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  • @FoundAndExplained
    @FoundAndExplained  6 месяцев назад +102

    Oh I accidently set this live early and now everyones seen it lol! Ok haha come play with me - playwt.link/foundandexplained

    • @pyeitme508
      @pyeitme508 6 месяцев назад

      Lol 😆

    • @CallsignAegis
      @CallsignAegis 6 месяцев назад

      I will think about it

    • @jerielsamuel8015
      @jerielsamuel8015 6 месяцев назад +1

      Happy Birthday Nick

    • @edwardfletcher7790
      @edwardfletcher7790 6 месяцев назад +3

      It's NEVER F-111, it's F One - Eleven.
      C'mon mate, you're an Aussie, its our favorite plane of the 20th century !!
      PS : Happy Birthday 🎂👍

    • @trainanimator8150
      @trainanimator8150 6 месяцев назад

      does this mean there will be another war thunder stream soon?
      I HAVENT FORGOTTEN

  • @Chris-ok4zo
    @Chris-ok4zo 6 месяцев назад +298

    Never ceases to amaze me the lengths man will go to fully embrace the phrase "Gotta go fast".

    • @MrGrandure
      @MrGrandure 4 месяца назад +5

      The length and the strength is for the ladies

    • @LIONGOD
      @LIONGOD 3 месяца назад

      all in the name of scifi

    • @adrianellis4497
      @adrianellis4497 Месяц назад

      Don't matter how fast they think they have achieved, a battered Audi will overtake for sure with a nutter driving😂

    • @peterhall8572
      @peterhall8572 5 дней назад

      THe history of mankinds development, Further Faster Longer , Its what we do

  • @huwzebediahthomas9193
    @huwzebediahthomas9193 6 месяцев назад +772

    If the SR-71 was around in the 1960's, the mind boggles on what could be around now.

    • @dextermorgan1
      @dextermorgan1 6 месяцев назад +37

      Think Darkstar from Top gun. 😉

    • @giovannibonifati
      @giovannibonifati 6 месяцев назад +78

      ​@@dextermorgan1so far SR72 (Before Lockheed hid everything about it) is basically the Darkstar

    • @4dbullshitpatroll6
      @4dbullshitpatroll6 6 месяцев назад

      transgender woke super soldiers who are always offended.

    • @weregarurumon3202
      @weregarurumon3202 6 месяцев назад +29

      Satellites

    • @mikemorris3608
      @mikemorris3608 6 месяцев назад +22

      It makes me laugh it’s still recorded as the fastest plane

  • @UncleRayRayGarageEmporium
    @UncleRayRayGarageEmporium 6 месяцев назад +433

    1992, Okinawa, Japan: While playing volleyball with my fellow Marines, I noticed a contrail at high altitude. It was the classic doughnuts on a rope shape. I couldn't see the aircraft, but I could see it forming and moving. It crossed the entire view of the sky in about 20 seconds. No sound, no sonic boom after it passed from sight. Very impressive to witness.

    • @thedaredevil1907
      @thedaredevil1907 6 месяцев назад +49

      Saw the same thing driving thru Kansas. Passed a military base of some kind maybe 40 miles b4 isaw it. All you coukd see was this weridly high contrail with puffs of smoke in rings around the main trai. Thing had to be moving 30 to 45 seocnd from horizon to horizon. Had too the windows down not a sound and somthing moving that fast i expected to heard a boom at min a roar. Grew up going watch plains fly out of the base with my grampa at the base in south GA. He was airforce on the east cost and off all the storys and difrent jets that u saw. I ever heard of anything that coukd move that fadt let alone doing so with zero noise. Any military jet is insanely loud. This was 2006 or 2007

    • @aaronpetzel4645
      @aaronpetzel4645 6 месяцев назад +25

      Pretty sure I saw this over San Diego about 2 years ago. It was super high and it looked like the ignition sequence of a 2nd aircraft. The sun had set but was still illuminating everything perfectly, as it was at what looked like an extreme altitude. For a second I was excited as I thought I was witnessing a supernovae in real time. As it started moving north it definitely looked like a “pulsed” contrail. As it got further away it looked like a satellite but it was moving faster, and when it moved north at first it looked like it was a red glow of an engine

    • @philipchesley9615
      @philipchesley9615 6 месяцев назад +16

      Yep saw them high up in the southwest desert late 80s
      Olde news but always fun to tune in lol
      Cheers!

    • @keirfarnum6811
      @keirfarnum6811 6 месяцев назад +12

      I saw a comment from a guy on a UFO video who saw what looked like a satellite that covered the entire sky in only a few seconds. He obviously didn’t know if it was a UFO or black project, but I can’t help but think we have craft that are literally “out of this world.” It’s really hard not to speculate about the possibilities sometimes. Is the TR3b triangle type craft one of ours; or something else entirely? I see so many people making comments about having seen these things flying around at low altitude and traveling slowly that it’s hard to ignore; the numbers (if I could quantify them) are staggering!

    • @MrNEOANDY
      @MrNEOANDY 6 месяцев назад +12

      Whatever it was...it was powered by Pulse Detonation Engines

  • @TimTheInspector
    @TimTheInspector 6 месяцев назад +164

    Airline pilot here, earlier this year I watched donuts-on-a-rope contrails being made up close by the most unexpected source. At cruising altitude just before top of descent into LAX we were passed by a 737 a thousand feet above. Both the 737’s engines were leaving contrails that were sort of rolling back on themselves, forming into rings at regular intervals. I suspect it had something to do with the mixing of hot turbine exhaust and cool bypass air forming ring vortices and the conditions were just right whether it was speed, thrust, temperature, moisture, or some other factor(s) causing it. In one way it’s disappointing they weren’t being produced by some black triangle but in another way it’s fascinating that they were formed by such a benign and common type.

    • @nickabel8279
      @nickabel8279 5 месяцев назад +7

      This is def just a gov plant

    • @_sansvisage
      @_sansvisage 4 месяца назад +2

      @@nickabel8279 and? bro are you a pilot, our technology isn't that advanced, but like realistically in 2024 it could exist, it's not like what he said is not true as well that could explain the sightings in the 80's when our main plane was the f18 hornet and we weren't that technologically advanced yet.

    • @flechette3782
      @flechette3782 2 месяца назад +1

      I got video of a typical two engine passenger jet (couldn't tell which brand) leaving the dreaded "donuts on a rope' contrail. It was probably cruising at just the right altitude where water starts to condense out of the exhaust. Karman vortex and voila'. intermittent contrail.

    • @UnitSe7en
      @UnitSe7en Месяц назад +1

      That i'd really like to see video of, just to examine the flow.

    • @evilpandakillabzonattkoccu4879
      @evilpandakillabzonattkoccu4879 19 дней назад

      Thank you!!! That (using Occum's Razor) just answered my "I wonder what caused that contrail" question! I appreciate it!

  • @terryjohns8176
    @terryjohns8176 6 месяцев назад +119

    I grew up in Barrow Alaska on the arctic seaboard and in 91' and 92' while out skywatching we saw a few times, these pulse craft flying incredibly high covering huge distances in mere minutes. One time we watched one making a big arc in the sky with another craft cutting the arc in an apparent attempt to cut it off . We didnt see what happened as they flew out of our sight headed north east.

    • @Denverian
      @Denverian 6 месяцев назад +1

      true north-east? mag north-east?

    • @CallMeByMyMatingName
      @CallMeByMyMatingName 6 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@Denverianmost likely...

