Pretty sure the Pentagon's "declassified UFO vids" are really just their own experimental craft, and they're letting everyone blame aliens just like they did in the late 1940s with their experimental jet fighters.
@@Dad-lu1oi Why would we assume that the earth is the only planet with macro organisms? Yes, micro is likely much more common but macro can live in a lot of places.
@@ChildovGhad I don't know shit about aircraft but those us aircrafts were perfectly tracking that "ufo" so if it's classified aircraft it can't be that good if it was detected so easily
Nope. But I did pick up on the quiet little propaganda plug at circa 2.45 that 'the stainless steel Foxbat is an example of Soviet superior aircraft technology'.
"The SR-71 was decommissioned in 1976." Try 1998 for US Airforce, 1999 for NASA. First flights were 1964 and they were introduced in 1966, so I have no idea where you get 1976 for decommissioned. Also all top speeds should be stated as top speed publicly known.
@@pyromaniac354 I think we're inundated with enough bullshit information by the news and government, we don't need more. If they're going to put together a video at least check the data and make sure they're aren't talking shit. Enough with the stupidity in the world.
It is amazing how often we keep forgetting that we have limits on speed, not due to engines of the aircraft, but the materials made in building them and the craft around them because of friction from the atmosphere. The Foxbat and the F111 have always been two of my favourites. I used to live near an air force base that housed a couple of squadrons in Australia. Just loved watching them fly and they'd fly so low over our farm, that you could wave to the pilots, and I did get quite a few waves back when they flew that low. It was more amazing watching them turn the afterburners on at dusk. Seeing that massive trail of fire was like watching a jet turn into a rocket! Thirty years on, I still feel like the teenager I was when I watched them in the sky, gives me a big arsed smile on my face.
@@felixsteiner1295 the engines used wouldn't be able to stand the accelleration needed for the length of time, the plane wouldn't be able to carry the needed fuel, nor are they able to work in the altitude required for such speeds
3:39 it wasn't decommissioned in 1966. It was introduced in 1966 and retired in 1998 by USAF and 1999 by NASA. It was flown for 53,490 total flight hours and could fly over mach 3 for hours at a time with no trouble at all.
Fun fact: The Sr-71 suffered an "unstart" (compressor stall) at Mach 3.3 while setting its speed and altitude record in 1965. While running through a 100+ item checklist for the re-start the engine, the aircraft actually gained altitude and maintained mach 3.2 through the timing gate. Yes, that's correct...the Sr-71, one of the fastest aircraft ever produced, set its speed record on ONE engine and still managed to beat the previous record set a few weeks earlier by something like 110 mph.
The SR-71 Black Bird is still my favorite one, when it's grounded it drips out fuel even though theres no leaks or cracks or holes in it!!! Yet when in full flight it dosen't leak at all, it could be that the gravity of it while in flight holds the fuel in better. I just love it's design it looks so cool, and so powerfull!!!! What a flying beast!!!! Awsome!!!😜😜😜😳😎😎😎👍👍
I love how Concorde - a luxury commercial airliner, capable of carrying over 120 champagne-sipping businessfolks from Heathrow to JFK in under 3 hours at over Mach 2.0 - only just missed the cut...
@C L Re-read my comment. The "it was decommissioned in 1966" is from **this stupid video**. The Blackbird was retired in 98 and put to supplemental use by NASA from 98-99. There was discussion of reinstating it in the early 2000s, but it was never pursued.
@Chris Burn RE: "Alarm bells should probably start ringing when the channel hasn't worked out the plural of 'aircraft' is 'aircraft' 😳" Mistakes such as that are extremely common these days. I've been noticing them in all media for the last thirty-five years. And people get downright indignant if you try to point out an error.
@@spaceman081447 Yes, I've noticed it too, including in mainstream media. Often it feels like content is dictated to the work experience kid over a bad phone line with no knowledge of context. But I suspect an increasing number of people just don't have great language skills.
@@jumpercable20 @Jumpercable wireless we have nuclear deterrence for that... I was obviously talking about aircraft speed; your reply makes me think you missed this context
My father worked on the design of some of the avionics of the B 70. The only thing he could tell my mother and I, a child of course, was that it was an aircraft that when it flew from LA to NY it had to slow down at Chicago. I was an Mechanic on F 15s for 5 years. Great aircraft! Thanks
In the 1970,s i arrended a dinner party at Peterson field colorado. Lots of airforce people there i sat next to a crew chief who worked on the B58. He said he saw a plane come in one day that had nearly melted. Its true speed was higher than advertised. I would not be surpried if that was true for Sr71 as well.
@@oxcarthabu No sorry this was before the sr. As it was a way to tell his kid and wife as much as he could, but yes I have heard of the SR described this way. Thanks, I like the discussion.
@@chuckbowen4334 I had worked on a lot of different aircraft before the 15, but the 58 was before my time. I had a former crew chief on the SR work for me and I worked for one from the 58. You are correct that they were both bats out of hell. They leaked a lot of fuel until they warmed up from the speed and the joints closed up. They could not be touched for quite a while after landing due to heat. Thanks for reading my replay.
The SR-71 and YF-12 were the only mach 3+ aircraft that could sustain that speed. All others could zoom to mach 3 but could not maintain that speed for very long.
@@rubiix2889 The XB-70 was designed for sustained Mach 3 + speed using Compression Lift. The outer wings folded down in flight to get this speed. However the heat generated from this the skin of the plane could not handle. The SR-71 had a public published speed in excess of Mach 3.5. That's all that was said, Excess of Mach 3.5
@@Cutter2506 One SR71 pilot I heard talking about his experience, he was over the middle east taking surveillance photos, rockets were fired at them, he had to wait until his partner finished getting photos before firing the afterburner, he held it wide open so long, all he recalls was his partner, white as a sheet telling him he could slow down now, he did not tell what speed he had reached either.
@@Cutter2506 this is inaccurate but I believe it's because of a misinterpretation. The xb70 could sustain Mach 3 easily and it did and there wasn't a problem with the skin. There was a problem with the paint because it would tear off the paint. But it was only aesthetics. Secondly the SR-71 never went 3.5.
@@BJCulpepper Google 'sr-71+libya'. Major Brian Shul has an article about the mission in 1986 where he photographed the proof of an american airstrike on terrorist camps. With mach 5 SA-2 and SA-4 SAMs being fired at him he had the aircraft at over Mach 3.5. The SR-71 is rated for Mach 3.2 in nearly any condition but with perfect conditions (which he claims were present) it will exceed Mach 3.5. The engines will push the plane well past 3.5 but heat created from the air rushing past the plane will incinerate it. I'd link the article but youtube doesn't let you post links. It's like the second thing that comes up when you google, sr-71+libya. If you haven't do your self the favor of reading it, that cat is a fantastic writer. He tells a funny story about asking for an airspeed check from ATC, and brilliantly describes the view from the flight deck at 84k feet.
the MIG 25 interceptor was developed in response to the XB-70. It was a brute force design that was basically unsuited for anything else.....about 400 or more were constructed. The XB-70 program was discontinued because of the huge costs, and the realization that it would quickly become vulnerable to new developments. ICBMs were a much more cost effective solution.
About 1200 were constructed and were sold to countries around the world. It set 29 world records and is the fastest know fighter jet to this day and still keeps the record for a flight at the highest altitude. It was build to counter the XB-70 and that was his only purpose. Although later modifications saw some moderate battle achievements.
The SR71 wasn't put out of service until 1998, nearly 20 years later than this video claims. Additionally, its primary role was reconnaissance, not to outrun other planes. It traveled so fast, other planes and even hostile air defense would likely not even know it was there.
Actually USAF Captain Milbourn Apt flew the Bell X-2 to a top speed of Mach 3.2 and this was actually the first manned aircraft to ever exceed Mach 3. Sadly, within a few seconds of reaching this remarkable achievement, the X-2 aircraft started a slow roll that quickly went into an oscillating spin, where the G forces pinned Captain Apt in the seat and he never recovered. Both he and the X-2 were lost.
Bonus points for getting the speed wrong on the aircraft that has maintained the record for the official fastest aircraft in the world going on 50 years.
Not to mention she tries to sing the narrative... Listen to how she upward pitches every other word, exactly how people sing... 0:19 ten 0:20 siukoi 0:22 origin 0:23 27 0:24 aircraft 0:25 maneuverable Then next plane at 0:39 number nine 0:44 Aardvark 0:46 interdicter Yeah that is what is what's so unfortunate about everyone and their cousin thinking they should and have the ability to create their own RUclips Channel. We get people who have no idea what they are talking about on here and spreading all this misinformation... We also are now in the age of people making it their part to try to disprove long standing facts in order to seem smarter and more informed than everyone else...it's so annoying, when you hear well this study showed__________ isn't true...or actually __________ statement is wrong because of___________ (some bullshit, extenuating/exception/one off occurence. Its kinda scary too cause you never know what people's motives are these days...
@Cookiez R4 Yes both its service ceiling and top speed are still clasified. When it set the record for fastest production aircraft it did its second run on only one engine. I read an article a while ago where an aerodynamicist had done a study on the SR71and concluded the airframe as built was capable of Mach 6 but the engines were the limiting factor
@Kurogane 556 48. I actually did some of the artwork on that exact F-15E 90-250. The Tiger on the nose was done in chalk, as it was forward of the intakes. Seeing it cut and flipped, and inaccurately reported is hard cringe.
