Brit Reacts to US Air Force Declared SR-72 DARKSTAR Is REAL!

Brit Reacts to US Air Force Declared SR-72 DARKSTAR Is REAL!
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[@emichels]

My suggested nickname: The Dark Force

[@LA_HA]

Makes sense with R2D2 on there. I second that motion

[@samboggs3499]

😅, exactly 💯.... The YPG is a major military installation, near were I grew up. People camping in the area declared the place was full of UFO....The logic was, their was no way any Helicopter had virtually no heat signature, no dust cloud beneath, silent and finally, the speed and maneuverability was beyond any Helicopter. This was in the 70's. Guess we're the Apache Helicopter?.

[@Ryan-li8qc]

The Skywalker

[@LA_HA]

@@Ryan-li8qc Ooooh. I think I like that one, too. A lot

[@sethdunlap9868]

I was thinking, "F**K You, Commies-1776"

[@58rsm]

As an ex- Air Force person I can confirm that once the public finds out about new technology it is already obsolete.

[@dead-claudia]

or at least specifics about said tech, that is. on rare occasion the military deliberately admits newer capabilities to scare enemies (like autonomous control ability for the b-52), and there are some cases where tech isn't obsolete, but just well-established with little to improve (like our ground communications at a high level).

[@snakebite6x6x6]

One of my best friends was in the Air Force and he said pretty much the same thing. "Whatever they show the public....you can be sure that they have far more advanced tech that they haven't told you about"

[@robertmurray6340]

An ex airforce person? Airforce pilot, commander, cook? You saying person makes me think your lying about being in the airforce. Who says that? If I'm a marine. I would say I'm a marine person. I'd say Sargent or private and so on. Or an army guy wouldnt say he's an army person. Lol

[@58rsm]

@@robertmurray6340 12 years as avionics technician. F-4D, E-4B, EC/KC/RC-135. "Person" would be a correct description as I am a single human being, "people" would designate more than one person. "Individual" could also have been used but it too designates a single "person" therefore the verbage is correct.

[@nedkelly9688]

What exagerated BS you have no hypersonics yet, barely just have hypersonic missiles. Australia helped you in hypersonics and Australia has world fastest scramjet at mach 12 and China brag of world fastest hypersonic wind tunnel is Australian Ray Stalker free piston tunnels stolen design. Ray Stalker was 1st to get essense of flight from scramjets. Australian company owner with world fastest scramjet worked at NASA designing scramjets. This company just won the USA DUI HYCAT contract to build USA hypersonic vehicles over 63 other companies This Australian drone will fly in under 300 days and before bla bla never worked, earlier version of the scramjet worked in HIFIRE Australia part. HACAM and HAWC scramjet missiles were developed through HIFIRE and SCIFIRE joint USA,AUS tests. SR72 is closest you have or Hermeus also have Dark Horse. Before internet was huge yes secrets were easier to keep from us, not now. SR72 has been known about for years now. New Stealth bomber we knew years before made. F35 .. only secrets are their full capabilities is all..

[@Rod-Wheeler]

Anything we know about is probably 20 to 30-year-old technology.

[@tomfox9083]

Easily that’s what my dad has always told me

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

It depends. In general, the US military prefers to keep everything classified as long as possible, or at least until it's no longer militarily relevant; but sometimes through the course of events the public finds out so much information about a piece of technology, that there's no longer any point trying to conceal it. Every time there's a war, stuff gets used, and gets seen, and ends up being declassified. Occasionally, the public learns about something in other ways, and its existence is declassified even *before* it is used in war. An instructive example of the latter case is the F-117, which enthusiasts managed to photograph in sufficient detail that the existence of the funny-looking plane could no longer be denied. Photos were on the cover of popular magazines, so there was no point denying that it was a real aircraft. In order to preserve as much secrecy as possible, they chose to acknowledge its existence but withhold information about its operational role, allowing (or possibly encouraging) the public to see it as a stealth _fighter_ rather than as the strike aircraft it actually was. This was further cemented in the public mind when the B-2 Spirit became known, much more accurately, as the "stealth bomber". The real purpose of the F-117 did not become widely known until somewhat later. This "partial disclosure" is an ongoing theme. To this day we still don't know exactly how deep the Los Angeles and Ohio class nuclear submarines can safely operate, even though both classes are now in the process of being replaced. We know a lot of other stuff about them, but the max operational depth was relatively easy to conceal because, simply, nobody outside the US military has managed to follow them and see how far down they go. So that specific detail is still classified.