    • @terryjohns8176
      @terryjohns8176 6 месяцев назад +3

      well.. I just guesstimated it by where the point is.( point barrow, northern most tip of north America so probably true north.@@Denverian

    • @keirfarnum6811
      @keirfarnum6811 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@terryjohns8176
      Barrow must have been an interesting place to live. I lived in Nenana for a short time before moving to Kenai and Los Anchorage (my dad and I liked skiing so being near Alyeska was important to us); so I didn’t really get to experience the bush at all. That’s a whole different world up there.

    • @iamarizonaball2642
      @iamarizonaball2642 4 месяца назад +1

      i live in the sonoran desert, i cannot imagine living THAT far north.

  • @HOTSHTMAN53
    @HOTSHTMAN53 6 месяцев назад +141

    I know a lot of you wont believe me, but back in around 2012-2013, new years eve, some missile or plane flew over Ontario, Canada. It was so fast and the “shockwave” was so strong that it shook the house and made a sound as if a huge piece of ice fell from the roof. I went to school the next day and everyone at school heard it, even though we live far apart from each other. Literally everyone. It was the buzz in high school. Ive been to several air shows so i am well aware how jets sound like. Funny enough, so many people heard it in Ontario that the same morning there was a segment on CP24 stating that this was all just something related to the weather and how the cold air interacts with the atmosphere (something like that idk) blah blah. This “boom” occurred at around 9-10pm and very cloudy conditions. As i started looking into conspiracies and especially those related to flight, the second i heard about pulse based jet engines, i knew some top secret flew over the province. It would have been perfect conditions for it, low clouds, cant see a thing, slightly foggy weather, no sun, thick clouds, etc

    • @HOTSHTMAN53
      @HOTSHTMAN53 6 месяцев назад +27

      Whats funnier is after the segment aired on multiple broadcasts, several weeks later i tried finding the exact videos and it was as if everything got wiped from the internet

    • @linuxuberuser
      @linuxuberuser 6 месяцев назад

      ta da!@@HOTSHTMAN53

    • @KeithZim
      @KeithZim 6 месяцев назад

      They hide lots of stuff. Just watch how many things each incoming president about faces on... Regardless of country.... "im gonna do", learns truth, " oh im really ignorant and that last president was probably way smarter them me. oh crap what will I do? crap crap crap.... I need to pray" ..... Or thats how I imagine the first few thoughts go after reading that top secret briefing statement...

    • @rejectedgaming1019
      @rejectedgaming1019 6 месяцев назад +6

      Try out some internet archives you would de surprised

    • @CASA-dy4vs
      @CASA-dy4vs 6 месяцев назад

      Or it could actually just be a weather event lol this is why many conspiracy theories fail. Unlike flat earth which is absolutely ridiculous but still believed by many

  • @jettack531
    @jettack531 6 месяцев назад +183

    Looks like if a sr-71 and xb-70 were combined

    • @RUNIFLAVOR76
      @RUNIFLAVOR76 6 месяцев назад +6

      That’s Heavy.

    • @everypitchcounts4875
      @everypitchcounts4875 6 месяцев назад +8

      Like Darkhorse

    • @ryugakishatu6372
      @ryugakishatu6372 6 месяцев назад +21

      Kinda wish the XB-70 saw service. Still one of the coolest designs IMO

    • @martinkasper197
      @martinkasper197 6 месяцев назад +6

      With a small bit of Concorde (on the air inlets)...

    • @josephlannert969
      @josephlannert969 6 месяцев назад +5

      I was just thinking the same thing! And that the parasite aircraft looks like the child of a F-117 and an X-15

  • @ck2994
    @ck2994 6 месяцев назад +36

    Scramjets were designed in the 1930s. Material science took decades to create materials that could withstand the heat created by travel at the speeds the engines were capable of. The program trying to design a fusalage for the engines was public in the 80s.

  • @egaroadkill8701
    @egaroadkill8701 6 месяцев назад +36

    Back in late 80's one doughnut on a rope contrail, with associated seismic track, drew a straight line to Johnston atoll while another one to Eniwetok. I heard others tracked similarly. I even had the displeasure to hear the "sky ripper" early in the morning in the Navada desert.
    I have a friend from childhood who had the life path I dreamed of being an Air Force aerospace scientist from 79 till 2010. We met at a school reunion. I asked him about what he could tell me and he replied it's beyond your imagination. I reminded him of just how advanced both our imaginations were back when we were in school, and he said that it was still beyond that. I had an uncle who was an Air Force LT. General that served in the technical field for 40 years. He pretty much said the same. He also knew about my technical knowledge and imagination.
    The US has been working on some seriously advanced stuff. I can see why the SR-75 is no longer with us. It's out dated and a waste of money.

  • @DFWRailVideos
    @DFWRailVideos 6 месяцев назад +150

    Flying a pulse-jet powered aircraft over populated areas in England, especially only forty years after WW2, is going to raise some eyebrows.

    • @CASA-dy4vs
      @CASA-dy4vs 6 месяцев назад +19

      “Hey billy, come get me my 30mm bofors from the garage!”

    • @glitchedmatrix55
      @glitchedmatrix55 6 месяцев назад

      But who would "reap the whirlwind" in that scenario? And how would they?

    • @thejdmguru621
      @thejdmguru621 6 месяцев назад

      Isn’t it a Pulse Detonation Engine

    • @jwaller51
      @jwaller51 6 месяцев назад +4

      And you'd do what? Send a stern letter to the Ministry?

    • @badlaamaurukehu
      @badlaamaurukehu 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@thejdmguru621Hybrid

  • @huwzebediahthomas9193
    @huwzebediahthomas9193 6 месяцев назад +65

    For very remote airbase, RAF Macrihanish has surprisingly extremely sophisticated ground electronic equipment. Another rub chin been RAF Benbecula, also remote Scotland. Might be backup.

    • @AURORAREVEALNOW
      @AURORAREVEALNOW 6 месяцев назад +6

      The Aurora operated from there.

    • @badlaamaurukehu
      @badlaamaurukehu 6 месяцев назад +1

      Prof Simon Holland has a video about this.

    • @FayeClegg
      @FayeClegg Месяц назад

      High likelihood Glensanda is also a secret submarine base masked as a quarry.

    • @suprarcjpop545
      @suprarcjpop545 23 дня назад

      Scotland also has the UK nuclear submarines in Faslane. Scotland is a very important relatively unknown military presence.

  • @lionemessi
    @lionemessi 6 месяцев назад +16

    I have been hearing about this plane for about 20 years. Im starting to think bigfoot flies it

  • @DavidMitchell79
    @DavidMitchell79 2 месяца назад +10

    In the spring/summer of 1997 I observed something appearing to be the mother craft for this flying from west to east over Grass Valley and Nevada City in California. What attracted my attention was the very "solid" looking contrails that did not dissipate as quickly as normal contrails. The plan form was similar to the SR-71 but was much larger. The forward fuselage was longer in relation to the delta wing area than that of the SR-71. There were no inlet spikes or engine nacelles in the leading edge of the wing. Having maintained the navigation systems of the SR-71 for nearly 7 years during my USAF career, I was certain this was not one of them. The aircraft was flying low and slow and over a low population area of northern California. If that was this mother ship, I suspect it must have had some form of IFE (in flight emergency) that necessitated the slow flight envelope. Around the same time frame, I would see three KC-10 tanker aircraft flying in formation over my residence at Penn Valley, CA on Thursday afternoons. About a half our later I would hear a loud growling sound going high overhead. Looking up, I could see nothing, No contrails no aircraft. The sound travelled from the south horizon to the north horizon in approximately 30-45 seconds. Yes, the government and contractors can keep aircraft projects secret for years before the public ever hears about them. The F-117 was a prime example.

