keep up the great work. Saludos from the @mikeinmexico channel.
Hi Chris and thank's for another video. They are informative, from "the ground view".
At 13.07, something, You mentioned: "The moving nosecone".
The key word is, moving.
That took, if my memory serves, Ben Rich, the "Father of The Cone", about 3 years, to construct!
Not to speak of the other parts.
From his autobiography, "Skunk Works", which I recommend to read, before going in to the "I am a Believer" mode.
He tells the story, and so much more, read it, You get so much info, even for us, "uninitiated".
a thought from a serious gearhead and aviation...and so on.
a Finn in Diaspora
The original SR-71 weaponized version was named the YF-12a, which utilized new weapons tecnologies for hyper speed missles since the A/C was faster than any existing missle!
What was it like for targeting back in the olden days before GPS?
The Darkstar looks so freakin cool
6:17 never thought I'd ever see Pink Guy and the Gang doing the Harlem Shake on a video about the Sr-72 Dark Star 😭
They finally gave my favorite bird talons 🥲🥲
Very cool video. I was not even certain this was a thing. Thanks for adding the legitimacy. I am glad the SR71 has a successor.
I won’t be surprised that the Darkstar in Top Gun Maverick looks exactly like the actual one
..... so we're basically going back to the F-15 methodology? "If you can't sneak, you run"? More things change the more they stay the same, I guess.
Nah the US has both stealth and speed. The US at this point isn't just trying to beat the game, but to speed run it.
I have always wondered why the US never made a weaponized updated version of the SR71. I guess I was too impatient. And now they made an even better version of what I could imagine.
LOL I was playing CNC Zero Hour yesterday!
Thanx for cutting the 1/2 hr on the Blackbird, that things been old hat since I was born in '75.......
Why is "where is the library" the only spanish we all remember? lol
Dark star is crazy name. Well done naming department
this video had me giddy the entire time
It’s hard to comprehend how fast Mach 6 is. I would bet money, it’s faster than they say.
Adidas track suit with just woke up bed head……. Brother???
Used to hang out at Edwards during the 60's as a kid, the sr71 was a top ten to watch take off.
How's this thing open a weapons bay without the doors getting yeeted backwards at 6 times the speed of sound?
They would likely have to incorporate a sliding door mechanism, if they haven't already. Definitely not a cheap upgrade.
@@mariaortizmartinez3849 If this puppy is going to be at your door in 1 hour, its altitude may be such that drag and buffeting are not such huge issues.
Only comment is about the unmanned aspect of an SR72. We discovered that the pilot of a plane in hostile air space Carries significant intelligence. The pilot can say things like how many planes there are, where the bases are located, what kind of logistic support is used such as fuel. If an unmanned drone is shot down, none of that kind of information can be found in the wreckage. Drones are stupid in comparison to manned aircraft, but they are also less risky.
all that cold war tech and research, still paying dividends
Sounds like they finally got that turbo-encabulator tuned.
Bruh “warheads on foreheads” 🤣
Tbf, if the flyboys can go Mach 6, they might as well sleep somewhere nice, cause they can go anywhere and be back by dinner.
One thing worse than lack of confidence is over confidence
There is worse. "Naw I saw an episode of McGyver. I got this." Because we didn't have YT.
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You mean like how Russia said their new missile was "unstoppable"?
@rogerwilco5918 ROTFLMAO 😁😂😊🤣😅🙃🫠 it go boom before target good.
Not if your enemy believes it.
The USA constantly understates their capabilities. Go the opposite of Russia and China.
Holy shit, it's just one step away from the UCAV EDI.
I had a dream I was flying an SR-71. I crashed.
Speed is the new stealth? Oh baby we are SO back
There’s a ST-72?🤯
Supersonic T-72? Yeah plenty in Ukraine, and in orbit.
I’m glad they had a back up. I was kind of worried when Maverick blew up the first one.
Are you saying the F-99 Wombat is real?...
That's awesome!
I like the new editing style for a subject like this! It’s real nice!
From a coding standpoint they need absolutely no delay in an unmanned plane like that. Its moving so fast even the slightest delay by fractions of a nano second could be a disaster.
At 6.4 M, one only needs to aim a rock at a target to create a noticeable crater. Cl-20, or Comp-B would cook-off long before reaching the target. Another technological challenge is that the current polymer based stealth coatings cannot handle the heat of supersonic flight, let alone hyper-sonic, and the SR-71 stayed below 3.4 M because the titanium skin was getting a bit soft at that speed... meaning that it is likely coated in ceramics and the skin is cooled with tech better than preheating the fuel.
Looks like we are learning from the alien capabilities.