I watched a video on that bird recently where a pilot said that the only reason the Lightning had wings was to keep the navigation lights apart, the thing was a rocket 👌 🍻
totally agree. listening to a black person that barely knows anything (obviously, no racist intent meant), talking like the Soviets EVER stood a chance against us is quite hilarious.
I figured someone else would have pointed this out, but yeah, that's definitely the X-1. Anyone who remembers the pilot episode of Quantum Leap knows what the X-2 looks like. ;-P
Yes, I read a story where the pilot admitted that during a flight over Libya in the 1980's, the plane exceeded Mach 3.5, but didn't give the real maximum speed. It's very possible that it could have exceeded Mach 4.0.
Everything about the SR-71 has been declassified. Don't get me wrong, a fantastic aircraft, but its real performance has been exaggerated over the decades. And it never flew over Russia.
@@machbaby If you're trying to sound intelligent, you're failing miserably. There are plenty of things about the SR-71 that are still classified to this day. Especially it's top speed.
The XB-70 could cruise at Mach 3.1, and it got up to Mach 3.2 briefly. The SR-71 could cruise at Mach 3.2, and it got to Mach 3.5 in a dive. These are the only jets that legitimately operated above Mach 3. The MiG-25 can only really go Mach 2.8. The one that went Mach 3.2 literally melted the engines. The YF-12 is just a slightly shorter single-seat SR-71 variant with missiles. If we're talking about SR-71 variants you need to include the A-12 and M-21, too, but that's silly. This is a pretty bad video, but it's cool that it's actually mostly accurate. Although it's pointless to include anything rocket-powered because then why aren't you including everything NASA ever built? The Saturn V got up to Mach 8 with the first stage, and Mach 20 with the second stage. :)
Some of the gross weights are hilarious. I did performance analysis on the F-111 as young punk engineer at General Dynamics in the mid '70s. The gross weight was well in excess of 50,000 pounds!
NASA is a hoax, because they never break the sound barrier. Look at pictures of jets that are exceeding the speed of sound, and notice the vortex around it, then try to find one of the space shuttle, or anything else that NASA has built. There's a one mile radius around the launchpad, where the sound is so loud, that it will kill you, but the astronauts can sit 100ft, or so above it, and still talk to mission control without shouting? Conveniently, there just happens to be an "emergency escape" tunnel under the launchpad, that is accessible by a slide, that takes the astro-nots to an underground bunker. Look at the design of the SR-71, and then look at the space shuttle, and tell me that it can reach 17,500mph.
@@tysonatkins2236 I assume you’re being hilarious on purpose. I mean, you must understand that heat shields are a thing, and the NASA’s X-15 has gone much faster than than any jet, and the greatest limiting factor in supersonic flight is the exponentially-increasing heat caused by air friction. And if you go straight up like a rocket the air gets thinner very quickly and it’s easy to go much faster - the obvious limitation being that air-breathing engines don’t work when there’s no more air. But I love a good moon landing conspiracy.
@@RUNIFLAVOR76 Unmanned aircraft don't count. If they did, then the SR-72 (Mach 6) would rank 6th among unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The fastest Hypersonic UAV is the YU-74 Avangard which, in early 2018, reportedly reached a speed of Mach 27 (20,716.3 mph or 33,339.6 kph). Of course, the fastest man-made object is currently Voyager 1 which is traveling at Mach 49.56 (38,026.77 mph or 61,1698.15 kph).
@Andrew Dreyer: The X15 was a rocket powered plane/aircraft. And the video-title was fastest aircraft. But it is not a jet-plane. That you are right about. ;)
To those “plane experts” - def. of airplane: “a powered flying vehicle with fixed wings and a weight greater than that of the air it displaces.” Nothing about takeoff or power plant. Let’s get more informed before posting, folks.
@@damianketcham yes, he was. Actually, I think the defection choice was by default, it was the only place in the range of his aircraft. I read his book, and he had went into great detail of its workings. He also went into great detail of a great many other things behind the Iron Curtain, but that is another story.
"The mig wrecked it's engines every time it went mach 3" - it is not true. the only problem was that when you go through the thermal barrier (mach 3) the sealant melted on the canopy, for this reason, pilots were forbidden to fly at speeds above 3,000 km/h.
The X-15 was also a short duration rocket with wings, not really an aircraft. The SR-71 was capable of taking off, landing and, with air refueling, very long flights.
In 1980 he co-wrote his autobiography, MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko, where he states that MiG-25 pilots were forbidden to exceed Mach 2.5, and he maintained that the Foxbat could not safely exceed 2.8. When told that MiG-25s flew at Mach 3.2 in the skies over Israel, he said that the engines had been completely destroyed by these speeds, and that the pilots had been lucky to live through the experience. theaviationgeekclub.com/foxbat-vs-blackbird-mig-25-never-posed-credible-threat-sr-71-mach-3-spy-plane/
The fastest aircraft (air breathing) was not shown. The Lockheed A-12 Oxcart was the ORIGINAL aircraft in the "SR" line. It was slightly smaller but actually faster than the later SR-71. The Oxcart was THE aircraft that penetrated deep inside Soviet airspace (ie, MOSCOW) regularly with impunity. It was flown exclusively by CIA pilots (1964-1968). The YF-12 was a USAF interceptor version without numerous stealth features of the A-12. All of these types (except the YF-12) were capable of much higher speeds than is published. As SR pilot Brian Shul stated, "We always had more speed available." Probably in the mid Mach 4 to low Mach 5 numbers. Pilots were likely told to never use that speed while monitored over enemy or friendly airspace.
What you are saying is false. After the U2 was shot down the US made a pact with Russia that they would not fly over Soviet airspace. The Sr-71 flew only over international waters, but had side-looking cameras that from 85,000 ft. Could see Moscow. They NEVER flew "deep" into Russia as you claim.
The SR-71 was not physically capable of more than Mach 3.3 sustained in flight. Exceeding that would cause an “unstart” condition in the engine because the shock wave at inlet had moved in the wrong direction. Some may have exceeded the 3.3 slightly, but it wasn’t for long and it was very dangerous to the aircraft. An unstart would yaw the aircraft and could render it out of control and lead to a breakup.
Wow I didn't know the sr71 didn't fly over Soviet airspace, I always thought it did but couldn't be caught, and it was almost locked on by a mig, until a mig pilot defected to Japan and we found out that we over estimated the migs capabilities, but thanks for clearing that up for me..
Your quote is also inaccurate. In Top Gun they called them MiG-28's, not the MiG-25. And yes, the MiG-25 could go well over Mach 3, but as already stated, flying at that speed for more than a brief moment would destroy the engines.
"Soviet superior aircraft technology." Are you freaking kidding me? Stainless steel design? Sure, when CIA engineers examined Lt. Belenkos plane they found curious brown marks all over the wings. When they held up a magnet to it, the magnet was immediately attracted to it. Stainless steel is not attracted by magnets. Not to mention that the thing used radio tubes and not transistors.
How exactly does the F-106 surpass the SR which flies 2400 mph at 85000 feet? Single engine I understand but the numbers are from an air breathing jet. Single or dual engine doesn't matter if you're promoting the fastest jet. The SR has and had no equal. End of story.
ya Zane , I actually hit a dislike on this one for that reason too ! and to The Buzz - Do your Research Better . The people watching these types of videos will know a lot about these machines - that is why we check stuff out - for that one additional tid bit that someone maybe found that we can go - " OH NO SHIT !! I wonder where they found that " - and then disappear down a rabbit hole for 3 hours on a fun research quest.
@@buddadocta3754 Looks like that error in when it was decommissioned came from Wikipedia - Surprise! Not the most accurate source for detailed information.
As someone who worked on the F111F model at Mtn. Home, I have to say that the data for the F111 is not accurate. While I will not say what the Mach number was, aircraft would come back from the FCF area and report highter Mach numbers than this.
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 May as well clarify, the SR-71 is the fastest, manned, air breathing aircraft. There have been unmanned ram jets and scram jets that have gone faster.
I agree about the Space Shuttle as the X-15 and X-2 also needed boosters (planes) to get to altitude. I don't think anyone would consider the Apollo capsules "aircraft" even though they plummeted through the atmosphere with the tiniest bit of control.
@@pahtar7189 True but even the saturn V booster rockets had "stabilizer planes" next to the thrusters so technically that qualifies it as an "aero plane".
Per the site, according to Charlie Brown, who was part of the F-14 design team and a Northrop Grumman test pilot, “the Navy specs called for a top speed of Mach 2.34, but the Tomcat was tested for Mach 2.5.”
It glides back to earth pretty damn fast, I'm thinking the x2 and x15 ain't truly air craft since their launched like a missile from a mother aircraft, and I'm curious why the Starfighter wasn't included, 1450 mph mach 2.2
@@sumdumguy7197 because there's too many other aircraft that are faster than the 104 Starfighter. At least officially, I don't believe for a second that that aircraft can only go 2.2 Mach. I happen to know that the SR-71 flew a lot faster than anybody ever admitted.
There was an article I read in readers digest in the 70s at one point the SR71 reached Mach 4 for a few seconds, only to hold back because the canopy started to glow red and the pilot could hardly touch it even with thick gloves. Maybe NASA and the Pentagon are holding up some information and don't declare a specific speed, but instead says Mach 3++.
The theoretical maximum speed for the SR-71 is in the neighborhood of 4.5. As a point, anytime the Russians put up a highly specialized AC to break the record the US would routinely roll out an SR-71 and surpass it. We will likely never know the actual maximum speed for the SR.