    • @RallyRacingVideo
      @RallyRacingVideo 2 месяца назад

      This is the first time I ever read an account of someone witnessing the plane in the late 90s. Do you remember what color was the alleged "mothership" that you saw?
      Were you able to notice a-la SR-71 nacelles on the aircraft in question?
      As for the other story with formation of KC-10 aircraft on Thursday afternoons and the loud growling sound that used to came shortly after... you described it like it happening around the same time, if you were to narrow it a little would you say that KC-10 Thursday afternoons sightings and growling sounds happening all in the late 90's as well or was it before like in the early-mid 90's?
      In the end, honors on your service with SR-71.

  • @forbiddenera
    @forbiddenera 6 месяцев назад +12

    9:14 250 miles at Mach 15.. so like 1.3 minutes of flight time 😂😂

    • @matthewdavies2057
      @matthewdavies2057 2 месяца назад +1

      I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed that.

  • @keirfarnum6811
    @keirfarnum6811 6 месяцев назад +13

    That last little bit about the oil platform worker and “seasoned aircraft ‘observator’ [sic]” (it’s “observer”) is a reference to Chris Gibson, who witnessed a triangular craft being escorted by two F111s in the North Sea in the 80s or 90s (IIRC). Gibson was an award winning aircraft recognition expert who couldn’t identify what he saw from the oil platform he was working on.

  • @glenwoodriverresidentsgrou136
    @glenwoodriverresidentsgrou136 6 месяцев назад +6

    Donuts on a rope is common on many commercial jet engines, especially when the contrails age for a few minutes.

  • @theeddorian
    @theeddorian 6 месяцев назад +12

    One fact that you missed concerning the Southern California hypersonic sonic booms, is that the USGS seismograph system that detected these, was replaced by the Department of Defense, according to many sources. This new system, somehow, no longer detects, or possibly filters out sonic booms from aircraft.

    • @steverogers8163
      @steverogers8163 5 месяцев назад +1

      They just do what the NOAA sonar array in the Puget Sound region does. It periodically shuts off for a few hours when submarines return to their base in Bangor, WA. The Hood Canal floating bridge will also periodically raise up to let invisible boats pass by, really annoying if you're a local as the wait time can be up to 30 minutes. Though on occasion a sub will pass on the surface, just don't visit expecting to see that.

  • @Werrf1
    @Werrf1 6 месяцев назад +20

    Alex Hollings of Sandboxx News has a very good investigation into "Aurora". His conclusion - yes, it was probably a real vehicle (or vehicles) being tested during the 80s and 90s, but it likely didn't lead into a production capability.

    • @thomasblankinship98
      @thomasblankinship98 4 месяца назад

      They were built by Lockheed Skunkworks. They are the reason the Blackbird was retired.

  • @FluidKaos
    @FluidKaos 6 месяцев назад +12

    I have the Testors model you built some of your CGI around. Built it back in the 90s. It came with a "Rusian satellite image" of Area-51 as part of the background/instructions before such things were commonly available. It'd be great if this thing were real; but, having worked with or for the DoD for decades, and watching space things happen as an enthusiast, I'm not convinced this got past paper studies and design ideas. I'd be more than excited to find out I'm wrong though.

  • @ibeatyoutubecircumventingy6344
    @ibeatyoutubecircumventingy6344 6 месяцев назад +5

    DARPA and Skunk WOrks are like Hold my Beer!

  • @Huxtive
    @Huxtive 6 месяцев назад +15

    I love how the plane turns its rocket engines on and off. It's like farting countless times

    • @WolfeSaber9933
      @WolfeSaber9933 6 месяцев назад +3

      They are pulse engines.

    • @Huxtive
      @Huxtive 6 месяцев назад

      ik @@WolfeSaber9933

    • @shortyyazzie
      @shortyyazzie 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@WolfeSaber9933 Don't mean the plane ain't farting.

    • @alwynwatson6119
      @alwynwatson6119 6 месяцев назад +1

      But realistically puls detination engines would be hybrid plasma. That way the detination could be electromagnetically controlled and happened thousands of times a second.

    • @WolfeSaber9933
      @WolfeSaber9933 6 месяцев назад

      @@alwynwatson6119 Do you mean detonation?

  • @PeriodicAerospace
    @PeriodicAerospace 6 месяцев назад +5

    I guess that we might have to wait for this one to be declassified too

  • @soniccdx
    @soniccdx 6 месяцев назад +12

    i remember building the Testors model kit of this a long time ago, and always wanted to get the plane which piggybacked on it but never got it,and probably is the reason why i kept building similar looking planes in Kerbal Space Program ...kinda exciting to see a video on the plane after a long time

    • @nathanwilgus529
      @nathanwilgus529 2 месяца назад

      Yhea I remember that model......in fact think it is setting in the shed on a shelf

    • @danielsacks7152
      @danielsacks7152 5 дней назад

      I remember getting mom to buy me a model at the drugstore in the '80's. It was supposed to be of the new top secret stealth fighter. It was black, rounded, and had a fuselage like an SR71 but had an almost oval wing shape. After the F117 came out I realized that it in no way resembled the "wobbly goblin" with its angular construction. I would bet you even money that it was intentional "disinformation" .

  • @thetruenolan6655
    @thetruenolan6655 6 месяцев назад +5

    The contrail shown at 20:52 is almost exactly like one I saw in north Florida about 2010. I wondered what kind of meteorological conditions would make such a track but did not think about any kind of pulsejet.

  • @exist
    @exist 6 месяцев назад +8

    Funny enough, in the 80s/90s, seismic activity was found and recorded in high altitude. Similar altitudes the Blackbird operated in. They recorded the strange sonic booms, and when they marked them on a map, all the activity was coming to and from Bakersfield, CA, which if people didn’t know, was where Lockheeds old facility was. They also found the same seismic activity that travelled in the direction of Nellis AFB, as well as to Groom Lake “Area51”. Seems like this could’ve been the SR75 prototype in early testing.

    • @cursingarrow8065
      @cursingarrow8065 11 дней назад

      Yeah I think that entire valley is named aerospace valley for all the sighting of planes and sonic booms in the area around it

  • @rustymustard7798
    @rustymustard7798 6 месяцев назад +5

    Around 1997-1998 i was working at a small remote airport in the southwest desert. I felt and heard a strange low rumble. I went outside and saw a "doughnut on a rope" contrail stretching across the sky.

    • @captaintoyota3171
      @captaintoyota3171 6 месяцев назад

      Yeah its impossible to know but coulda been scram jet or others testing.

  • @Gelaviation
    @Gelaviation 6 месяцев назад +11

    Looks like a modern SR-71

    • @WolfeSaber9933
      @WolfeSaber9933 6 месяцев назад +2

      Like the Aurora or the SR-72 Darkstar.

    • @Gelaviation
      @Gelaviation 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@WolfeSaber9933 True

  • @johnbrandon5493
    @johnbrandon5493 6 месяцев назад +18

    The "SR-75 Penetrator" and "XR-7 Thunder Dart" were manufactured by the Testor's Model Company, and while very sexy looking had no real aircraft as their basis. Testors also did a number of other conjectural stealth aircraft around this time.

    • @beboy12003
      @beboy12003 6 месяцев назад +1

      I used to have both models. As far as i'm concern, they exist

    • @warlocc-paul
      @warlocc-paul 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@beboy12003 The drone is on display in Ohio. They exist.