Hey, the aliens are here on an ISR footing. Are we surprised the tech we got is ISR-related?
next level wild weasel! now imagine anti-icbm hypersonic aircrafts, yes i m talking about ICBM interceptors ;D;D;D
Last time I came this early, my neighbor's wife got pregnant
It would be the design of the century. Imagine a uav flying at + mach 6 while opening a weapons bay to drop a missile. The amount of energy it needs to absorb to even open that weapons bay at those speeds 🤔
Retractable doors? I can't imagine adding parasitic drag at that speed!
When said Command and Conquer, I was like Hell Yes, and then felt instantly older.
Still one of the best strategy games to date but I must say how sad it is that we never got another game like that based on accurate weapons or near future weapons, I miss Command and Conquer Generals, I wish they would release another updated version with more countries to choose from like Soviet Union or Russia, France, Germany etc and updated graphics. I remember using my fleet of stealth helicopter to decimate my foes.
Same, especially Zero Hour, love me an Airforce General.
RTS games kinda lost popularity.
Shoulda been "to put it in terms my infantryman's brain can handle, its like trying to chug a beer while someone is squeezing the can". 12:40
“¿No bueno, donde esta la biblioteca?” Brilliant 👏👏👏
We were 3 decades ahead of our “peers” 5 decades ago. @cappyarmy said it best, America is an empire, and empires have the cutting edge over everyone else 95% of the time.
Just the "skin" of the plane alone will cost an absolute fortune. One of the other start-ups in hypersonic aviation disclosed they were using one of the materials in the Inconel family (I think it's steel with nickel, little bit of Wendy's Horsey Sauce... it's a spicy alloy) and even using a rare/uber-expensive alloy that can withstand hypersonic speeds, it is still going to necessitate it ("skin") being replaced essentially after every few missions. So maintenance costs will be astronomical, but when you're playing for survival no cost is too high (I'd hope... It's not like we need hundreds of these things)
Dude, awesome video. Not bad for a ground pounder. lol. Can you imagine the news reports from a possible front on how the enemies AWACS keep getting shot down?
There was a proposed interceptor version of the SR-71 that was supposed to fire the F-14's Phoenix missiles.
YF-12, right?
@@littlesneez9002 Yes
Another thing people don't think about if we're selling stuff to our allies it's because we have nicer toys and they can play with our hand me downs.
They started working on the SR74
These fabulously fast aircraft will stimulate the further development of laser weapons. Because speed of light is hard to out run.
They were talking about sun orbital fighters many years ago. An engine that gets the fighter to the fringe of space then shuts down. Deorbit where needed, do its thing then go back sub orbital and coast home.
I wouldn't be surprised if the SR-72 had to slow down to Mach 2 or 3 to launch any missiles, since airflow disruptions to the scramjet would be severe. So, fly to missile release location at Mach 6, slow to Mach 3 and release weapons, then accelerate back up to Mach 6. So reliable restart of the scramjet would be essential.
You know they're serious if they've got John Clark running the program.
I understood that reference. 😎
If/when the SR-72 comes out, I wanna see cappy's voice on Habitual Line Crosser as the character
The ambience music in the Background is goated
'agile at hypersonic speeds' that in itself gives an excellent reason for the craft to be unmanned. A flesh and blood pilot has been the limiting factor in aircraft performance since the jet age hit its stride. And we've already shown the capability to harden electronics to G forces that would turn a human being into soup.
Unmanned, and for a high enough priority target, the SR-72 could BE the weapon (if loaded with high/nuclear explosives).
Before it settled into a fast recon variant, he SR-71 went through a bunch of iterations, including some that carried weapons. Who's to say that whatever is in the works hasn't or won't, at least on paper, go through the same.
It's absolutely bonkers so naturally I love it. I mean, if the bird is going near mach 6, maybe plus, what are the missiles it fires doing? I can totally see why this would cause concern for any opposition yet it's also a relief. Let me explain, normally being able to see this plane coming would absolutely be cause for having a "brown moment" yet by the time you can see it it's missiles would have already hit you if it was shooting at you - thus "brown moment" averted. Granted that could change if it brought a few friends who are lagging a bit behind.
Can you imagine the security around this facility and the pressure on the staff, who guards the guards?
It seems kind of obvious to me: you have a hypersonic unmanned aircraft over enemy territory. Make it as small as possible to complete it's round-trip recon missions, which also means it's large enough to BE the weapon when needed. It's like Rods from God, but with a remote control and a half tank of gas.
Plot twist! It's actually not a hypersonic aircraft, it's a slow moving spy cloud!
Firstly, we’ve reached the limits of aerodynamics. Secondly, mass increases momentum. Thirdly, larger engines means more thrust.
Building a hypersonic plane, to launch hypersonic missiles is easier than building hypersonic missiles that need to accelerate themselves from subsonic flight to hypersonic flight.