[@PiousSlayer]

@@jonadabtheunsightly The military sometimes also reveals things as a way of 'threatening' potential hostiles. An example of this is how they revealed that the B-21 Raider can be flown completely autonomously in one of the press briefings when it was being revealed. They are also talking about the A.I piloted F-16 that's currently in testing, which is a pretty wild thing to even think about. They want NGAD to essentially have A.I drones supporting the main craft, if I recall correctly, which is wild. I can imagine drone air craft carriers becoming a reality with how the technologies are progressing. They figured out how to palletize cruise missiles (Rapid Dragon), so I doubt there's much difference between that and a drone launching system in a similar design.

[@SMD2x]

Minimum

[@damocles8417]

Wait until you see the Starship Enterprise.

[@tomfox9083]

My dads retired Air Force and he says anything the government shows you is like 50 years old to them

[@TahiriVeila13ABY]

Utter nonsense. The operational stuff we have is the stuff we have... It's funny how when we get into a war, there's no big reveal of some crazy new technology. Even stealth was something people new was coming when it first showed up...

[@jpjh8844]

As a Retired USAF Aircraft Mechanic I can confirm this as fact!

[@vtown5630]

💯

[@bobbyquinting3918]

And already replaced! But secrets are supposed to be secret!

[@nathanielwilbanks3734]

Its crazy to think the SR-71 was designed before computers. Slide rulers and paper..

[@bradreeder7635]

Keep in mind, that if they release the top speed as mach 6, it's probably closer to 7, or even 8.

[@aaronburdon221]

The only problem is that this would probably break the pilots bones due to the G forces required to achieve and keep at those speeds.

[@stinkystu1]

@@aaronburdon221 Not with the new thingamabopper they made to counteract that, which they haven't told us about.

[@Steve-yr5vi]

@@aaronburdon221 that's not true G forces are a result of acceleration, which can be controlled, you understand the space shuttle traveled at Mach 23?

[@aaronburdon221]

@@Steve-yr5vi That is true, but the atmospheric pressure is what makes it dangerous. Space shuttles can travel at that speed (17,000 mph roughly), but it's also not fighting the atmosphere when it's orbiting the earth. Different atmospheric pressures effect the "mach scale" differently. The most g forces a human can endure is about 9-9.5 and those are trained fighter pilots and that's only for a couple seconds. The space shuttle at launch is about 1.7-3.0 g's during launch (depending on what stage it's in).

[@Anubis78250]

@@aaronburdon221 That's not how the force works. Speed has zero relation to g-force. It's entirely based on rate of acceleration in any given direction. Think of an elevator. When you're standing in it and not moving you are experiencing zero additional g-force. When the elevator starts accelerating upward, you experience increased g-force. Once the elevator stops accelerating and is traveling up at a constant rate, you experience zero additional g-force.

[@user-nr5ux7gr2g]

What I find impressive about the SR-71 is how they acquired the titanium to build them by having a lot of shell companies purchase it from the Soviet Union

[@DemoDick1]

The most impressive thing IMO is they designed and built the damn thing in Burbank, and still kept it quiet. Whenever someone says “That’s too big a secret, they couldn’t keep it. Someone would have talked,” just remember we bought the materials from the USSR, built a ridiculous spy plane out of it, and flew missions for decades before the public “knew”. When they took it to Groom for test flights they broke it up into sections, disguised the sections as a manufactured home, and hauled it on trucks in broad daylight. Wild.

[@DemoDick1]

The most impressive thing IMO is they designed and built the damn thing in Burbank, and still kept it quiet. Whenever someone says “That’s too big a secret, they couldn’t keep it. Someone would have talked,” just remember we bought the materials from the USSR, built a ridiculous spy plane out of it, and flew missions for decades before the public “knew”. When they took it to Groom for test flights they broke it up into sections, disguised the sections as a manufactured home, and hauled it on trucks in broad daylight. Wild.

[@stevensrhester8594]

You know they had to be pissed about that!😆

[@charlieeckert4321]

Yes, a black project essentially means stealthy or top secret.