    • @Donleecartoons
      @Donleecartoons 6 месяцев назад +2

      Sure you're not thinking of the D-21,@@warlocc-paul ?

    • @Donleecartoons
      @Donleecartoons 6 месяцев назад +1

      I remember seeing the SR75 model in stores back in the late 80s, early 90s, about the same time as Testors' F-19 was in stores (The "Ghostrider" in Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" seems to have been based on the F-19 model). At the time I thought that Testors' designers were simply taking the SR-71 and extrapolating from it for both kit designs.

    • @warlocc-paul
      @warlocc-paul 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@Donleecartoons You're right, that's the one. Hard to ignore the similarities to this video, though.

  • @ThePuppetmaster923
    @ThePuppetmaster923 6 месяцев назад +3

    the name of the plane makes me slightly uncomfortable

  • @TechXTech91
    @TechXTech91 6 месяцев назад +8

    No surprise. People thought the F16XL was never actually built and now there's 2 of em at edward's afb. I have also seen some crazy high altitude contrails that were definitely far higher than any commercial airliner or anything like them that looked similar to your video
    My brother was in desert storm. he tells me stories about the sr71 and such all the time. I once asked him if he ever saw anything "similar" to the sr71 but looked different and he always says "there was this one jet that they had all military personal on base go to their rooms except for the people with top secret clearance. It sounded like the sr71 on landing, but we all knew about the sr71, why hide us?"

    • @RallyRacingVideo
      @RallyRacingVideo 6 месяцев назад

      Second paragraph blows my mind and widen my eyebrows. What base he heard that plane that was hidden from employees eyes?

    • @gitupmechavvy2569
      @gitupmechavvy2569 5 месяцев назад

      Probably something like the TR3A/whatever you want to call it that was a supposed targetting designator craft for the nighthawk, like what that photographer got over Amarillo TX a year or two + ago

    • @kdrapertrucker
      @kdrapertrucker 2 месяца назад

      What do you mean, there were 2 F-16A's that were modified into F-16XLs. One single seat, and one twin seat. They were prototypes for a all weather low altitude penetrator. They lost out to the F-15E strike eagle. Since then they have been used by the Air Force and NASA for technology demonstrators for everything from integrated skin antennas for stealth aircraft to adaptive wing technology.

  • @xodiaq
    @xodiaq 6 месяцев назад +8

    If Groom Lake had to have the crazy long runway, how could it be landing and taking off at Midway, Wake, and Scotland that had standard runways?

    • @peterkropko1
      @peterkropko1 6 месяцев назад +1

      I agree, or it is so powerful, it doesn't need so long runaway.

    • @ianandjohnandmaniandreni9323
      @ianandjohnandmaniandreni9323 6 месяцев назад +4

      The runway at Machrihanish in Scotland is one of the longest in Europe and was designated to be one of the Space Shuttle emergency landing strips due to it's length.

    • @VectorCrafty
      @VectorCrafty 6 месяцев назад +1

      Because it didn’t need a long runway to land once it launched XR-7, or to take off without it.

  • @Michael_Michaels
    @Michael_Michaels 6 месяцев назад +13

    Man, you've been covering all of my favourite secret black projects so far! Amazing job! Thank you!
    I would like to give you a suggestion: the animations realism would be so much better if you darkened the skies where these high altitude planes fly. I mean, the SR-72 fly so high that the sky is pitch black! Thank you, again!

  • @4dbullshitpatroll6
    @4dbullshitpatroll6 6 месяцев назад +4

    If I designed a dual aircraft, I would have the smaller craft merged into the front of the larger craft so that it only has one cockpit, in the smaller craft. Instead of ejector seats which would be fatal at hypersonic speed, the smaller craft would also serve as the escape craft. If hit by a missile, detach. The escape craft wings could be the retractable canards for escape only types or blend with the larger craft's wings at the front portion of a symbiotic delta wing for larger dual purpose types. The host craft would have fuel, jets with retractable inlet cones and dual-mode scramjets (ramjet scramjet). The smaller craft could have rocket engines only, to either enter orbit, fly a mission, or land safely upon separation with range enough to land in friendly territory. I'd also ionize the exhaust so that the fuselage becomes charged to repel air creating a nanometer thick vacuum layer around the aircraft to reduce friction.
    Now for the derogatory comments in replies;

  • @VulcanDriver1
    @VulcanDriver1 6 месяцев назад +5

    I have a 1/72 model of this aircraft.

  • @munozcampos
    @munozcampos 6 месяцев назад +2

    Still have my "Testors" XR-7 Thunderdart from the early 90's. What a great nostalgic video.

  • @Tclans
    @Tclans 6 месяцев назад +9

    Thought experiment; could the X-37 be a parasite craft to another aircraft?

  • @The_Raven_
    @The_Raven_ 6 месяцев назад +3

    Amazing to see the xB-70 Valkeriy hints and blackbird hints and tech

  • @daTribbleMaker
    @daTribbleMaker 5 месяцев назад +2

    I live in North Las Vegas and my apartment complex is literally across the street from Nellis Air Force Base. I have seen weird craft land (of course I'm one of those without the fancy 2000mega pixel camera phones) and have heard odd sounds emit from the sky in early mornings (I'm typically a night owl so bedtime is 7am or so) I can honestly attest, hand to god, that there are experimental craft (and possibly other things) coming in and out of that base. They do cellular blackouts on a regular basis (reception going sucky 1 bar for like 2-4 hrs) that they DON'T announce. And even have what they DO announce is known here in the local news called Red Flag Operations in May, June, and July. Which severely kills my home internet wifi and cell phone service. This is discussed on local news when they are planning to do one. Never the same time (just within those months) each year and always on the news like 2 days before they do them. And they run for like a week straight. It is so common an occurrence to lose wifi and see lights and odd sounds early mornings that it is normal here for us. Almost surprised when we do have good service and don't hear strange sounds.
    I say this now, people living around Nellis are so unfazed by this stuff going on an alien craft could land in the parking lot of the 7-11 across from the main entry of Nellis AFB and people would be like "wazzup" and just carry on their day. Google map Nellis you will find my apartment complex and the 7-11 if you think I am lying. We are not surprised here by much of anything.
    We are like "meh".

  • @FerrowTheFox
    @FerrowTheFox 26 дней назад +1

    When I was a kid in the early 2000s we would sometimes hear this deep pulsating rumbling at night here in the countryside of western Germany. I looked outside every time I heard it, but never saw any strobes. I was always a plane nut, even back then. And we'd get traffic from/to Frankfurt, Ramstein and Spangdahlem, so I knew my engine sounds. This was nothing like anything I've ever heard before, or ever since.
    Entirely unrelated, but another thing that happened around that time was every few weeks some clocks would suddenly display wrong times or blink 00:00, exactly like after being disconnected from power. Other appliances prone to load variations / spikes would be turned on in the morning as well. One day I was awake at night and just looked up at the stars from my roof window. Suddenly there was a flash, although there was no thunderstorm. I then heard my parents wireless phone downstairs beep (like when you put it back in the base unit and it started loading battery) When I looked back at the clock it now blinked 00:00. A few weeks after that my grandpa told me he had been awake at night and seen a flash, exactly at a day where the clocks had been reset in the morning as well.
    I still would love to know what kind of tests those were. I'd speculate about EMPs or something, but since I know what high-altitude EMPs can do to power grids I'm reluctant about that...

