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life in washington this morning. >> good morning, ashley and todd, the warships scouring the plexi unlikely to find anything according to top -- i dont know if we can recover or not, but we will certainly have to do that and have to deal with it. the u.s. top officer said not sure if there fighter bit to make jet meant to call her life crushing down into the sea 30,000 feet about 75 miles southwest of crimea. >> it went over and landed in the black sea. it is probably 4,000 feet of wat...

tonight. i am going to take a contrarian view. i have got some questions. here is my first question about this story. the china balloon story. this is like laughter out of uncomfortablity. i cant believe this actually happened. right? sow china. they seem to have chosen the most low tech spying mechanism possible to humiliate the united states. a balloon. when my grandmother took me to the zoo when i was a kid with my grandfather, i got a balloon. its the same technology china is flyin...

tonight. i am going to take a contrarian view. i have got some questions. here is my first question about this story. the china balloon story. this is like laughter out of uncomfortablity. i cant believe this actually happened. right? sow china. they seem to have chosen the most low tech spying mechanism possible to humiliate the united states. a balloon. when my grandmother took me to the zoo when i was a kid with my grandfather, i got a balloon. its the same technology china is flyin...

tonight. i am going to take a contrarian view. i have got some questions. here is my first question about this story. the china balloon story. this is like laughter out of uncomfortablity. i cant believe this actually happened. right? sow china. they seem to have chosen the most low tech spying mechanism possible to humiliate the united states. a balloon. when my grandmother took me to the zoo when i was a kid with my grandfather, i got a balloon. its the same technology china is flyin...

course, which is, again, why we are monitoring it. >> jesse: the comey spy balloon airspace and fingers around a joystick and flying it towards major cities but we are not shooting it down. >> you said this is violating our airspace so why not take it down? >> yeah, so, you know, clearly as we assess options and considering the size of the pay load on this, looking at the potential for debris and the impact on civilians on the ground or property damage, and so out of an abundance of ca...

While the SR-71 Blackbird would ultimately surpass its predecessor’s altitude and speed records, the YF-12 would retain its status as the heftiest, largest, and quickest manned interceptor to ever fly the skies.

Boeing’s latest version of the storied F-15 Eagle, the F-15EX, can reach nearly Mach 3 at full throttle. The Air Force plans to buy just 104 of them.

It's possible that through Top Gun: Maverick, Lockheed gave us a glimpse at the real SR-72. What we know so far is that the SR-72 will be a hypersonic UAV, built for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations. The project was first proposed in 2013, to fill the coverage gap that the SR-71’s retirement left between surveillance satellites, aircraft, and

Though 32 Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbirds" were built, 11 were lost in accidents – yet not a single aircraft was shot down by the enemy. But the flight suit needed to get into this hot rod in the sky was quite something. 

The Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird (or, as its aircrew members have dubbed it, the Habu, after a pit viper indigenous to Japan)  is, without a doubt, one of the most legendary and iconic military aircraft of all time, by simple virtue of the fact that 58 years after its invention and 23 years after its official retirement (retired by the U.S. Air Force in 1998 and by NASA the