[@user-nr5ux7gr2g]

Also called Skunk works projects

[@shalakabooyaka1480]

@@user-nr5ux7gr2g skunkworks is an r&d department at lockheed martin specifically.

[@lp8436]

​@@user-nr5ux7gr2g Skunk Works is specific to Lockheed-Martin, while Phantom Works is specific to Boeing. Either way, they are highly classified programs.

[@dead-claudia]

@@user-nr5ux7gr2glockheed martin isn't the only contractor working on those works btw

[@ajaxslamgoody9736]

It has no known budget paid by or approved by Congress.

[@SalyLuz-hc6he]

Since the Blackbird is my favourite plane, I still would like this SR-72 to be called the “Son Of Blackbird” aka SOB. 😉 i’m sure there’s a much better name. Maybe there is some type of black bird like a falcon that flies very fast? But I don’t think they are taking suggestions from civilians! And you are correct, we will find out about it long afterwards. They will be careful where it lands in daylight, so that it cannot be observed. For example, there are some high places where you can observe the runways at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. But if it landed at night, that’s a completely different situation.

[@beesnort3163]

Ok, that is a bad ass name!

[@suburbanbanshee]

Wright-Patt is in the middle of a settled area, and always has been. There's not a darned thing in the air that somebody doesn't observe, and most people in the area are interested in aviation, to some extent. A base in the middle of the desert is in a different position.

[@jeffkablock3229]

LOL we have been flying it for 2 years now !

[@417jumps3]

The yearly defense budget (roughly $900 billion currently) contains “black” funds. Those funds are set aside for special operations forces (gear, training, missions, etc). Black budget $ is set aside for the military and the CIA. “Black” projects are so classified that even law makers don’t know what that money is used for. I wouldn’t be surprised the President doesn’t know about many of the projects the “black” budget pays for.

[@toddjohnson5692]

Yup, unlike some other commentors, you are correct. A 'black' project simply is one that can't be talked about at all to anyone 'outside' the project. It isn't 'higher' than top secret and many working on it would just have secret clearance, maybe with an additional qualifier (Like secret/NATO). It all depended on what you worked on and would be allowed to know. But, they have to sign that they won't tell anyone what they do for work other than say 'I work at Lockheed'. Or 'I work at ULA'. Rather severe consequences will be applied if you break that rule and will vary depending on if you are a civilian or military employee. At a minimum 'job limiting' because you will lose all clearance you have and never get it back. We used to tease folks on 'black' projects when going to a bar or dinner. Someone would ask what everyone was working on :) If on a 'black' project you could just say 'I work at Boeing'. We knew from back channels the gist of what they were doing, but they'd never say it.

[@bluflaam777]

One of the ways to get around 'black' funding was to charge $200 for a hammer. $1000 for a toilet -etc basically laundering funds. LOL The difference is that it was legal and necessary to try to keep everything as secret as possible. Of course accounting watch dogs would and can find out about these avenues. but for the most part no one does. Even when 'we' know the gov does so. There are other ways to fund black projects as well. Most of the funding runs thru' those channels and are not available to the public.

[@417jumps3]

@@bluflaam777 hey let’s not forget the $10k per roll of very special 3-ply toilet paper!!!

[@Tylermaddox1911]

Black isn't even tracked. The budget is well over 900B.

[@Tylermaddox1911]

​@@toddjohnson5692 exactly, good.

[@HankTester]

The roof lifting off from the takeoff @7:02 is just a clip from the new top gun movie....

[@Phoenix12157]

mach 20 is around 15,000 mph....btw lol

[@Ds-xi2sq]

15,334 mph thats 18 times faster than a airliner

[@aaronmerijanian4720]

this was quietly confirmed by lockheed a few months back, will likely be 15 years before we see it for real due to how classified it is

[@msp9810]

If it is being confirmed now, it has already been developed and in use, & now ready to be retired.

[@dead-claudia]

@@msp9810the program is ahead of schedule after all, so it's possible. also, lockheed martin made it pretty clear most the leg work was already done and they were just waiting on a customer to bite so they could finalize the design and move on to production - rumors started in 2007 and the project first acknowledged in 2013. edit: the air force also publicly stated around that time that they're in the final testing stages before actually acquiring the aircraft.