    • @RallyRacingVideo
      @RallyRacingVideo 26 дней назад +1

      That's indeed interesting recollection of the past events in your region. If I may ask, could you pinpoint more preceisly the year that you heard deep pulsating rumbling sounds at night in the early 2000's? I once came across a website where someone else did mention similar accounts as yours with the same timespan and details and would like to be get more preceise on it.
      EDIT: here is a direct quote from the website I aforementioned:
      "Hello, i am an american living in germany and i know of people who could have seen the aurora just a few weeks ago. I was told that they were woken up to a loud pulsating noise early in the morning. They looked outside and saw a flying object at low altitude in their words nothing like an ordinary aircraft. Several people in this small town in southwestern germany( near ramstein, bitburg, and spangdahlem afb) have reported in seeing the same thing that morning."
      Makes me wonder...

    • @FerrowTheFox
      @FerrowTheFox 26 дней назад +1

      @@RallyRacingVideo Wow! Very interesting find. I live near Simmern in the Hunsrück region. Not close enough to RMS or SPM to see aircraft landing there, but still in their approach/departure corridors. If people in Bitburg could see the aircraft at low altitude, it might have flown over our region while descending.
      In regard to your question, sadly I'm not certain. I think it might have been 2002 or 2003, but I'm really not sure.

    • @RallyRacingVideo
      @RallyRacingVideo 25 дней назад

      ​@@FerrowTheFox thanks! I heard similar accounts of people hearing same engine notes around 2002 in UK too. 1998 showed another report of same sounding near another US base located in Germany. Could it be just a pie in the sky? I don't think so, even if engine note characteristics are dictated by a weather in most conditions, then, specific pulse rates and frequency wouldn't differ as this is what engine produces itself, I believe.

  • @dmacpher
    @dmacpher 6 месяцев назад +5

    Looks like a Convair Kingfish! Neat

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  6 месяцев назад +1

      Literally related!

    • @dmacpher
      @dmacpher 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@FoundAndExplained ha there it is around 10:30! Commented too soon 😆

  • @agpaok0704
    @agpaok0704 6 месяцев назад +7

    It 's not like I care that much for airplanes, I have my personal favorite of all time the Saab J35 Draken. But I still find your videos interesting, and watching your other videos, reminds me what we learnt in computer science. All the products, must be able to perish and not be the perfect, in order to sell new models. From my understanding if all these were project of 90s, we probably can 't even imagine what projects are in process now. Hope I wrote everything right, I am Greek so not the best english speaker.

  • @Mr.Pie93
    @Mr.Pie93 4 месяца назад +2

    I know a guy out in Arizona near Bullhead City. We did some ATV tours with him and he had a desert homestead with a bunch of very nice things such as Xboxes, PlayStations, a bathroom being Nicer than the one at my house, and much more. He is also completely off grid, in his early thirties and has lots of friends who work in the government on things like this. As we were going around the trails in the black mountains he would go on to tell me that he had this one friend who told him, as well as he somewhat witnessed himself, an aircraft that went across 6 states in five seconds. He told me all about it and how he has seen these secretive aircraft with insane speeds. And this was all before the hype of the dark star and all of that. I truly do believe without being some conspiracist that the U.S. does in fact have these hypersonic aircraft.

    • @ElectronFieldPulse
      @ElectronFieldPulse 13 дней назад

      Sounds like a crazy guy who is into conspiracy theories

  • @normmarino7914
    @normmarino7914 2 месяца назад +1

    I seen those clouds over Danbury, Ct. and Carmel, NY about 3 years ago !

  • @Chrischi3TutorialLPs
    @Chrischi3TutorialLPs 6 месяцев назад +15

    It doesn't take a genius to nail the F-117. Tom Clancy got not just its design, but also its role pretty much on point when he wrote Red Storm Rising. Why? Because the existance of the plane was known about, and he understood enough about warfare to know that the plane, from what little he did know, could really only fill one role. That said, the F-19, as it is called in the story, was a multirole fighter, not a pure bomber like it is IRL (though iirc the USAF did experiment with turning it into a fighter, but any such modification never saw combat use)

    • @captaintoyota3171
      @captaintoyota3171 6 месяцев назад +2

      Except he didnt get it wouldnt be curved and smooth as he wrote it. He got the tech detail pretty close but the look? Nah he was completely off. Most ppl didnt kno angles is better for radar not curved surfaces
      Im sure we have tested crazy things but i duno whats out there

    • @user-mc5oh2pl7t
      @user-mc5oh2pl7t 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@captaintoyota3171 I heard that it is just because it is really hard to compute and optimize and manufacture smooth stealthy surface. And remember, in 1980-s there was Tacit Blue Experimental Plane and B-2 Bomber.

    • @badlaamaurukehu
      @badlaamaurukehu 6 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@captaintoyota3171Clancy was still ahead of the curve. Read that book when I was 12 and loved it as I was already a Jane's addict.

    • @Donleecartoons
      @Donleecartoons 6 месяцев назад +1

      What Clancy described in his book sounded an awful lot like the Testors Corp.'s model kit of the "F-19." Bell-shaped in plan view, and curvy throughout. The only difference was that Clancy's "Frisbee" was a two-person ship and multirole, while the Testors kit depicted a single-seater carrying a couple missiles or bombs in an internal bay.

    • @kdrapertrucker
      @kdrapertrucker 2 месяца назад

      He described it looking like the testers model F-19 which looked nothing like the F-117A.

  • @whyme8068
    @whyme8068 6 месяцев назад +8

    What a coincidence! I named my member "The Penetrator" too, although mine doesn't perform deep interdiction missions 😢

  • @wwiggans
    @wwiggans 3 месяца назад +1

    Point of order, the F-82 was retired in 1953 while the A-! was running combat missions until 1973 with the US. So piston engined aircraft were blowing stuff up with the US until 1973

  • @johnjensen2217
    @johnjensen2217 6 месяцев назад +6

    Two questions:
    1. How useful would this be if the parasite only had a 250NM range at Mach 15, as stated (@9:00). I think it must have been much higher.
    2. How would the parasite have returned to base? Would it fly back on its own or somehow mate back up with the mother ship (I doubt this).

    • @MrChugwater
      @MrChugwater 6 месяцев назад +3

      My thought would be that if it could achive altitudes of 125 miles, that's pretty much Low Earth Orbit. That's high enough to give you at least one orbit around the earth. The parasite would only need enough fuel to achieve this and then coast for the rest - or most of the flight - like the shuttle. It would be able to land at pretty much any airstrip since it was much lighter than the mothership and then be transported back to Aera 51 via C-5.

    • @nickabel8279
      @nickabel8279 5 месяцев назад

      Unless it just goes self delete at the end.

  • @blitzzkrieg1400
    @blitzzkrieg1400 6 месяцев назад +5

    Mate, I hope you will also discuss the Saab Gripen. Looking forward to it.

    • @oxcart4172
      @oxcart4172 6 месяцев назад

      I can recommend Millenium 7 for Gripen facts. He did a series on it!

  • @Lucapanfil
    @Lucapanfil 5 месяцев назад +1

    This plane is like a large ar-71 with a cooler design with an sr-72 on top with again a cooler design

  • @uncbadguy
    @uncbadguy 4 месяца назад +1

    We called it Aurora.
    It was Top Secret and yet everybody knew about the black op Aurora.
    1986, They scrapped the SR-71, around then, so it as natural to assume they had something 100 times better.

    • @thomasblankinship98
      @thomasblankinship98 4 месяца назад +1

      Yes , Aurora retired the Blackbird. Even though it's still denied by everyone in the government.

