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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:31:25 No.52719177 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>52719195 >>52719225 >>52719314 >>52719399 >>52719447 >>52719466 >>52719503 >>52720963 >>52724535

after all these decades, it still causes so much seethe.. why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:32:58 No.52719195 Report

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>>52719177
idk. maybe because nothing really came of the money that was invested to create the technology that was developed to make it.

also, fuck ya mudda

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:34:13 No.52719225 Report

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>>52719177
my grandpa worked on the engines for this was a career lockheed and boeing man. i miss papa rip :(

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:38:57 No.52719307 Report

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>>52719195
>nothing really came of the money that was invested to create the technology that was developed to make it.

look at this dude

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:39:09 No.52719314 Report

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>>52719177

Because it’s one of the monuments to Western superiority over commie shit, along with the F-15, the Saturn V and many other achievements. It’s like America just builds shit sometimes so that 1000 years from now aliens can recognize that the Soviets were shit and America was based.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:40:37 No.52719334 Report

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Because it was the fastest thing humans have ever flown in

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:41:29 No.52719353 Report

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>>52719314
This desu. This is also why things like SpaceX generate so much seethe. It's a reminder that thirdies can't compete.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:41:50 No.52719359 Report

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>>52719195

the SR-71 heavily informed basically all future hyper sonic engineering and its navigation technology is what is the US is now reviving in order to prepare for a new age of GPS denied battle spaces.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:43:58 No.52719399 Report

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>>52719177
>tfw they had highly developed interceptor version that was scrapped

Originally designed for the XF-108 program, were among the most advanced air-to-air weapons of the era. Based largely on the design for the AIM-4 Falcon missile, the AIM-47 could engage targets at ranges as far as 100 miles at speeds in excess of Mach 4.

Only about 80 of these missiles were ever built, with seven total guided launches attempted from the YF-12. Six of those test launches resulted in kills, with the propulsion system failing on the seventh. Despite never seeing operational use, the AIM-47 would go on to serve as the basis for the legendary AIM-54 Phoenix missile later carrier by the Grumman F-14 Tomcat.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:45:27 No.52719416 Report

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>>52719399
What would have been

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:47:43 No.52719447 Report

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>>52719177
Outdoes soviet spying
can't deny it

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:49:04 No.52719466 Report

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>>52719177
Fuck the navy

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:52:03 No.52719503 Report

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>>52719177
Because the X-men use it for their terrorist operations and everyone 'ates the muties.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 00:58:15 No.52719581 Report

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>>52719399
Anon lets be real, what did the commies have that would really necessitate having an interceptor that OP?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 02:12:13 No.52720821 Report

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>>52719581
sometimes you do things just to dab on the opposition

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 02:15:53 No.52720911 Report

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>>52719416
>AGM-69
Nice

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 02:18:10 No.52720963 Report

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>>52719177
You guys sure you don't want to do another ukraine thread?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 02:21:43 No.52721032 Report

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>>52719581
some people just really hate bombers

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 05:31:38 No.52723718 Report

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It was one of the last aircraft projects developed before the onslaught of security and red-tape bureaucracy. The Skunkworks simply took a room filled with the smartest, most experienced engineers and let them loose.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 05:35:25 No.52723754 Report

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>>52719581
The point is to assert the superiority of the American way of life, there is absolutely zero need for it but the simple fact that we could've done it is reason enough that we should've done it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 06:18:19 No.52724219 Report

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>>52719581
> necessitate
SHALL

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Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 06:39:31 No.52724421 Report

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>>52719466
That story never fails to make me smile.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Mar 2022 06:51:16 No.52724535 Report

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>>52719177
who is seething?
its universally considered an engineering marvel that was continuously used to keep tabs on politicially sensitive situations like vietnam, yom-kippur, and Afghanistan

it not only served for 30 years, but still holds the world record for fastest manned aircraft
and even that is an understatement of its true potential, as the SR-71 could have gone faster had the need arose

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