[@LarryHatch]

It took them almost 20 years since these "long black triangles" have been seen to admit it! This is old technology.

[@susantamas5400]

In the 1970s, my husband worked on the camera gyroscope for the Blackbird that kept the cameras level as it bounced around in turbulence. He was stationed in the Tonken Bay on the aircraft carrier for consultation and repairs on the Blackbird. Only five years ago, these gyroscope photos and blueprints were released by the military. That's almost 50 years of top secret material being stored for possible updates. We probably have more plane prototypes that were not developed in the back of hangers somewhere. The US is certainly a military industrial complex.

[@marksmess136]

At Mach 6.5 (approx.4940 mph}, it would take less than 45 minutes from New York to London (3460 miles). No inflight service for short trips.

[@1Adam20]

@4:36 I was born, and grew up not far from a Lockheed Martin location in Central New York. I grew up in a suburb of Syracuse, which was 2-3 miles from the location in Liverpool, NY. Now, I live in Space city, Texas (aka Houston).

[@wittsullivan8130]

In the Al Cap comic strip, the Skonkworks was where one of the main characters kept his stills to make illegal moonshine whisky, codenamed "Skonk Juice". It smelled, but it was also kept very secret. Since the Advanced Development Projects division of Lockheed was near a plastics factory and it was kept very secret, the employees called it the Skonkworks. "Skonk" is how a lot of Appalachians pronounced "skunk" back in the day. According to Rich's autobiography about his time at the Skunkworks, whenever anyone answered the phone, "Skonkworks", after their phone conversation ended, the head of the division, Kelly Johnson, would yell from his office, "You're fired! Clear out your desk and go home." The various guys would grab a box, clean out their desk and go home for the afternoon and then show up on time the next morning like nothing had happened and Kelly Johnson acted like nothing had happened. "You're fired, clear out your desk" became a running joke. Some guilty parties even cut Johnson off during his shout, saying, "Your fired, Clear out your desk" and pulled a box out that was already packed, because they knew they would be "fired" for something that day. :) Even Johnson's number two guy, Ben Rich, got "fired" a few times. :) Kelly Johnson was a freaking genius, involved in designing the P-38 Lightning fighter plane during WW2, the P-80 shooting star, one of the first jet fighters, the F-100 Starfighter, the first fighter to go mach 1, the SR-71, and did a lot of work that led up to the F-117 stealth fighter and B-2 stealth bomber before he had a series of massive strokes. One of the last things he saw when he was alive was a B-2 bomber take off in person, in a wheelchair, "rescued" from his nursing home by Ben Rich. He had formulae memorized so well, that he could do complex calculations in his head while smoking his pipe that were checked with slide rules and calculators, correct within 4 digits. Math is math whether it's on paper or in a super computer. :)

[@LA_HA]

Thank you for the awesome information. I really and truly appreciate your sharing this

[@wvt5825]

When the United States Government publicly acknowledges the SR-72, or any other military equipment, there is something more advanced to keep classified.

[@MAJORBLOODRAYNE]

I think Darkstar is fitting for it. I fell in love with the Blackbird when I was little and to see a new version being made now is re-kindling that love. + if you look at it from front to back and top-down it looks like a starburst.

[@number9434]

Looks like something the Empire would fly. I guess that's why it was nicknamed Darkstar.

[@sullyway51]

There was 2 prototypes of the YF-12, predecessor of the SR-71, were developed as interceptors carrying 2 long range missiles internally.

[@sethdunlap9868]

People sometimes overlook that the SR-71 was designed by men with slide rulers, protractors, and brilliance. NO computer assistance. I read that the designs for the SR-71 were fed into a supercomputer some fifty years after it's design and the computer could find no improvement nor flaw.

[@KennyP62]

Mach 1 is the speed of sound, or 761mph / 1224 kmh at sea level. So, Mach 6 is six times the speed of sound at sea level with some variables. There is talks out there about a possible Air Force one that will be able to travel at Mach 5 to Mach 5.5.