  • @edith.0301
    @edith.0301 6 месяцев назад +8

    it's predecessor was the sr69 vibrator

  • @seagie382
    @seagie382 6 месяцев назад +4

    3:53
    You misinterpret rotating detonation engines, at least I think... you show the aircraft riding pulses of explosion when in fact in these engines use one single continuous detonation rotating around the inside of a cylindrical combustion chamber
    (These engines are now in the public domain, Scott Manley has a good vid on them, they're also slated to go into newer cruise missiles)

  • @spectator7216
    @spectator7216 6 месяцев назад +2

    If this plane was built, then the SR-75 Penetrator’s XR-7 Thunderdart is the real SR-91 Aurora. Aurora actually referred to the B-2 Spirit because that was the code name for it but that didn’t mean hypersonic aircraft weren’t being tested. The SR-72 will likely be the first hypersonic aircraft to get to hypersonic speeds on its own.

  • @dorsk84
    @dorsk84 6 месяцев назад +1

    I have both the SR-71 & XR-7 models sitting in my basement right now. They need to be built.... again. (long story), but this vid just pushed them up the list to be built.

  • @creamgravy1
    @creamgravy1 6 месяцев назад +3

    Jesus, that dog song made me believe some puppy was outside my house.

  • @williehydejr1798
    @williehydejr1798 6 месяцев назад +3

    Please do more content like this

  • @Aaron-zu3xn
    @Aaron-zu3xn 5 месяцев назад +1

    mach 6-11(mach 17 theoretical) unclassified oblique detonation wave engine it uses a ramp in the detonation chamber to keep it stable to pulse it

  • @twistedsaltypretzel7727
    @twistedsaltypretzel7727 6 месяцев назад +2

    Yeah... a lightweight methane/oxygen pulsejet does not really instill confidence for reusability. Having life support onboard seems simply insane for an orbital deployment 'tool'. Also, Soviets were done by then , so it was like "why bother"

    • @captaintoyota3171
      @captaintoyota3171 6 месяцев назад +2

      Also high speed doesnt help interconnected radar systems

  • @user-dm5tn3wx2w
    @user-dm5tn3wx2w 6 месяцев назад +13

    I thought only the Soviets had crazy, mind boggling, ridiculous, top-secret projects. Well, it looks like Uncle Sam was crazy as hell!

    • @martinkasper197
      @martinkasper197 6 месяцев назад +4

      Mainly the Skunkworks and Northrop Grumman...🤓

    • @alwynwatson6119
      @alwynwatson6119 6 месяцев назад +5

      The only crazy thing is that these aren’t used to launch normal satellites on a regular basis.

    • @Pistolita221
      @Pistolita221 6 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@martinkasper197DARPA aren't slouches

    • @marsmotion
      @marsmotion 6 месяцев назад

      yes and were going bankrupt just like the soviets did and our econ is on the brink of collapse now just like soviets in 90s, roads schools and infrastructure is collapsing in america as well and were being invaded via our sothern borders by who knows who....and our govt has turned fascist making states now consider succeeding from the union....and were controlled by an anti human int nat banking cabal who doesnt care about americans at all even looks at us as the enemy. if this is what winning is like id hate to see losing

    • @radiofreealbemuth8540
      @radiofreealbemuth8540 6 месяцев назад

      @@Pistolita221I hope DARPA knows how to keep secrets from Chinese thieves.

  • @Istandby666
    @Istandby666 6 месяцев назад +3

    From 1984 to 1992, I grew up around Edwards Air Force Base. Because my biological father worked at Edwards and Groom Lake aka Area 51.
    He worked on a program that the ground crew nicknamed the aircraft Grease Lightning, due to its speed. This aircraft was faster than the SR-71.
    This aircraft was being tested back in the late 80's to the 90's.
    One night out in California City. The whole family went outside to watch a meteor shower.
    When we looked up. We saw something very bright and very high streaking across the night sky. It went from the south to the north in about a minute. We didn't hear anything. I went inside and grabbed a camera to take pictures.
    I gave the film roll to my biological father to have processed.
    I was later told nothing was on the film and I never saw the negatives.
    What happened to the film? I don't know.
    But that night in the Mojave desert, I saw something so fast, it glowed bright white.
    After that night, my biological father told me about a program at Groom Lake they nicknamed Grease Lightning.

    • @RallyRacingVideo
      @RallyRacingVideo 6 месяцев назад

      Replied to you many times already. Do you know whether the Grease Lightning was pure recon bird or just a technology demonstrator for unknown(publicly) purpose?

    • @Istandby666
      @Istandby666 6 месяцев назад

      @@RallyRacingVideo
      Most likely a technology demonstrator.

    • @RallyRacingVideo
      @RallyRacingVideo 6 месяцев назад

      @@Istandby666 the claim the Grease Lightning was flying in the late 80s and early 90s means it definitely wasnt flying in the mid 90's forwards? Is it just deduction or a claim from some repudable source?

  • @jamesm3123
    @jamesm3123 6 месяцев назад +1

    They tried a similar thing with the sr71. The small plane hit the tail on the blackbird and caused it to disintegrate at mack 3. Only the pilot survived.

  • @derpyallan1435
    @derpyallan1435 6 месяцев назад

    For the longest time i thought the SR 71 was the most badass, beautiful looking plane. I didn't think it could look any better until you showed us THIS MAGNIFICENT BEAST! :D

  • @catscotish
    @catscotish 6 месяцев назад +3

    I'd like to know how u make your smoke /jet exhaust effect and afterburner affect (if u use blender)

  • @grahamnash9794
    @grahamnash9794 6 месяцев назад +5

    Hi Nick. I heard something a few days ago that got me wondering. Something nick named the "Twinfire". Would you and your crew consider looking into this, and bringing us a video on the subject?

  • @saintpaulsnail
    @saintpaulsnail 6 месяцев назад +1

    To my knowledge, the D-21 drone was hazardous to launch from the M-21. The drone was converted to be dropped from B52's instead.

  • @shaider1982
    @shaider1982 6 месяцев назад +1

    I remember this featured in the Groom Lake special issue from Popular Science (if I remember correctly) from the early to mid 1990's.

  • @jasonjacoby
    @jasonjacoby 6 месяцев назад +5

    The animation of the thing taking off is killing me. The thought of using a PWD engine on takeoff is hilarious. 😂

  • @AdhvaithSane
    @AdhvaithSane 6 месяцев назад +5

    They called it “Penetrator” 💀

  • @clarencehopkins7832
    @clarencehopkins7832 5 месяцев назад +1

    Excellent stuff bro

  • @brucecampbell6133
    @brucecampbell6133 4 месяца назад

    I heard an aircraft, with the unique sounding pulse wave detonation engine(s) on two separate occasions between 8 and 15 years ago flying high over the Central Valley / Livermore Valley . I got the impression that the plane was negotiating a wide turn left toward the Pacific away from a flight path over the San Joachim valley. The sound was very deep and eerie sounding; I could tell the aircraft was flying very high. I listened to it for a while; nothing like when a jet flies overhead at 30 to 50 thousand feet.

  • @dextermorgan1
    @dextermorgan1 6 месяцев назад +6

    Combine the mother ship and the "parasite" ship together, and that's what we have today. The mother ship isn't needed anymore. They using combined cycle engines, like Darkstar in Top Gun. Seriously. Lockheed has been working on the SR 72 for a decade now. I'd bet it's already flying.

