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#2So given Lockheed's track record on the F-35, we'll see this finally cancelled around 2040 (the first $1 trillion aircraft program) when everyone else has built similar planes better, faster, and more reliably.
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#3I mean hey if we're going to be throwing away huge sums of money on useless military gear, it may as well look cool. OTOH maybe we'd be better served by underwriting all college tuition?
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#4“At this speed, the aircraft would be so fast, an adversary would have no time to react or hide.”
“Hypersonic aircraft, coupled with hypersonic missiles, could penetrate denied airspace and strike at nearly any location across a continent in less than an hour”
… sounds lovely.
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#5Could this be used for space launch?
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#6I'm not that familiar with military aircraft development timelines, but this stuck out as my favorite part:
A hypersonic plane does not have to be an expensive, distant possibility. In fact, an SR-72 could be operational by 2030.
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#7“At this speed, the aircraft would be so fast, an adversary would have no time to react or hide.” “Hypersonic aircraft, coupled with hypersonic missiles, could penetrate denied airspace and strike at nearly any location across a continent in less than an hour” … sounds lovely.
They expect delivery 'by 2030'.
I wonder if satellites and newer weapons wouldn't be able to intercept its flight path by then.
You probably wouldn't have to match its speed to bring it down, just throw up a cloud of junk in its way.
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#8Part of what made the SR-71 incredible was Kelly Johnson's ability to keep the team small, fast, and focused in designing it. Not sure if that's the case here.
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#9So given Lockheed's track record on the F-35, we'll see this finally cancelled around 2040 (the first $1 trillion aircraft program) when everyone else has built similar planes better, faster, and more reliably.
How else are we going to keep those efficient, upstanding private contractors in business?
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#10The SR-71 was developed using 20th century technology. It was envisioned with slide rules and paper. It wasn’t managed by millions of lines of software code. And it wasn’t powered by computer chips. All that changes with the SR-72.
Oh oh.