[@Probablekozz]

nick name should be Alduin the World-Eater (from the black dragon in Skyrim)

[@Robert41265]

I became more and more wary of this video as the narrator spewed out details about a classified aircraft as if they were public domain, so I checked the source, 'Hyperspeed'. This comes directly from their channel description: 'Our goal is to craft the most entertaining and informative content, whether it's rooted in facts, inspired by fiction, or sparked by the latest rumors.' There is a Wikipedia article about the SR-72. It mentions possible testing of a prototype in 2025 and the potential for production as early as 2030. There was no mention of plans to use laser weapon technology but instead mentioned hypersonic missiles. One issue I have about using lasers is that they have to stay on a precise point for a few seconds to be effective. They also require a lot more energy compared to launching a missile.

[@passportpapi713]

Firing a laser is much cheaper than missiles and with the volts put out by these high energy lasers it doesn’t need that much time it touches and burns almost like a torch. If you ever heard about the Panama deception the USA used laser weapons in the 1980s testing them on panamas citizens it was a messed up situation, if anyone from Panama is here please confirm this, bc those lasers didn’t need to hold very long.

[@SalyLuz-hc6he]

Yes, SR-71 is the Blackbird! That’s my favorite plane, & it’s so lovely to see at the (local) USAF National Museum! So many beautiful things in there- if you’re ever in Ohio, do go visit there! This is where the first successful planes on earth were made by the Wright Brothers, & there are many great Aerospace History sites in the area. Yes, a black project is secret, non-public, for operational security (opsec) reasons.

[@iKvetch558]

The Blackbird at the USAF Museum is a terrific display...but if you ever get a chance to go there, you should definitely go see the Strategic Air Command Museum near Omaha, Nebraska...they have the most uniquely and spectacularly displayed SR-71 that I have ever seen.

[@SalyLuz-hc6he]

@@iKvetch558 Thank you, I’ll put that on my list for next time I’m in Nebraska!

[@iKvetch558]

@@SalyLuz-hc6he If it helps, the SAC Museum is on the way from Dayton to the North Entrance of the Grand Canyon. I made that drive back in 2012, and it was the road trip of a lifetime.

[@AngelaC.-iz4ts]

My husband was USAF Security Forces and guarded the Blackbird while stationed at Kadena AFB in Okinawa. Once he was guarding two in a hanger while they were going through a hurricane. The pilots came in to check on their planes and sled him if he’d like to sit in one. He said it looked like a spaceship out of a movie. Hands down the loudest and most beautiful bird we’ve had in our arsenal as of yet. I grew up in the AF and miss my jets terribly.

[@1Adam20]

@5:51 Mach Speed changes depending on how high you're flying, so at 85,000 ft Mach 3.2 would be 2200 mph (3548 kmh).

[@xv6701]

The first “flying-wing” was actually first flown in the 40s. It has the same basic external dimensions as the B-2 Spirit.

[@chrissauter7501]

4:43 black project refers to a project that is codename classified (higher than Top Secret)

[@lp8436]

"Black project" can also refer to the color of money used to fund the program. There are "colors" of money within the DoD and black projects mask where it actually goes.

[@badguy1481]

Wow! Great information that, probably, MOST of us have never seen!

[@NathanMalnaa]

Hey guys, you should react to Independence Day for July 4th this year 😎

[@LA_HA]

I vote for this

[@geoffreywood5808]

Black project is so secret that only a handful of people (those actually working directly on it) have ANY knowledge of it. Of those few, most only know a very small percentage of the total project.

[@pmazurek559]

I live in Central California I've heard this plane flyover several times. Never saw it but I could hear it. A pulsating jet engine.

[@Seastallion]

The footage from the beginning of the video is from the movie Top Gun: Maverick.

[@dead-claudia]

22:31 hermes' quarterhorse is designed mainly to run research payloads. hermes is using this to help fund their greater ambitions of a hypersonic civilian airliner. and cost minimization is crucial in keeping it affordable. ticket costs will be high, but there will be people who need the speed. i can imagine stuff like emergency intercontinental flights being among the first use cases.

[@chrisvibz4753]

Love you, James! you guys travel HOW YOU WANT. Enjoy our country how you please!

[@zaphods2ndhead193]

An old friend of mine was a fighter pilot in flew in Viet Nam. One day he was returning to base to land when the radioed him to take a heading directly out to see and eject out of the aircraft and let it crash. A boat would pick him up. Decades later he found out that was because a SR-71 had come to the base to refuel. It was still a secret and had not be come public knowledge yet. So, if the SR-72 is public now, it has been flying for years, probably.