  • @henryfleischer404
    @henryfleischer404 6 месяцев назад +5

    I wouldn't be surprised if Lockheed made design drawings for something like this, but I would be stunned if it got past the prototype stage. It just does not make enough sense. Stealth technology in the 80's was severely lacking, so it would either show up clearly on RADAR, or be subsonic, or use some kind of exotic fuel (see: Uranium). That already makes it nearly useless, especially after the early 90's.
    And then there's the heat problem. I have no clue how to cool something moving that fast.
    Also, I see you have no citations. I don't think I could even call this edutainment if you give no sources and are not a subject matter expert.

    • @mpeugeot
      @mpeugeot 6 месяцев назад +1

      You do realize that the B-2 was largely designed in the 1980's and was doing operational test and evaluation in the early/mid 90's, right? The YF-22 and YF-23 were also flown in the early 1990's.

    • @henryfleischer404
      @henryfleischer404 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@mpeugeot The B-2 was subsonic, and even the F-35's radar-absorbing coating wears out quickly over mach 1. A hypersonic scout plane that causes an international incident every time it's used is not very useful, and would be very easy to detect. The technology behind a hypersonic stealth plane would make the b-21 raider, and China's entire naval strategy obsolete.

    • @mpeugeot
      @mpeugeot 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@henryfleischer404 Well the YF-23/YF-22 were most certainly supersonic (Mach 2+) and relatively stealthy. Yes, stealth coatings at the time were relatively fragile. As far as hypersonic stealth, that would have been a completely different story (and I don't think that we had reliable hypersonic coatings at the time), however, as altitude increases wear decreases on the coatings.
      Speaking of international incidents, how much did we hear the soviets complain about the U-2 prior to shooting one down? It's really difficult to complain unless you can prove it exists. It was the same story for a lot of our reconnaissance aircraft, few complaints until they could prove it.
      Detecting it is one thing, proving it is a US aircraft is entirely a different thing all together (especially at over 100k altitude and rolling at well above Mach 3).

    • @nickabel8279
      @nickabel8279 5 месяцев назад

      Agreed but as for coming something that fast. What does the space shuttle reach on return?

    • @henryfleischer404
      @henryfleischer404 5 месяцев назад

      @@nickabel8279 The space shuttle reaches up to mach 14, but not for very long.

  • @whogivesacrap84
    @whogivesacrap84 6 месяцев назад

    I remember building this model, grew up in palmdale, so this stuff fascinated me

  • @GauntletKI
    @GauntletKI 6 месяцев назад +1

    That looks like the jet that competed against the sr-71, as they said the kingfish.

  • @SaintFluffySnow
    @SaintFluffySnow 6 месяцев назад +2

    unlikely.
    old fast Mach 3.2+ SR-71 was impractical, took too long to prepare for mission
    today, any fast aircraft is vulnerable to missiles which are much faster and maneuverable, whilst special durable build materials, like titanium metal alloys, are not readily gotten
    attempts at building an improved high-supersonic aircraft with faster hypersonic capabilities is limited by materials suppliers
    meanwhile,
    slower U-2 was vulnerable to high-altitude missiles; preparation time was always slow

    • @WolfeSaber9933
      @WolfeSaber9933 6 месяцев назад +1

      The thing is, we don't actually know the real velocity of the SR-71. They say mach 3.35, but some people doing some math see it much higher.
      Also, the SR-71 was fired at, but never shot down.

    • @SaintFluffySnow
      @SaintFluffySnow 6 месяцев назад

      USA has no Mach 3+ fighterjets in the 21st Century
      (none of USA's Mach 3+ spyplanes flew into the 21st Century)
      USA's long-range Mach 3 Strategic Bomber XB-70A was cancelled once they realized modern SAMs could destroy them even at high altitudes going Mach 3
      meanwhile, Russia (formerly USSR), still has operational MiG-31 (better armed than MiG-25) are now armed with devastating hypersonic speed missiles (not just high-supersonic speed missiles)
      ditto:
      Sukhoi (Su-27/30/33/35) Flanker variants

      SR-71 Max Speed
      1 mile per 1.6 seconds
      1,006.111 meters per second
      3622 kph
      2251 mph
      Mach 3.41
      @ 11,010 to 25,114 m altitude
      @ 36,123 to 82,396 ft altitude
      Mach 3.5 👈(last flight)
      👆
      Today:
      Mach 7.0+ modern hypersonic Air-to-Air missiles can easily destroy any Mach 3.5 aircraft
      Mach 10.0+ modern hypersonic Air-to-Air missiles can easily destroy any Mach 5.0 aircraft
      Mach 30.0+ modern hypersonic Air-to-Air missiles can easily destroy any Mach 15 aircraft
      etc
      USA doesn't even have a working hypersonic Mach 30 Wind-Tunnel to understand how hypersonic aircraft interact with launching another aircraft or missiles at hypersonic speeds!
      China does: they INCLUDE studying hypersonic speed interactions between hypersonic hybrid air-spacecraft that launch even faster hypersonic missiles

    • @WolfeSaber9933
      @WolfeSaber9933 6 месяцев назад

      @@SaintFluffySnow How do you know China has such a wind tunnel and the US doesn't? Not to mention that China is a bunch of thieves.

    • @SaintFluffySnow
      @SaintFluffySnow 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@WolfeSaber9933 basically, you just don't read industry/military watch sourced; you use only layperson sources
      China aren't thieves, they just counter whatever potential threats USA might contemplate; which is why USA has to cancel whatever they're doing: USA creates offensive weapons
      so, logically, China creates defensive weapons that cancel out such offensive threats
      China's Hypersonic Speed wind tunnels are already a public matter (informed netizens are aware of it)
      USA had to clandestinely source SR-71's Titanium Metal from USSR via USA's fake companies (titanium for pizzeria ovens)
      whoever made the lame cgi video graphics for hypersonic speed Mach 15 aircraft has NO CLUE what Mach Angle is! (look it up!)
      the wing geometry is all wrong! (both look like high supersonic aircraft, nowhere near hypersonic)
      and NO clue how old SR-71 (variable inlet) engines work!
      SR-71 had tremendous restrictions, with slow tedious 24-48 hour turnaround times (impossible to "scramble" on demand)
      US Military was unnerved recently when it monitored China's Hypersonic (reusable hybrid glide spacecraft) do it's round-trip 40,000 km FLIGHT in 105 minutes (1h45m) around the Earth (40,000/1.75 = 22,857 kph or 14203 mph) avg
      or
      6.349 km/s (3.945 miles/s)
      or
      Mach 23.581 (extreme high altitudes)
      Mach 21+ (medium high altitudes)
      Mach 18.653 (low altitudes)
      meanwhile, USA's hypersonic test missiles can barely crack Mach 5.01 just once (if it even can get its engines working)
      never mind any "aircraft" going hypersonic speeds
      too many in USA have no idea how racist they are when involving advanced technology contributions Chinese have made to USA, but rejected because they were Chinese!
      USA's earliest hypersonic engine concepts were from Chinese man in USA, but rejected because of his Chinese ancestry (USA's anti-China racism has nothing to do with "communism")
      (so, the USA's racist "go back to China" attitude only means, the Chinese got ahead of USA using Chinese own ideas rejected by racists of USA)
      USA is so racist, you won't even read about how another Chinese woman brilliantly showed NASA how to send spaceprobes to orbit Mercury, or other planets
      (you wouldn't know who, because USA suppresses it in the public eye)
      you won't find this information on Wikipedia (meant for layman) in 2023!
      but you will find it on NASA websites and Engineering websites

    • @merafirewing6591
      @merafirewing6591 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@SaintFluffySnow bot.