The SR-71 flight manual is available online. I think it was compressor inlet temp mentioned in there as the big limiting factor. www.sr-71.org/blackbird/
no, a rocket should indeed have enough fuel to take off under its own power and also the X-15 has a rocket engine thats true, but its an AIRcraft because it RIDES THE AIR and has WINGS to do that, so it is an aircraft, it could be a rocket if they added rocket steering to steer in space, but it doesnt have that and instead has wings and control surfaces so its an AIRcraft
The X-15 takes about 90 seconds to burn all it's fuel up, it's taken to the skies with a massive airplane from which it "ejects" and starts flying hypersonically at mach 6.72. It is truly a rocket, and to try and launch it from the ground was a total waste.
@@MKNick10 its an aircraft, to prove this, it rides the air AGAIN, it rides the AIR meaning its an ARIcraft no matter what engine and range it has, even if it ejects, a rocket doesnt ride the air, but the X-15 does ride it, its an AIRcraft
Then a glider would also not be considered an aircraft because it is ejected from the tow vehicle? Some strawman arguments here. How about the v1? Rocket? Missile? UAV? Plane? Bomb? Sometimes semantics is just wasting time.
From the book, SR-71 Revealed, by Col Richard Graham, Ret. SR-71 pilot, on page 166: The design Mach of the SR-71 was Mach 3.2. However, when authorized by the Commander, speeds up to Mach 3.3 could be flown as long as the CIT limit of 427 ℃ was not exceeded. The maximum altitude limit was 85,000 feet unless specifically authorized higher. Later on, the book mentions that, on page 167-168: …the maximum-allowable airspeed of 310 KEAS-avoiding it was critical to providing aerodynamic controllability-and we were losing speed as rapidly as our altitude was increasing. See also: books.google.com/books?id=Bb7VDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142&dq=310+KEAS+in+sr-71&source=bl&ots=3My9WYq8yc&sig=ACfU3U3MksZNbG8gHZax0COGLHoz2YcFSw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi0n5fi_-PmAhWUQc0KHTz0C50Q6AEwDXoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=310%20KEAS%20in%20sr-71&f=false Nowhere in the book nor in his talk was Mach 4 mentioned.
the X-15 is no rocket, the X-15 has a rocket engine thats true, but its an AIRcraft because it RIDES THE AIR and has WINGS to do that, so it is an aircraft, it could be a rocket if they added rocket steering to steer in space, but it doesnt have that and instead has wings and control surfaces so its an AIRcraft
@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 - Well then, everything I was taught at Annapolis is wrong because you say so? You need to study the nomenclature of things before commenting. You clearly haven't here. We're done here.
@@justafanintexas7913 i got my information from the wiki and also from a few books i have, all saying the exact same thing, that the X-15 is an aircraft, plus an aircraft is something that rides the air to fly, the x-15 does that so it is classified as an aircraft bc it only rides the air
A Soviet pilot defected by flying a Mig 25 to Japan. The USAF inspected it and found the metallurgy and engines to be grossly inferior to what we had. Sorry but true!
Mach is airspeed. Speed of sound is not a constant but is variable. It decreases on higher altitude because of temperature. Mach 1 is 1235km/h at 20C at sea level. At 30.000ft, Mach 1 is 1091km/h. Aircraft Mach speed is mostly measured at higher altitudes. In summary, Mach 2 is around 2200km/h
1:55 No. 6 XB-70 valkyrie - 6 engines accelerating 240,000kg aircraft (that's equivalent to B777!!) to mach 3. Guys, no one noticed the mistake though! Anyway, good work Ms. Narrator! You carried away the audience 😂
The US government has never released the actual speed of the Blackbird and is still classified but we do know it out ran air to air missiles and ground to air missiles and never reached top speed doing it. that would put it north of mach 4.6 In addition the Soviets copied most everything we did by having spies and America haters sending them Classified technology. There superior technology was mostly stolen.
@@bigsilewis3660 Do you have any proof of this? It was retired in 11/22/98 & revived after Iraq invaded Kuwait and again for Bosnia. The Air Force retired the SR-71 in 1998, with 2 remained active with NASA until 1999.
Would not the Apollo lunar mission spacecraft be included in the same category as the Space Shuttle? If so, the Apollo missions to the moon were the fastest "aircraft" because they travelled through space and eventually "air". But so did the Space Shuttle while it was in outer space. But did the "Space Shuttle" really fly faster than the Apollo capsules while on approach to the Earth Orbit? Both "flew" in outer space. But neither the Shuttle nor the Apollo capsules had any propulsive power while landing other than "retro rockets". Since the Apollo capsules were farther away from the Earth while on approach, they had to be traveling faster than any "Space Shuttle". Otherwise, if the Space Shuttle was faster it would have gone farther away from the Earth than the Apollo spacecraft. Its simply a matter of speed relative to orbital distance. Thus the Apollo mission capsules were the fastest "aircraft controlled by a human", not the Space Shuttles. IMHO
@@daffidavit Yes depends on the original interpretation of "Fastest aircraft ever recorded" What constitutes an "aircraft" and on Earth or outside of Earth.
@@fredsalfa Agreed, we need to define when a "spacecraft" transitions into an "aircraft". In reality any spacecraft that returns to Earth becomes an "aircraft". No? It was good talking to ya. Be well. And as Spock always said, LLAP.
@Giada_De_Low_Rent_Tits Yes but Apollo space craft Im not sure youd classify that as an "aircraft". I would assume an aircraft at least has wings for level flight.
Top speed of the SR-71 though still considered classified is "rumored" to exceed MACH 4.56 and have an altitude of over 80,000 feet. This bird is technically a suborbital craft.
The "rumored" speed is wrong. Even Abraham Lincoln said you can't believe everything you read on the internet! The fast declassified speed is Mach 3.4+ (only a little +) set over Libya in 1986 because of exceptionally cold weather. (Read the story. It's interesting.) While the Air Force and NASA have slightly different ways to determine max speed based on inlet temperature at different locations, they are relatively close. The A-12 is rumored to have been slightly faster because of it's slightly smaller size but that is still classified.
number 2 and 3 is one plane at different times)), number 1, 2,3 and 5 is a total of 24 American planes)), and number 4 is 2400 Russian planes. I think American planes still need to be searched.)) Trump is afraid of Migs and regularly recalls them from fear.))
If you are talking about ground track speed, the NASA Space Shuttle performed atmospheric re-entry at a ground track speed equivalent to Mach 22. It only dropped below Mach 2 10 miles out from its 3 mile long landing strip.
Nevermind the fact the Mig-25's engines had to replaced literally after every flight when it's top speed was achieved because Soviet engine design was crap....
The XB-70 speed is a little low. They really don't know how fast it actually could fly because at one point the paint melted off and they had to back it down. The SR-71 cruising speed is 2193 MPH, cruising, meaning most fuel efficient for furthest range, not top speed. Will we ever know the true top speed the SR-71 could achieve? I doubt it. Such an amazing aircraft, and to top it all off, designed using slide rules and notepads. Not a single computer was used. Yes kids, things CAN be created without a computer or calculator!
I've heard a few OTHER expressions to go along with the "eff" for the F-111. It never was a popular bird with the Air Force, though it proved itself in 1986 in a strike on Qaddafi in Libya (One of the 14 aircraft was lost, hit by a AA-2 "Atoll" missile and went into the Gulf of Sidra, the Libyans recovered the body of one of the crew and the remains were returned nearly three years later), and the Navy all but revolted at the prospect of a carrier version of this contraption. Its problem, besides being one of the first "swing wing" aircraft in the US inventory, was that it was awarded to General Dynamics (they'd recently bought Convair, based in Ft. Worth, TX), supposedly on the basis that their design submission had the greatest commonality of parts between the USAF and USN versions, but in reality was a blatant political payoff to then-VP Lyndon Johnson, and his biggest supporter in the House, then Rep. James Wright, (D-TX, 12th), who later became Speaker of the House. There was understandable concern that JFK didn't want LBJ as his Veep for a second term, wanting to instead have brother Bobby (RFK was too young by a few weeks in 1960 to be able to be elected IAW the Constitution which required him to be 35 years old) in that role, so the GD award for this contract was intended to mollify LBJ and the Texas Democrats, especially to return LBJ to the Senate in 1964, which would have displaced the also-popular Ralph Yarborough. That didn't forestall the events of 22 Nov 1963 in Dallas, though the "Coup D'Etat" that some suspect LBJ of having orchestrated, or at least being the beneficiary thereof, has never been proven and likely never will be, if it existed at all.
People who have no idea about the subject, so the channel can just read out Wikipedia articles and make it sound like they did their homework, thats how channels like these work
Only with the use of TFR (Terrain Following Radar).As a pilot you needed incredible confidence in a machine that could go wrong to let it have your life in it's hands at that speed less than a second away from the ground!
A good friend used to work in Clovis NM maintaining F-111 electronics. A pilot once told him that he was perfectly relaxed flying 500 kt at 50-100 ft above the ground, as a glitch would end his life so quickly he’d never even know it.
I’m pretty sure she is the same fact checker that green lighted the four names of the pilots in the Asiana crash a few years ago. Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi To Low, Ho Lee Fook and Bang Dang Ow
Sorry but the sukhoi at #10 should not be there....The F-14 had a top speed of Mach 2.4 and was recorded at that speed. Also There were 11 A-12's built and they were replaced with the SR-71.