[@XRP2020]

Mach 6 = 4,603mph

[@peensteen]

Mach numbers aren't absolute, they vary depending on the speed of sound, which changes depending on environmental factors. It's an equation that has a different result depending on the altitude. For example, the X-15 rocketplane hit Mach 6.04 at 101,600 feet, which in this case is 4,094 mph. Feel free to scream "NEEEERRRD" at me, it's what I would do.

[@user-ne2pm2sj6r]

@@peensteen nah man.... That's factual info that most ppl dont know. they assume that the speed of sound is whats stated at sea level bc thats the first answer that shows up when you google it.

[@thumper7047]

There was (at least in testing) a fighter version of the SR-71 called the YF-12.

[@rwrws8318]

All of the Pilots of the SR-71 had to go through Space training.

[@Wearywastrel]

Lasers definitely make more sense for a plane going that fast. Bomb bay doors and brackets wouldn't hold up well against the drag from moving that quickly.

[@bobbyquinting3918]

The /SR-71 was designed for speed and not a butt ton of bombs. It's mission was simple -take photos really fast and get out of danger as fast as possible. It was not a "WAR" plane in a sense, It was a "SPY" plane. If it had any heavy bombs on it -it would have been a lot slower.

[@JimHoltslander]

Oh man Son of Blackbird is the best name. SR-72 SOB....!!!!!!! Best double meaning 😂❤

[@ScuffedEngineer]

The video wasn't trying to say that it's out of reach to create a material that is radar absorbing and can handle high heat. Yes, many radars work off of given frequencies, but you can also just look for a heat signature if you can't already visually spot it. I'd imagine this aircraft in flight would look similar to a meteor/ shooting star to people on the ground. If it gets a weapons bay that is similar to the F-22 and F-35, lockheed has shown they worked with another company to create a maneuverable hypersonic (mach 5) air to ground missile that fits in the aforementioned aircraft.

[@user-hz7mo1zn5k]

I live near beale air force base ,where they housed the SR-71.

[@bobbyquinting3918]

The problem with super fast air planes and hyper cars is that they are only good in a straight line. They can't change directions quickly without severe damage.

[@yugioht42]

Mach 6 is basically you half blink and it’s gone. It’s that fast. A Mach one is a full blink. Six times the speed of sound. That’s really pushing the engines. Fighter jets max out at Mach 3.5 to which even their own missiles can’t get guidance systems correct and the jet outpaces the missile.

[@yugioht42]

Yep Eglin Air Force Base in the panhandle. I knew a little of what is out there mostly as the base is a known experimental aircraft testing facility. They also train new pilots there. honestly it doesn’t surprise me that new planes are being tested already.

[@KevinLockamy]

My older sister was a reconnaissance photo tech for the Air Force back in the late '70's. I remember she was on leave one time, and on the TV was some military mouthpiece doing a horrible job trying to cast doubt about the existence of the SR-71. My sister started to get visibly antsy and was groaning at every weak statement. When I noticed, she decided that I was just a dumb kid and, 'who would I tell, and who would believe me if I did', then revealed that not only did she know that it existed but that she was one of the few people authorized to access it so that she could retrieve the film magazine, and (with a dark look of satisfaction) that not even her direct C.O. could make that claim.

[@JIMBEARRI]

The Concorde's top speed was Mach 2.04 [2179 kph; 1354 mph]. By comparison, the "officially claimed" [real was probably higher] top speed of the SR-71 was Mach 3.34 [3529 kph; 2193 mph] If the top speed of the SR-72 is Mach 6 that would equal 7409 kph; or 4603 mph.

[@jamieivester8362]

Just so everyone knows & it doesn't go unsaid... This jet achieves 5000 miles per hour! Mach 1 is 767.29 mph

[@AslanRW]

During a 1929 lecture in Zurich, Swiss engineer Jakob Ackeret named the term "Mach" (Mach 1) after physicist Ernst Mach who conducted an experiment photographing an object moving faster than the speed of sound in 1887. Mach 1 = 767.269 mph Mach 3.2 = 2,455.26 mph Mach 6 = 4,603.61 mph Mach 20 = 15,345.4 mph

[@dead-claudia]

14:36 lockheed martin has stated there is a stealth coating. they have not confirmed if this stealth coating works at hypersonic speeds, but it's plausible it does.

