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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