@@BJCulpepper President Johnson,saw there was no need for 2 programs that did the same thing ,that's why he cancelled Oxcart to begin with. As for their differences-As a modified version of the A-12 OXCART, the SR-71 Blackbird was about six feet longer, weighed an additional 15,000 pounds fully loaded, had a more prominent nose and body chines, had a two-seat cockpit, and carried additional optical and radar imagery systems.....That's it....both were made by Lockheed Skunk Works.Both performed the same mission,Reconnaissance. Oxcart was run by the CIA and the SR-71 was run by the Air Force.The A-12's came first....then the SR-71 took over their roles.
They are mixing things up... often they are actually listing the maximum operating speed, which is 2.34 Mach for the tomcat and 2.35 for the su-27, which can also go faster than that. The foxbat had the same operating limit of 2.83 as the foxhound, which for sure isn’t slower than its predecessor....
Forget about planes, rockets and missiles. Nothing goes faster than a two week vacation.
Movie Maker diarrhea is the fastest. You just think about it and sh*t is already in your trousers...
You are right like that comment brother
LOL.
Mach 10
What about a 2 month lockdown ?
Fastest jets that the citizen's know about, the rest are classified.
Pretty sure the Pentagon's "declassified UFO vids" are really just their own experimental craft, and they're letting everyone blame aliens just like they did in the late 1940s with their experimental jet fighters.
Dr. Steve / Psykatrope I feel like aliens do exist but they are all just microorganisms
@@Dad-lu1oi Why would we assume that the earth is the only planet with macro organisms? Yes, micro is likely much more common but macro can live in a lot of places.
Andrew T. Well then the life would have been as capable intellectually as us and would have already contacted us one way or another
@@ChildovGhad I don't know shit about aircraft but those us aircrafts were perfectly tracking that "ufo" so if it's classified aircraft it can't be that good if it was detected so easily
Ah yes mig 31 “blackbird” on the thumbnail xd
Lol they goofed that up 😂
You guys dont talk about the 09.
First thing I noticed and I said almost out loud
*THE FUCK
@@Lu.capuchino *we don’t talk about 09*
The channel is run by a woman soooooo
Seriously, did no one pick up on the narrator saying the SR71 was withdrawn from service in 1966?
i did pick that up about 1966
Funny, I was on Fort Irwin and Edwards AFB in the 80s and 2000s and I use to watch the Blackbird (SR-71) take off and fly over the bases.
@@coleparker Yup, watched them flying out of Kadena AFB on Okinawa in the early 80's.
Yeah I heard that too and was like that’s false
Nope. But I did pick up on the quiet little propaganda plug at circa 2.45 that 'the stainless steel Foxbat is an example of Soviet superior aircraft technology'.
"The SR-71 was decommissioned in 1976."
Try 1998 for US Airforce, 1999 for NASA. First flights were 1964 and they were introduced in 1966, so I have no idea where you get 1976 for decommissioned.
Also all top speeds should be stated as top speed publicly known.
Meh.
Its close enough
Settle down tough guy
@@pyromaniac354 if 22 years is "close enough" Then ww2 fighter planes was close enough to compete with cold war jets
@@seal4622 correct.
Close enough
@@pyromaniac354 I think we're inundated with enough bullshit information by the news and government, we don't need more. If they're going to put together a video at least check the data and make sure they're aren't talking shit. Enough with the stupidity in the world.
It is amazing how often we keep forgetting that we have limits on speed, not due to engines of the aircraft, but the materials made in building them and the craft around them because of friction from the atmosphere. The Foxbat and the F111 have always been two of my favourites. I used to live near an air force base that housed a couple of squadrons in Australia. Just loved watching them fly and they'd fly so low over our farm, that you could wave to the pilots, and I did get quite a few waves back when they flew that low. It was more amazing watching them turn the afterburners on at dusk. Seeing that massive trail of fire was like watching a jet turn into a rocket! Thirty years on, I still feel like the teenager I was when I watched them in the sky, gives me a big arsed smile on my face.
Reading this made me smile. Cheers from California
If MiG-25 ain’t using stainless steel, it probably go to 3,7 Mach max (maybe 3,5+)
Soviet planes in Australia? How did that happen.
@@saladinthedark7459 he meant the ‘varks
@@felixsteiner1295 the engines used wouldn't be able to stand the accelleration needed for the length of time, the plane wouldn't be able to carry the needed fuel, nor are they able to work in the altitude required for such speeds
3:39 it wasn't decommissioned in 1966. It was introduced in 1966 and retired in 1998 by USAF and 1999 by NASA. It was flown for 53,490 total flight hours and could fly over mach 3 for hours at a time with no trouble at all.
thank you!
I thought 1966 seemed wrong. Thanks for clarifying.
@Stuart Murphy So how fast estimate?
@@johnsmith-qc6gq top speed is classified, but it’s faster than what is shown in this video.
Thank you for setting them straight. That's what I came to do, but you beat me!!
Fun fact: The Sr-71 suffered an "unstart" (compressor stall) at Mach 3.3 while setting its speed and altitude record in 1965. While running through a 100+ item checklist for the re-start the engine, the aircraft actually gained altitude and maintained mach 3.2 through the timing gate. Yes, that's correct...the Sr-71, one of the fastest aircraft ever produced, set its speed record on ONE engine and still managed to beat the previous record set a few weeks earlier by something like 110 mph.
Yeah, at cruising altitude, it was almost more glider than jet plane.
The SR-71 Black Bird is still my favorite one, when it's grounded it drips out fuel even though theres no leaks or cracks or holes in it!!! Yet when in full flight it dosen't leak at all, it could be that the gravity of it while in flight holds the fuel in better. I just love it's design it looks so cool, and so powerfull!!!! What a flying beast!!!! Awsome!!!😜😜😜😳😎😎😎👍👍
@@arnoldlitke5084 The plane gets hot and expands, filling the gaps.
@@arnoldlitke5084 bruh what the hell are you saying
It's true top speed is still classified
Can we get a round of applause for the X-15 pilots, for the miracle of finding space for their planet sized balls on board 👏
No one calls it an "F Triple One"........ It's an "F One, Eleven"
Holy hell, I died when I heard this.
Also they way she pronounce Aardvark....
I used to work on the F model, we called them lawn darts :)
Ikr
@@OmahaWayne I thought that was the star fighter, Germans used to say if you want an f104, buy a small plot of land and wait
Aint nuthin faster that my Dad. He works for the government.. he's off at 5 o'clock and home by 4.30
And your mother probably says he hopes on and gets off within 2 mins
@Nick, Omg, that’s great
Lolol
Is it that hard to come up with your own jokes?
Nick Palliser That certainly beats me by 30 minutes. lol
I like how for the thumbnail they replaced the mig 31 with a SR71
I love how Concorde - a luxury commercial airliner, capable of carrying over 120 champagne-sipping businessfolks from Heathrow to JFK in under 3 hours at over Mach 2.0 - only just missed the cut...
Alarm bells should probably start ringing when the channel hasn't worked out the plural of "aircraft" is "aircraft" 😳
And if you make it to the SR-71 and hear "it was decommissioned in 1966". Uh....about that...
@C L Re-read my comment. The "it was decommissioned in 1966" is from **this stupid video**. The Blackbird was retired in 98 and put to supplemental use by NASA from 98-99. There was discussion of reinstating it in the early 2000s, but it was never pursued.
Alarm bells started when she described Foxhound as an example of superior Russian aircraft design.
@Chris Burn
RE: "Alarm bells should probably start ringing when the channel hasn't worked out the plural of 'aircraft' is 'aircraft' 😳"
Mistakes such as that are extremely common these days. I've been noticing them in all media for the last thirty-five years. And people get downright indignant if you try to point out an error.
@@spaceman081447 Yes, I've noticed it too, including in mainstream media. Often it feels like content is dictated to the work experience kid over a bad phone line with no knowledge of context. But I suspect an increasing number of people just don't have great language skills.
The "facts" being delivered in this video is absolutely embarrassing.
@@TugIronChiefAbsolutely right, the top speed listed is known top speed, the ACTUAL top speed is Classified information (Need to Know).
@@jumpercable20 not even that ... it's just a lot of incorrect details.
I think it's a safe to assume fact that nothing is beating the X-15
@@hossahunter22 That must be why our military is using them by the hundreds to defend our country.
@@jumpercable20 @Jumpercable wireless we have nuclear deterrence for that... I was obviously talking about aircraft speed; your reply makes me think you missed this context
My father worked on the design of some of the avionics of the B 70. The only thing he could tell my mother and I, a child of course, was that it was an aircraft that when it flew from LA to NY it had to slow down at Chicago. I was an Mechanic on F 15s for 5 years. Great aircraft! Thanks
In the 1970,s i arrended a dinner party at Peterson field colorado. Lots of airforce people there i sat next to a crew chief who worked on the B58. He said he saw a plane come in one day that had nearly melted. Its true speed was higher than advertised. I would not be surpried if that was true for Sr71 as well.
You might be thinking of the SR71traveling cross country.
@@oxcarthabu
No sorry this was before the sr. As it was a way to tell his kid and wife as much as he could, but yes I have heard of the SR described this way. Thanks, I like the discussion.
@@chuckbowen4334
I had worked on a lot of different aircraft before the 15, but the 58 was before my time. I had a former crew chief on the SR work for me and I worked for one from the 58. You are correct that they were both bats out of hell. They leaked a lot of fuel until they warmed up from the speed and the joints closed up. They could not be touched for quite a while after landing due to heat. Thanks for reading my replay.
I was on f16, when and where youve been stationed
The SR-71 and YF-12 were the only mach 3+ aircraft that could sustain that speed. All others could zoom to mach 3 but could not maintain that speed for very long.
