2023-12-28 22:53:00
The SR-72 aircraftalso known as the “Son of Blackbird”is part of a top secret mission of the Air Force of USA to improve your aviation skills and consolidate your absolute hegemony in the skies. The ambitious model, scheduled to fly only in 2025, would travel at speeds exceeding 4,000 miles per hour (mph) and is capable of firing hypersonic projectiles.
The North American Air Force considers it as the “almost perfect” planesince it is configured to be a hypersonic and very fast high-altitude surveillance equipment.
According to technical details published in the newspaper The Sunthe SR-72 model will be capable of firing “hypersonic weapons” at unprecedented speedwith the added bonus that it could remain at these speeds for a longer period.
Although the plane plans do not belong to the Pentagon orbit, it is not ruled out that they are monitoring the amazing aerospace creation of the Lockheed Martin company.
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It is a prestigious multinational that became famous for its ambitious efforts in the field of aircraft and the SR-72 confirms this once again.
“Son of Blackbird” was born within the framework of one of his Advanced Development Programs (also known by their pseudonym “Skunk Works”) and is a hypersonic demonstration aircraft that will take off for the first time around 2025.
The fast aircraft was designed to not require a human in the cockpit and could mark a turning point in the way the military conducts its air operations.
The fastest airplane today is the Mach 6, which can reach speeds of more than 4,100 mph and, as reported, the SR-72 would register speeds close to that threshold.
A plane traveling at a top speed of more than 4,000 mph could travel from the United States to Europe in an hour and a half.
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The predecessor of the SR-72 was the legendary SR-71 Blackbird
The name “Son of Blackbird” is a tribute to its predecessor, the SR-71 Blackbird aircraft..
The legendary SR-71 Blackbird took to the skies in the mid-1960s and participated in some highly dangerous missions over Soviet airspace.
Most of these missions involved taking photographs of Soviet military bases and nuclear missile sites for submission to the United States.
Flying at enormous altitudes of between 80,000 and 85,000 feet, the original model flew about 50,000 feet higher than any commercial airliner and so will the SR-72.
The SR-71 Blackbird model was considered “untouchable” by any enemy aircraft and was also able to evade almost all the weapons systems that other armies had in place.
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In fact, when the SR-71 Blackbird was retired in 1998, it was already They had fired around 4,000 missiles at it to shoot it down..
Considering that the SR-72 would be even faster, the United States Air Force has reason to see it as an “invincible” aircraft.
Its size will be similar to its predecessor, with a length of 100 feet.
But the SR-71 had one big drawback compared to its more recent version: it needed a pilot, who also had to wear spacesuits. The SR-72 model has the advantage of being “autonomous”.
However, North American authorities remain somewhat cautious because they know that the arms industry has progressed to the same extent.
The SR-72 will have to face “new dangers”such as directed energy weapons and hypersonic munitions.
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Rob Weiss, executive vice president and general manager of Advanced Development Programs at Lockheed Martin, spoke with Aviation Week about the promising plane.
The specialist stated that “the technology is mature” and that his team works on the hypersonic plane together with DARPA [Agencia de Proyectos de Investigación Avanzada de Defensa].
Lockheed Martin was responsible for other projects that marked a turn in the world of aviationas the largest passenger aircraft in the world, twice the size of a Boeing 747.
Composed of four very powerful engines and a huge wingspan of 282 feet, the plane was prepared to take the flight experience to another level and could carry almost 1,000 people on board.
Thanks to its innovative design, the “Lockheed Ring Wing” was also the first airliner to feature only a huge circular wing.
It was created to consume less fuel, have softer landings and be able to land on small runways.
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