  • @sop1918
    @sop1918 6 месяцев назад +3

    14:52 you said 1995 at this point, not sure if that was a mistake, but if it’s correct the sr75 now is less needed due to the Soviet union’s collapse, except for the USSR there weren’t many countries that have good enough defence for sr71

    • @WolfeSaber9933
      @WolfeSaber9933 6 месяцев назад

      China

    • @sop1918
      @sop1918 6 месяцев назад

      @@WolfeSaber9933 fair enough but they’re not the best

    • @WolfeSaber9933
      @WolfeSaber9933 6 месяцев назад

      @@sop1918 North Korea, the Middle East, Russia.

    • @sop1918
      @sop1918 6 месяцев назад

      @@WolfeSaber9933 for the Middle East just use SR71 it’ll work and North Korea I mean idk about their AA abilities

    • @WolfeSaber9933
      @WolfeSaber9933 6 месяцев назад

      @@sop1918 The SR-71 did fly over. One time, it was locked on, but the Blackbird was too fast for the missile to catch it. The missile ran out of fuel.

  • @jbreefer148
    @jbreefer148 6 месяцев назад

    I used to have a model of this Aircraft the SR-75 penetrator. Truly amazing.

  • @boltmaX
    @boltmaX 6 месяцев назад +2

    looks like something from kerbal space program

  • @Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P
    @Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P 6 месяцев назад +3

    There WAS a model of this bigger a-c and smaller "parasite" a-c. It is from the model company 'Italeri' as model number 034!!

  • @ImRuined666
    @ImRuined666 6 месяцев назад +2

    I actually saw a chain of dough-nut shaped clouds, exactly like those at about 20:50, in the middle of COVID lockdown across the skies in Melbourne, Australia whilst taking my partner's mother for her cancer treatment one day... Didn't think much of it at the time, other than they looked unusual, but yeah, they looked exactly like the photo shown here...

  • @clausvonstauffenberg9943
    @clausvonstauffenberg9943 Месяц назад

    Didn’t see donuts on a rope but me and my buddy saw the little jet fly right in front of us in between to ridges, we were looking at hogs on the other ridge when we seen it skirting up the valley, it was flying level making no sound then it flipped on its side with what would be the cockpit facing us then flipped back level and then either took off so fast you couldn’t see it leave or it had some sort of cloaking device because it completely disappeared,all the while it made not a sound. It was approximately a 250 to 300 yards away flying straight across in front of us. This was in Northern California (Humboldt County) in between petrolia and honeydew, fairly remote area.

  • @vinrusso821
    @vinrusso821 5 месяцев назад

    YES!! I saw those exact contrails or plumes in Utah. I was living just outside of Salt Lake City and have always wondered about those.

  • @TheAutism_Man
    @TheAutism_Man 6 месяцев назад

    my first vid that ive been less than 20 minutes late for lol. Nice vid, really awesome aircraft!

  • @FieroGT3400
    @FieroGT3400 Месяц назад

    man, that must be one hell of a strong cone! @ 22:33 - 22.36. :) but awesome vid and plane, i haven't heard about this one yet....

  • @col.g.7698
    @col.g.7698 2 месяца назад

    As a former field grade officer, who worked in an area close to where you were talking about all I will say is this. Well, I was in processing my paperwork had written in hand meeting with commanding general of base. When I went to the assigned nondescript Bill, at the assigned time, I found myself with just two other officers. The general appeared promptly. He knew each other by name, and he knew our educational background. He informed us as we were the most highly educated officers on the base and highly trained observers he was putting into each of our personnel jackets in order from a general officer not to discuss anything we saw, which we thought, was highly unusual or abnormal to us in the air, unusual, sounds or anything extremely bizarre, which we observed on the ground..As I have no desire to spend the rest of my life in Fort Leavenworth this is all I will share. I will leave by saying this, the meeting with the general was not , a waste - there was most definitely a purpose behind this meeting! I really don’t care what anybody thinks about me! I know what I observed with my senses.

  • @WisKy64VT
    @WisKy64VT 6 месяцев назад +2

    The only issue I see is that the M-21 program had a fatal flaw of the D-21 crashing back into the mothership destroying it. And then they literally hid the other M-21 in the middle of the desert for years so no one else would die.

    • @atomicskull6405
      @atomicskull6405 4 месяца назад

      When your first mission completely overflies China and crashes inside Russia where it gets recovered and reverse engineered you know the program is cursed. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Voron

  • @user-rx561
    @user-rx561 22 дня назад

    Gravity wave,threocally still unknown, except for the anomaly above the triangle on skinwalker ranch = truly a feat of engineering of epic design

  • @corneljackson2991
    @corneljackson2991 3 месяца назад

    I was lucky enuf to see the 71 go up off the west coast north of San Diego! A couple months ago. It actually deployed the drone as shown. Wish I could have witnessed the entire flight. It was at night as well but that made it better…

  • @Masters_Yukesh
    @Masters_Yukesh 6 месяцев назад

    I always loved you're channel and waiting for new videos for crazy animation

  • @oofercavan
    @oofercavan Месяц назад +1

    I can still see it clearly, I was on a trip to yoesemite and I stepped outside on the balcony and looked up at the stars, I remeber clearly seeing rings with a small plane flying up above and I never found out until I watched your video, what it might be.

  • @nerfthecows
    @nerfthecows 6 месяцев назад +1

    Good call on just going with “Scotland” on that one…

  • @lightman489
    @lightman489 6 месяцев назад +2

    I lived in the antelope Valley from the 70s until the 2000s then boron next to Edward's air force base that's where i seen alot of big aircraft taking off quick out of Edward's afb..every night almost...there's no doubt Lockheed in Palmdale has the facilities to build and conceal such aircraft..watching the sr71 do touch and goes in the 80s was cool but there's always been something more for years

    • @mpeugeot
      @mpeugeot 6 месяцев назад

      Anything truly classified there was done at the North Base part of Edwards AFB nearest to Boron

  • @proteusnz99
    @proteusnz99 6 месяцев назад

    I’ve got two copies of this as an Italieri/Testors 1/72 scale kit from the mid 80s. Given the disaster arising from trying to launch the D-21 from the M-12 (control loss trying to go through the mothership shock cone, which would probably flameout the parasite ramjet engine), the D-21 was switched to airdrop from a B-52H with a huge rocket booster. Still no a howling success. Satellites or low observable drones make more sense for reconnaissance, perhaps a droned U-2. Unable to be shot down? If we can build anti-ballistic missiles, then anything flying in the atmosphere can be killed.

  • @Fish_witha_gun
    @Fish_witha_gun 5 месяцев назад +1

    I can't wait for the sr 72, and Im excited to see how the b21 will work. I wonder if it'll do a great job

  • @AlanStock-wt5tm
    @AlanStock-wt5tm 6 месяцев назад

    Tucson AZ, summer, early 1990s. In the house on a weekday morning, I hear the loudest roar of an aircraft I've ever heard. I run outside with the binoculars, focus up at a white line in the sky...donuts on a rope. Had no idea what it was until a few years later when I started searching the internets.

  • @marwat8741
    @marwat8741 6 месяцев назад +2

    Governments always tell us everything, they dont keep secrets😅

  • @carltonleboss
    @carltonleboss 6 месяцев назад +2

    You're leaking more government secrets than your average War Thunder player

  • @sto1asgoetia600
    @sto1asgoetia600 Месяц назад

    The pulsing jets makes the jet’s flying so violent

  • @user-zx5fo5xx3o
    @user-zx5fo5xx3o 25 дней назад

    i see that plane all the time, trails way high in the sky crossing trails sometimes, it goes across the sky fast !