I think the XB-70 could sustain Mach 3 for a while
@@rubiix2889 The XB-70 was designed for sustained Mach 3 + speed using Compression Lift. The outer wings folded down in flight to get this speed. However the heat generated from this the skin of the plane could not handle.
The SR-71 had a public published speed in excess of Mach 3.5. That's all that was said, Excess of Mach 3.5
@@Cutter2506 One SR71 pilot I heard talking about his experience, he was over the middle east taking surveillance photos, rockets were fired at them, he had to wait until his partner finished getting photos before firing the afterburner, he held it wide open so long, all he recalls was his partner, white as a sheet telling him he could slow down now, he did not tell what speed he had reached either.
@@Cutter2506 this is inaccurate but I believe it's because of a misinterpretation. The xb70 could sustain Mach 3 easily and it did and there wasn't a problem with the skin. There was a problem with the paint because it would tear off the paint. But it was only aesthetics. Secondly the SR-71 never went 3.5.
@@BJCulpepper Google 'sr-71+libya'. Major Brian Shul has an article about the mission in 1986 where he photographed the proof of an american airstrike on terrorist camps. With mach 5 SA-2 and SA-4 SAMs being fired at him he had the aircraft at over Mach 3.5.
The SR-71 is rated for Mach 3.2 in nearly any condition but with perfect conditions (which he claims were present) it will exceed Mach 3.5. The engines will push the plane well past 3.5 but heat created from the air rushing past the plane will incinerate it.
I'd link the article but youtube doesn't let you post links. It's like the second thing that comes up when you google, sr-71+libya. If you haven't do your self the favor of reading it, that cat is a fantastic writer. He tells a funny story about asking for an airspeed check from ATC, and brilliantly describes the view from the flight deck at 84k feet.
the MIG 25 interceptor was developed in response to the XB-70. It was a brute force design that was basically unsuited for anything else.....about 400 or more were constructed.
The XB-70 program was discontinued because of the huge costs, and the realization that it would quickly become vulnerable to new developments.
ICBMs were a much more cost effective solution.
About 1200 were constructed and were sold to countries around the world. It set 29 world records and is the fastest know fighter jet to this day and still keeps the record for a flight at the highest altitude.
It was build to counter the XB-70 and that was his only purpose. Although later modifications saw some moderate battle achievements.
@@BannedByMe Thank you for your informative reply.
The SR71 wasn't put out of service until 1998, nearly 20 years later than this video claims. Additionally, its primary role was reconnaissance, not to outrun other planes. It traveled so fast, other planes and even hostile air defense would likely not even know it was there.
Oh they knew it was there... But by the time that they could react, it was already gone!
ruclips.net/channel/UCkBxI3XjEKYRPUFZxjEBfGA
They knew it was there. Can’t outrun radar.
Actually USAF Captain Milbourn Apt flew the Bell X-2 to a top speed of Mach 3.2 and this was actually the first manned aircraft to ever exceed Mach 3. Sadly, within a few seconds of reaching this remarkable achievement, the X-2 aircraft started a slow roll that quickly went into an oscillating spin, where the G forces pinned Captain Apt in the seat and he never recovered. Both he and the X-2 were lost.
It would be nice if they used a picture of the X-2 instead of an X-1 variant.
ruclips.net/channel/UCkBxI3XjEKYRPUFZxjEBfGA
The F-triple one Ad-Vark. I love it when people make video about things that they know absolutely nothing about.
The SR 71 was not decommissioned in 1966. I know because I was active duty on a base that had them in 1995-1996.
And still in storage.
I Bet you were bud
It was decommissioned in 1998
@@xrickyyx4245 He didnt say he flew them. He said he was on a back the operated them. Huge difference. Lots of people work on airforce based.
They were decommissioned in 1998, well past 66', lmao.
She sounds like a girl I knew in 7th grade giving a report (with similar “accuracy...”).
Most channels have narrators, but the writing is done by the channel owners/writers. I dont know if this is the case with this one though.
They lost me when I saw the thumbnail. Picture of SR71 is labeled, "Mig31."
Bonus points for getting the speed wrong on the aircraft that has maintained the record for the official fastest aircraft in the world going on 50 years.
Not to mention she tries to sing the narrative...
Listen to how she upward pitches every other word, exactly how people sing...
0:19 ten
0:20 siukoi
0:22 origin
0:23 27
0:24 aircraft
0:25 maneuverable
Then next plane at
0:39 number nine
0:44 Aardvark
0:46 interdicter
Yeah that is what is what's so unfortunate about everyone and their cousin thinking they should and have the ability to create their own RUclips Channel. We get people who have no idea what they are talking about on here and spreading all this misinformation...
We also are now in the age of people making it their part to try to disprove long standing facts in order to seem smarter and more informed than everyone else...it's so annoying, when you hear well this study showed__________ isn't true...or actually __________ statement is wrong because of___________ (some bullshit, extenuating/exception/one off occurence. Its kinda scary too cause you never know what people's motives are these days...
Chinese spy
Sr-71's top speed is still classified.
@Cookiez R4 Yes both its service ceiling and top speed are still clasified. When it set the record for fastest production aircraft it did its second run on only one engine. I read an article a while ago where an aerodynamicist had done a study on the SR71and concluded the airframe as built was capable of Mach 6 but the engines were the limiting factor
Loved the lack of quality control, with the writing on the U.S. aircraft back to front.
They flipped it
Yah but no one cares except for you.
Kurogane 556 43
@Kurogane 556 48. I actually did some of the artwork on that exact F-15E 90-250. The Tiger on the nose was done in chalk, as it was forward of the intakes. Seeing it cut and flipped, and inaccurately reported is hard cringe.
U.S. flags are stitched on backwards on the shoulder!
The English Electric Lightning was a burner too, those double stacks were without equal!
I watched a video on that bird recently where a pilot said that the only reason the Lightning had wings was to keep the navigation lights apart, the thing was a rocket 👌 🍻
@@KumaBean yes sir! It was and still is one of THE most beautiful aircraft to have been built.
Was just saying where's the our E E Lightning interceptor
This video alone is probably the most praise Soviet era aircrafts will ever get lol.
totally agree. listening to a black person that barely knows anything (obviously, no racist intent meant), talking like the Soviets EVER stood a chance against us is quite hilarious.
The ”X-2 starbuster” actually shows an X-1, not an X-2.
Thank you, glad I'm not the only one who noticed.
I figured someone else would have pointed this out, but yeah, that's definitely the X-1. Anyone who remembers the pilot episode of Quantum Leap knows what the X-2 looks like. ;-P
The top speed of the SR-71 is still classified, but the Navy scuttlebutt was greater than 3000 mph and over Mach 4.0.
Yes, I read a story where the pilot admitted that during a flight over Libya in the 1980's, the plane exceeded Mach 3.5, but didn't give the real maximum speed. It's very possible that it could have exceeded Mach 4.0.
Everything about the SR-71 has been declassified. Don't get me wrong, a fantastic aircraft, but its real performance has been exaggerated over the decades. And it never flew over Russia.
@@machbaby Top speed is classified lol. It's stealth tech is classified, titanium body is classified. Complete engine technical doc is classified.
@@machbaby If you're trying to sound intelligent, you're failing miserably. There are plenty of things about the SR-71 that are still classified to this day. Especially it's top speed.
@@GopherBaroque61 It certainly wasn't a mach 4 aircraft- that I do know. There is a post down below that accurately explains why.
Tic-tac be like “hold my beer”
The XB-70 could cruise at Mach 3.1, and it got up to Mach 3.2 briefly. The SR-71 could cruise at Mach 3.2, and it got to Mach 3.5 in a dive. These are the only jets that legitimately operated above Mach 3. The MiG-25 can only really go Mach 2.8. The one that went Mach 3.2 literally melted the engines.
The YF-12 is just a slightly shorter single-seat SR-71 variant with missiles. If we're talking about SR-71 variants you need to include the A-12 and M-21, too, but that's silly.
This is a pretty bad video, but it's cool that it's actually mostly accurate. Although it's pointless to include anything rocket-powered because then why aren't you including everything NASA ever built? The Saturn V got up to Mach 8 with the first stage, and Mach 20 with the second stage. :)
No one ever said the vid commentator was smart......or accurate or eloquent.
@@letsgobrandon5800 Awesome 😆
Some of the gross weights are hilarious. I did performance analysis on the F-111 as young punk engineer at General Dynamics in the mid '70s. The gross weight was well in excess of 50,000 pounds!
NASA is a hoax, because they never break the sound barrier. Look at pictures of jets that are exceeding the speed of sound, and notice the vortex around it, then try to find one of the space shuttle, or anything else that NASA has built. There's a one mile radius around the launchpad, where the sound is so loud, that it will kill you, but the astronauts can sit 100ft, or so above it, and still talk to mission control without shouting? Conveniently, there just happens to be an "emergency escape" tunnel under the launchpad, that is accessible by a slide, that takes the astro-nots to an underground bunker. Look at the design of the SR-71, and then look at the space shuttle, and tell me that it can reach 17,500mph.
@@tysonatkins2236 I assume you’re being hilarious on purpose. I mean, you must understand that heat shields are a thing, and the NASA’s X-15 has gone much faster than than any jet, and the greatest limiting factor in supersonic flight is the exponentially-increasing heat caused by air friction. And if you go straight up like a rocket the air gets thinner very quickly and it’s easy to go much faster - the obvious limitation being that air-breathing engines don’t work when there’s no more air. But I love a good moon landing conspiracy.
This is the worst list I have ever seen.
why did they heart this lmfao
ehm182 _ To make him feel bad for what he wrote.
@@Test-ty1fl The 70 upvotes makes that like look ridiculous.
Yay I put the last like to hit 123 up votes
@@davidwarren2771 bruh are u dumb it's kph (kilometers per hour ) lol
The YF-12 was actually faster and had a higher ceiling than the SR-71 Blackbird .. robot marketing woman.
Lockheed SR-72 Hypersonic is.
@@RUNIFLAVOR76 That made sense.
Technically, the A-12 holds the initial honor since it was the built prior to the YF-12A.
@@RUNIFLAVOR76 Unmanned aircraft don't count. If they did, then the SR-72 (Mach 6) would rank 6th among unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The fastest Hypersonic UAV is the YU-74 Avangard which, in early 2018, reportedly reached a speed of Mach 27 (20,716.3 mph or 33,339.6 kph). Of course, the fastest man-made object is currently Voyager 1 which is traveling at Mach 49.56 (38,026.77 mph or 61,1698.15 kph).
@@GopherBaroque61 Yes that is also True.
The X-15 was a rocket not a plane, the SR-71 is the faster PLANE to ever fly to this day
A12 is actually faster. But all of its flight are classified. So its record are unofficial
@Andrew Dreyer: The X15 was a rocket powered plane/aircraft. And the video-title was fastest aircraft.
But it is not a jet-plane. That you are right about. ;)
X15 is absolutely an airplane.
Richard Johnson it’s a Rocket bud, it was dropped from a plane meaning it couldn’t takeoff
To those “plane experts” - def. of airplane: “a powered flying vehicle with fixed wings and a weight greater than that of the air it displaces.” Nothing about takeoff or power plant. Let’s get more informed before posting, folks.
The Mig25 was built in response to the XB-70, which didn't go into production. The mig wrecked it's engines every time it went mach 3.
Phrancis5
You definitely know more about aircraft than the producers of this video.
Check out the story of the Russian pilot Belenko.
MacGyver at large
Was that the pilot that defected to Japan?
@@damianketcham yes, he was.
Actually, I think the defection choice was by default, it was the only place in the range of his aircraft.
I read his book, and he had went into great detail of its workings.
He also went into great detail of a great many other things behind the Iron Curtain, but that is another story.
"The mig wrecked it's engines every time it went mach 3" - it is not true. the only problem was that when you go through the thermal barrier (mach 3) the sealant melted on the canopy, for this reason, pilots were forbidden to fly at speeds above 3,000 km/h.
The SR71 could maintain that speed all day if it weren't for having to slow down to refuel every 90 mins. Still the best.
The X-15 has to be launched from a B-52. The SR-71 took off from the ground under its own power and could cruise farther than the X-15.
The X-15 was also a short duration rocket with wings, not really an aircraft. The SR-71 was capable of taking off, landing and, with air refueling, very long flights.
In 1980 he co-wrote his autobiography, MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko, where he states that MiG-25 pilots were forbidden to exceed Mach 2.5, and he maintained that the Foxbat could not safely exceed 2.8. When told that MiG-25s flew at Mach 3.2 in the skies over Israel, he said that the engines had been completely destroyed by these speeds, and that the pilots had been lucky to live through the experience.
theaviationgeekclub.com/foxbat-vs-blackbird-mig-25-never-posed-credible-threat-sr-71-mach-3-spy-plane/
@@stevengeorges9046 I am sure the X-15 could have been modified so that it could take off and land. It was definitely an aircraft.
bbthing68 no it didn’t cruise further than x-15
@@bbthing68 Respect homie for actually posting the source site.
The fastest aircraft (air breathing) was not shown.
The Lockheed A-12 Oxcart was the ORIGINAL aircraft in the "SR" line.
It was slightly smaller but actually faster than the later SR-71.
The Oxcart was THE aircraft that penetrated deep inside Soviet airspace (ie, MOSCOW) regularly with impunity.
It was flown exclusively by CIA pilots (1964-1968).
The YF-12 was a USAF interceptor version without numerous stealth features of the A-12.
All of these types (except the YF-12) were capable of much higher speeds than is published.
As SR pilot Brian Shul stated, "We always had more speed available."
Probably in the mid Mach 4 to low Mach 5 numbers.
Pilots were likely told to never use that speed while monitored over enemy or friendly airspace.
Ignore Hubbard. At a minimum he is a troll. At worst he is attempting to gather valid information from people who may actually know the true numbers.
What you are saying is false. After the U2 was shot down the US made a pact with Russia that they would not fly over Soviet airspace. The Sr-71 flew only over international waters, but had side-looking cameras that from 85,000 ft. Could see Moscow. They NEVER flew "deep" into Russia as you claim.
@@wadopotato33
Your reading comprehension is very low.
The SR-71 was not physically capable of more than Mach 3.3 sustained in flight. Exceeding that would cause an “unstart” condition in the engine because the shock wave at inlet had moved in the wrong direction. Some may have exceeded the 3.3 slightly, but it wasn’t for long and it was very dangerous to the aircraft. An unstart would yaw the aircraft and could render it out of control and lead to a breakup.
Wow I didn't know the sr71 didn't fly over Soviet airspace, I always thought it did but couldn't be caught, and it was almost locked on by a mig, until a mig pilot defected to Japan and we found out that we over estimated the migs capabilities, but thanks for clearing that up for me..
nice video comparison
When talking about the X-2, a drawing of an X-1 was depicted.
The F-111 could also go supersonic at both low and high altitudes
It hurts my ears to hear someone use the non-word 'aircrafts'.
Her English was terrible
It is perfectly acceptable English. Either aircraft or aircrafts can be used as the plural. Well, certainly in England.
@@littlepippin8445 Bloody well isn't!
@@littlepippin8445 aircraft is aircraft who taught you english
@@Maximus20778 Either form is acceptable. I was taught by a teacher of English at grammer school. Who taught him, I am not sure?
To quote Maverick "The data on the Mig 25 is inaccurate" .
Thanks to victor belenko.
It could go Mach 3.2, but only once, and then it was toast.
Your quote is also inaccurate. In Top Gun they called them MiG-28's, not the MiG-25.
And yes, the MiG-25 could go well over Mach 3, but as already stated, flying at that speed for more than a brief moment would destroy the engines.
@@Fister_of_Muppets and the Mig 28 that Maverick referred to is really an American F-5.
@@jamest1148 I know. I was only referring to what the lines were in the movie.
"Soviet superior aircraft technology." Are you freaking kidding me? Stainless steel design? Sure, when CIA engineers examined Lt. Belenkos plane they found curious brown marks all over the wings. When they held up a magnet to it, the magnet was immediately attracted to it. Stainless steel is not attracted by magnets. Not to mention that the thing used radio tubes and not transistors.
SR-71 was definitely not decommissioned in 1966. It happened in 1990 and last ones flew until around 1999.
Yes , I chuckled at that . In the late 1960's - thru early 1970's ....... I was working on them ! Beale AFB and Okinawa.
The McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom set a record of Mach 2.62/1606 mph with water injection.
Fastest single engine jet was the F-106. Record set Dec 15 1959 @1525.95mph at 40,000 feet (M2.34), it still holds the record.
How exactly does the F-106 surpass the SR which flies 2400 mph at 85000 feet? Single engine I understand but the numbers are from an air breathing jet. Single or dual engine doesn't matter if you're promoting the fastest jet. The SR has and had no equal. End of story.
@@tckSR71A Because the SR-71 was twin engine jet, and If you actually read the comment, he said single engine...
Great Video! Very Informative!
The SR-71 was definitely NOT decommissioned in 1966. It was decommissioned in 1999.
ya Zane , I actually hit a dislike on this one for that reason too ! and to The Buzz - Do your Research Better . The people watching these types of videos will know a lot about these machines - that is why we check stuff out - for that one additional tid bit that someone maybe found that we can go - " OH NO SHIT !! I wonder where they found that " - and then disappear down a rabbit hole for 3 hours on a fun research quest.
Ya, I guess I did hear that rite, but dismissed it as bad hearing !!
NASA decommissioned theres in 99' USAF decommissioned in 90'
@@buddadocta3754 Looks like that error in when it was decommissioned came from Wikipedia - Surprise! Not the most accurate source for detailed information.
As someone who worked on the F111F model at Mtn. Home, I have to say that the data for the F111 is not accurate. While I will not say what the Mach number was, aircraft would come back from the FCF area and report highter Mach numbers than this.
Mach Ugly AF
And a Top 10 list made entirely from public information is going to include information that is classified? Why would your comment even make sense?
@@jdubhub68 It is obvious why the comment was made.
@Eric Velasquez That is why it had the total temp timer.
so are you saying the “F one-eleven” is faster than the “F triple-one”?
This is a wheewy wheewy good video, aewcwaft like the valkawee are reawwy coowow
WRONG: the fastest aircraft was the space shuttle; Mach 25 on reentry...
It was just a "brick" while re-entry.
Apollo 10 has the record of reentering at Mach 32...
@@N75911_ I have the speed record whilst trying to make it to the bathroom after a dodgy vindaloo curry. Living room to ass on toilet in 2.6 seconds.
LOL @ splashdown
I think what you meant to say was spacecraft
The SR-71 is still the fastest aircraft since the X-15 classifies as a rocket.
Anything that is designed to fly in the atmosphere is an "aircraft" Power source has nothing to do with it.
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 May as well clarify, the SR-71 is the fastest, manned, air breathing aircraft. There have been unmanned ram jets and scram jets that have gone faster.
@@davidappleman4066 such as the SR-72
A-12 was faster.
Very interesting and informative video.lot to know about aircraft.thanks for sharing.
That Aardvark is/was a badass jet! Terrain following radar on that thing is epic! Nobody can fly that fast that close to the ground...
I thought that this was an aircraft comparison not a Rocket Comparison!
It's the ten fastest planes, not just jet planes.
@@pahtar7189 In that case the Space Shuttle and the Apollo/Saturn V should be included.
I agree about the Space Shuttle as the X-15 and X-2 also needed boosters (planes) to get to altitude. I don't think anyone would consider the Apollo capsules "aircraft" even though they plummeted through the atmosphere with the tiniest bit of control.
@@pahtar7189 True but even the saturn V booster rockets had "stabilizer planes" next to the thrusters so technically that qualifies it as an "aero plane".
Per the site, according to Charlie Brown, who was part of the F-14 design team and a Northrop Grumman test pilot, “the Navy specs called for a top speed of Mach 2.34, but the Tomcat was tested for Mach 2.5.”
The MiG 31 that looks like an SR-71 in the thumbnail made me click this
Mig-31 - 2,8 mach. Sr-71 - 3,2 mach
Same lmao I noticed that too
"Aircrafts" is not a word. So I only saw the first 15 seconds.
@spudnic88 exactly, attacking someone who is speaking a 2nd language. I'd like to see these assholes try it in her language.
@@MrBJPitt dude she american! Aircraft is aircraft how stupid you all can be
@spudnic88 so are you stop liking your comment
Isn't it crazy that in 1959 we built something that could go moch 6.7 and the past 50 years nothing.
Really? surprise
The US Space Shuttle is the fastest aircraft by a long shot. Mach 28.6, do your homework dammit!
agree 100%
A R Hey defuse, key phrase here is AIR CRAFT!
It glides back to earth pretty damn fast, I'm thinking the x2 and x15 ain't truly air craft since their launched like a missile from a mother aircraft, and I'm curious why the Starfighter wasn't included, 1450 mph mach 2.2
It's technically a Glider. No motors
@@sumdumguy7197 because there's too many other aircraft that are faster than the 104 Starfighter. At least officially, I don't believe for a second that that aircraft can only go 2.2 Mach. I happen to know that the SR-71 flew a lot faster than anybody ever admitted.
There was an article I read in readers digest in the 70s at one point the SR71 reached Mach 4 for a few seconds, only to hold back because the canopy started to glow red and the pilot could hardly touch it even with thick gloves. Maybe NASA and the Pentagon are holding up some information and don't declare a specific speed, but instead says Mach 3++.
As I recall, anything above 3.2 is classified.
The theoretical maximum speed for the SR-71 is in the neighborhood of 4.5. As a point, anytime the Russians put up a highly specialized AC to break the record the US would routinely roll out an SR-71 and surpass it. We will likely never know the actual maximum speed for the SR.
The SR-71 flight manual is available online. I think it was compressor inlet temp mentioned in there as the big limiting factor. www.sr-71.org/blackbird/
I believe the airforce admits that it was capable of 3.5+ now.
The shuttle is an aircraft; it reached more than Mach 14 on re-entry. So not only the fastest aircraft but also the fastest glider!
I've got some ocean front property for sale in Kansas if you believe that hunk of shit goes that fast. Oh, and it's not a glider, it's a jet.
@@ItsMeScareCro And the winged vehicle of the Space Shuttle was the Orbiter.
X-15 is considered a rocket not enough fuel to lift off then fly high before having to land because it would burn through its fuel in a few mins
no, a rocket should indeed have enough fuel to take off under its own power and also the X-15 has a rocket engine thats true, but its an AIRcraft because it RIDES THE AIR and has WINGS to do that, so it is an aircraft, it could be a rocket if they added rocket steering to steer in space, but it doesnt have that and instead has wings and control surfaces so its an AIRcraft
More like 80 seconds.
The X-15 takes about 90 seconds to burn all it's fuel up, it's taken to the skies with a massive airplane from which it "ejects" and starts flying hypersonically at mach 6.72.
It is truly a rocket, and to try and launch it from the ground was a total waste.
@@MKNick10 its an aircraft, to prove this, it rides the air AGAIN, it rides the AIR meaning its an ARIcraft no matter what engine and range it has, even if it ejects, a rocket doesnt ride the air, but the X-15 does ride it, its an AIRcraft
Then a glider would also not be considered an aircraft because it is ejected from the tow vehicle? Some strawman arguments here. How about the v1? Rocket? Missile? UAV? Plane? Bomb? Sometimes semantics is just wasting time.
The Blackbird everyone, “You can’t kill what you can’t see”
You also can't kill what you can't reach
Amazing Video....
The SR 71's actual max altitude and speed is classified.
We can neither confirm nor deny Shane Pye's comment /s/Horowitz Bowrygard, Deputy IT Chief, Deep State
Sure it is.
You know this how?
Maybe. But it has a sweet spot at which it performs best and that is typically published.
@@bbthing68 it's most commons speed usage was around mach 4
From the book, SR-71 Revealed, by Col Richard Graham, Ret. SR-71 pilot, on page 166:
The design Mach of the SR-71 was Mach 3.2. However, when authorized by the Commander, speeds up to Mach 3.3 could be flown as long as the CIT limit of 427 ℃ was not exceeded. The maximum altitude limit was 85,000 feet unless specifically authorized higher.
Later on, the book mentions that, on page 167-168:
…the maximum-allowable airspeed of 310 KEAS-avoiding it was critical to providing aerodynamic controllability-and we were losing speed as rapidly as our altitude was increasing.
See also: books.google.com/books?id=Bb7VDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142&dq=310+KEAS+in+sr-71&source=bl&ots=3My9WYq8yc&sig=ACfU3U3MksZNbG8gHZax0COGLHoz2YcFSw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi0n5fi_-PmAhWUQc0KHTz0C50Q6AEwDXoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=310%20KEAS%20in%20sr-71&f=false
Nowhere in the book nor in his talk was Mach 4 mentioned.
The X-15 was classified as a rocket and SR-71 had speeds logged much faster than shown here.
Much much faster than what she said.
@@christophermcdonald2483 - A lot faster.
the X-15 is no rocket, the X-15 has a rocket engine thats true, but its an AIRcraft because it RIDES THE AIR and has WINGS to do that, so it is an aircraft, it could be a rocket if they added rocket steering to steer in space, but it doesnt have that and instead has wings and control surfaces so its an AIRcraft
@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 - Well then, everything I was taught at Annapolis is wrong because you say so? You need to study the nomenclature of things before commenting. You clearly haven't here. We're done here.
@@justafanintexas7913 i got my information from the wiki and also from a few books i have, all saying the exact same thing, that the X-15 is an aircraft, plus an aircraft is something that rides the air to fly, the x-15 does that so it is classified as an aircraft bc it only rides the air
A Soviet pilot defected by flying a Mig 25 to Japan. The USAF inspected it and found the metallurgy and engines to be grossly inferior to what we had. Sorry but true!
Nice to see F-15 on there, I played it for thousands of hours on DCS and even its predecessor Lock On and Flaming Cliffs.. Good times
And if you believe they haven't developed any hypersonic planes in the last 50 years you are just naïve.
... or correct... depending on how you look at it.
If you believe that they have, just because (no reason) maybe you live in a dreamworld.
good video .my MOST FAVIROTE was the Lockheed SR-71 BLACKBIRD
Mach is airspeed. Speed of sound is not a constant but is variable. It decreases on higher altitude because of temperature. Mach 1 is 1235km/h at 20C at sea level. At 30.000ft, Mach 1 is 1091km/h.
Aircraft Mach speed is mostly measured at higher altitudes. In summary, Mach 2 is around 2200km/h
partly right, but when i remember right, speed of sound is mostly related to density/material, not temperature.
@@oluenionloppu yes, but temprature also affects density of air, the colder the air the denser the air. The higher you go, the colder the air
@@yorle6527 Also the higher you go the less air there is meaning less friction on the aircraft.
There is so much wrong in this video. Mainly the speed conversions.
1:55 No. 6 XB-70 valkyrie - 6 engines accelerating 240,000kg aircraft (that's equivalent to B777!!) to mach 3.
Guys, no one noticed the mistake though! Anyway, good work Ms. Narrator! You carried away the audience 😂
The maximum weight was even higher - 249500 kg -, but the regular take-off weight was 238350 kg.
The SR 71 was not decommissioned in 1966, more like 1990 get you facts straight!
The A-12 was decommissioned in 1966, the sr-71 in 1999.
The US government has never released the actual speed of the Blackbird and is still classified but we do know it out ran air to air missiles and ground to air missiles and never reached top speed doing it. that would put it north of mach 4.6 In addition the Soviets copied most everything we did by having spies and America haters sending them Classified technology. There superior technology was mostly stolen.
SR 71 was mach 5+ and retired in the early 90s
@@bigsilewis3660 Do you have any proof of this? It was retired in 11/22/98 & revived after Iraq invaded Kuwait and again for Bosnia. The Air Force retired the SR-71 in 1998, with 2 remained active with NASA until 1999.
@@bigsilewis3660 yeah sure, I can already picture the fuselage first starting to melt and then collapse into a tin foil ball
Fastest aircraft controlled by a human is the Space Shuttle. On reentry it has a speed of Mach 23
Would not the Apollo lunar mission spacecraft be included in the same category as the Space Shuttle? If so, the Apollo missions to the moon were the fastest "aircraft" because they travelled through space and eventually "air". But so did the Space Shuttle while it was in outer space. But did the "Space Shuttle" really fly faster than the Apollo capsules while on approach to the Earth Orbit? Both "flew" in outer space. But neither the Shuttle nor the Apollo capsules had any propulsive power while landing other than "retro rockets". Since the Apollo capsules were farther away from the Earth while on approach, they had to be traveling faster than any "Space Shuttle". Otherwise, if the Space Shuttle was faster it would have gone farther away from the Earth than the Apollo spacecraft. Its simply a matter of speed relative to orbital distance. Thus the Apollo mission capsules were the fastest "aircraft controlled by a human", not the Space Shuttles. IMHO
@@daffidavit Yes depends on the original interpretation of "Fastest aircraft ever recorded" What constitutes an "aircraft" and on Earth or outside of Earth.
@@fredsalfa Agreed, we need to define when a "spacecraft" transitions into an "aircraft". In reality any spacecraft that returns to Earth becomes an "aircraft". No? It was good talking to ya. Be well. And as Spock always said, LLAP.
Flying brick
@Giada_De_Low_Rent_Tits Yes but Apollo space craft Im not sure youd classify that as an "aircraft". I would assume an aircraft at least has wings for level flight.
Mach:6.6.0
Meteor: Hold my beer
The space shuttle is the fastest aircraft.
The thing is the shuttle didnt have its own internal engines. On launch boosters and reentry its a glidder. K cool.
@@christopherj5780 Have you seen a space shuttle? It's bristling with huge engines everywhere.
space shuttle is classified as a rocket, not an aircraft
"SPACE" shuttle and "AIR" craft.
@@christopherboris1197 Except when it's flying though the... air.
Top speed of the SR-71 though still considered classified is "rumored" to exceed MACH 4.56 and have an altitude of over 80,000 feet. This bird is technically a suborbital craft.
The "rumored" speed is wrong. Even Abraham Lincoln said you can't believe everything you read on the internet! The fast declassified speed is Mach 3.4+ (only a little +) set over Libya in 1986 because of exceptionally cold weather. (Read the story. It's interesting.) While the Air Force and NASA have slightly different ways to determine max speed based on inlet temperature at different locations, they are relatively close. The A-12 is rumored to have been slightly faster because of it's slightly smaller size but that is still classified.
@Larry Kin Even more. The SR-71 was designed to cruise at mach 3.2, and was at it's most efficient state
@@jurek55
Sorry to say I didn't get it off the internet.
Awesome 😎
I can’t remember the last time I ever down voted a video but wow, this was hard to listen to.
number 2 and 3 is one plane at different times)), number 1, 2,3 and 5 is a total of 24 American planes)), and number 4 is 2400 Russian planes.
I think American planes still need to be searched.)) Trump is afraid of Migs and regularly recalls them from fear.))
@@floks700 the hell
Her diction is just bad - I totally agree.
IKR. It’s like she just got back from the dentist. The anesthesia is yet to wear off and she still has the cotton wads in her mouth.
SR-71 was also redeployed during Dessert Storm. You should mention that.
If you are talking about ground track speed, the NASA Space Shuttle performed atmospheric re-entry at a ground track speed equivalent to Mach 22. It only dropped below Mach 2 10 miles out from its 3 mile long landing strip.
2:44 "and this aircraft is an example of superior Soviet aircraft technology"
*hahahahaha*
Nevermind the fact the Mig-25's engines had to replaced literally after every flight when it's top speed was achieved because Soviet engine design was crap....
not Tokyo rose, but Moscow melinda
built at the same time as the SR-71, which is several orders of magnitude superior technology
russian bias XD
Зато МиГ-25 и Миг-31 несут вооружение, а SR-71 нет!
Russians. "The SR71 was decommissioned in 1966?" No. It was 1999
They're all impressive aircraft. Anyone willing to fly a plane that goes Mach anything is either one crazy person or the bravest... or both.
The XB-70 speed is a little low. They really don't know how fast it actually could fly because at one point the paint melted off and they had to back it down. The SR-71 cruising speed is 2193 MPH, cruising, meaning most fuel efficient for furthest range, not top speed. Will we ever know the true top speed the SR-71 could achieve? I doubt it. Such an amazing aircraft, and to top it all off, designed using slide rules and notepads. Not a single computer was used. Yes kids, things CAN be created without a computer or calculator!
For that last thing, yes, we get it. Amazing things have been created without technology to help us out, and the SR-71 is no exception
F111 is pronounced "eff one eleven"
And it's Aardvark, not advark.
I've heard a few OTHER expressions to go along with the "eff" for the F-111. It never was a popular bird with the Air Force, though it proved itself in 1986 in a strike on Qaddafi in Libya (One of the 14 aircraft was lost, hit by a AA-2 "Atoll" missile and went into the Gulf of Sidra, the Libyans recovered the body of one of the crew and the remains were returned nearly three years later), and the Navy all but revolted at the prospect of a carrier version of this contraption. Its problem, besides being one of the first "swing wing" aircraft in the US inventory, was that it was awarded to General Dynamics (they'd recently bought Convair, based in Ft. Worth, TX), supposedly on the basis that their design submission had the greatest commonality of parts between the USAF and USN versions, but in reality was a blatant political payoff to then-VP Lyndon Johnson, and his biggest supporter in the House, then Rep. James Wright, (D-TX, 12th), who later became Speaker of the House. There was understandable concern that JFK didn't want LBJ as his Veep for a second term, wanting to instead have brother Bobby (RFK was too young by a few weeks in 1960 to be able to be elected IAW the Constitution which required him to be 35 years old) in that role, so the GD award for this contract was intended to mollify LBJ and the Texas Democrats, especially to return LBJ to the Senate in 1964, which would have displaced the also-popular Ralph Yarborough. That didn't forestall the events of 22 Nov 1963 in Dallas, though the "Coup D'Etat" that some suspect LBJ of having orchestrated, or at least being the beneficiary thereof, has never been proven and likely never will be, if it existed at all.
@@grantrichards4950 In Oz we called them Pigs. They fly close to the ground. We miss them.
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This video has me saying eff a lot of things.
F-14 Tomcat also goes Mach 2.35 and goes from 0.8 to 1.8 in 90 seconds.
I knew from the beginning how this video will go. Why do these channels exist, and who watches them ?
People who have no idea about the subject, so the channel can just read out Wikipedia articles and make it sound like they did their homework, thats how channels like these work
All these planes aren't faster than my dad who left when I was born.
Better off without him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no there not
X-15 is the monster of all aircraft as far as propelled speed.
I love how about number 5 she says 'example of superior soviet technology' and then follows with the next 4-1 are US designs.
I think because its the only one that actually carried weapons on the top 5 imo
The F-111 was one of my favorite planes, faster that the speed of sound at 200 ft above the ground ..
I once saw an F4 Phantom break the sound barrier at flight deck level off to the port side of the ship, at about midships.
Only with the use of TFR (Terrain Following Radar).As a pilot you needed incredible confidence in a machine that could go wrong to let it have your life in it's hands at that speed less than a second away from the ground!
A good friend used to work in Clovis NM maintaining F-111 electronics. A pilot once told him that he was perfectly relaxed flying 500 kt at 50-100 ft above the ground, as a glitch would end his life so quickly he’d never even know it.
Leo Thorsness was quoted as saying his F-105g could go supersonic 20-25 ft "off the deck" - just sayin'.
@@stevestreet5063 not bad for a single engine fighter, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but they didn't call them the thud for nothing....
I’m pretty sure she is the same fact checker that green lighted the four names of the pilots in the Asiana crash a few years ago. Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi To Low, Ho Lee Fook and Bang Dang Ow
LMAO ! That was Epic! I laughed so hard I spotted ... ^v^
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Sorry but the sukhoi at #10 should not be there....The F-14 had a top speed of Mach 2.4 and was recorded at that speed.
Also There were 11 A-12's built and they were replaced with the SR-71.
A12's did not replace SR71's. SR71 is a reengineered A12 for recon missions. They are completely different and designed for different roles.
@@BJCulpepper President Johnson,saw there was no need for 2 programs that did the same thing ,that's why he cancelled Oxcart to begin with.
As for their differences-As a modified version of the A-12 OXCART, the SR-71 Blackbird was about six feet longer, weighed an additional 15,000 pounds fully loaded, had a more prominent nose and body chines, had a two-seat cockpit, and carried additional optical and radar imagery systems.....That's it....both were made by Lockheed Skunk Works.Both performed the same mission,Reconnaissance.
Oxcart was run by the CIA and the SR-71 was run by the Air Force.The A-12's came first....then the SR-71 took over their roles.
@@BJCulpepper I think you misread what Morgan Grey said.
You are both correct.
They are mixing things up... often they are actually listing the maximum operating speed, which is 2.34 Mach for the tomcat and 2.35 for the su-27, which can also go faster than that. The foxbat had the same operating limit of 2.83 as the foxhound, which for sure isn’t slower than its predecessor....
The SR-71 also holds the distinction of being the sexiest plane ever built.
There's a big difference between being able to "REACH" and being able to "MAINTAIN"
Concord
All of these aircraft can reach and maintain these speeds, the only difference is the duration.
You forgot the USAF B-58 Hustler,,,look it up...
It 1950 technology
Oh yeah, they forgot about the hustler....
B-58 had a posted max speed of mach 2, but it sure was a looker.