[@williamshepherd1531]

Kinda feels like old times. HAY. William s

[@danor6812]

The SR-71's top speed is listed at MACH 3.2. It's true top speed is still considered Top Secret. Which leads me to believe before they use planes that can flay at or faster than the SR-71. They need weapons that will fly faster so they don't shoot themselves down.

[@keithweaver7585]

I like Dark Star too. Mach 1 is the speed of sound... Like 767 MPH... So mach 6 is 4600 MPH or like 7500 KPH. No wonder it can outrun anything shot at it...

[@jerrymathis5740]

Hope you guys feel better soon..

[@xv6701]

I personally love ‘Son of Blackbird’ as service members would certainly call it the SR-72 SOB

[@SalyLuz-hc6he]

💙💛♥️😍👍🏼My choice as well!!

[@danielmcgraw7908]

The maintenance, per hour flown, is staggering, both in man hours needed and general costs.

[@MeetTheSLAYER]

A Black Project is beyond a Secret project. Only certain people would know about the project before it is finished, which excludes the President, the President will be informed of the aircraft AFTER project completion. The F5 is still in operation today, just some FYI.

[@stevenmorales7041]

Mach 6 is crazyy 😂 I work inspecting Pratt and Whittney parts for the military didn’t know there could have been part of a black bird lmao 👏🏽🔥🔥

[@kevananne]

Top Gun is definitely one to check out! It’s a classic.

[@user-es4bd6xp1w]

Mach 20 is 15,345 mph wow

[@hardwire99cdj30]

The Reaper, there is no escaping it.

[@sullyway51]

All the pictures show are from the second TOP GUN: Maverick

[@jeffferguson4637]

God Bless y’all

[@actadiurna6733]

I think I saw a Blackbird (the predecessor of this aircraft) flying over a wilderness area in the US a couple decades ago.

[@brianjordan-5357]

Mach=speed of sound.

[@libertywolf93]

Black Project: Refers to each top secret line item in the DoD yearly budget. All of the different top secret projects are lumped together in one big overall Black Project Budget. It's way to hide publicly accessible records via FOIA requests. Since the only thing revealed under the Black Budget is each projects codename.

[@waltergraves3273]

Actually it has nothing to do with FOIA. There is a large amount of defense information that is not subject to FOIA. It has everything to do with keeping the program a secret. Black projects are not only Top Secret, but compartmentalized. So even if you have a Top Secret clearance or even a TS-SCI clearance you are not given access to this programs information unless you are read in and thus part of that compartment.

[@libertywolf93]

@@waltergraves3273 I just used FOIA as an example.

[@mikebalzano2108]

Very interesting now check out some videos about the “Black Manta” aircraft and its technologies. I wonder how many more aircraft and rockets they’re not talking about especially with the military’s Space Force vehicles that you probably won’t see flying within the earth’s atmosphere unless you can spot them in space using a telescope.

[@woofdogmeow]

I would call it the SR-72 Shadow streak because that is all you would see of it in flight.🤣

[@mdejesus91890]

There's a video comparing the speeds of aircraft that features the SR-72. You should give it a look. The channel is called RED SIDE.

[@danielmcgraw7908]

Mach 6 is 4100 mph. If I remember correctly, SR71 was capable of 3,000 mph and the next fastest aircraft was about 75% of that speed. The only thing that was faster than the SR71 was a surface to air or air to air missile. The issue was by, the time you fired the missile, the aircraft was far enough away that the missile would run out of propellant.

[@michaelshelton8802]

Mach 6 is roughly 1.28 miles per second!

[@apb0327]

A black project means that it is off the books because it is so secret. You won't find it on a budget or expenditures list. The costs will either be tied onto another project budget, listed under some miscellaneous categories or simply not accounted for.

[@apb0327]

Mach 6 would be 6x the speed of sound or roughly 4500 MPH. I hope your family is feeling better. Thanks for the videos!

[@Dagobah359]

A secret project is one where it's acknowledged but the info and details about it are classified as secret. A black project is one whose very existence is classified. Like a black hole, no info is (supposed to be) getting out about it.

[@Treasacello]

Black projects are usually projects that are developed off the books. You might have heard of Skunkworks or DARPA. It just means there wasn't an official line item designation on the military budget that designated a certain amount of money for it every year.

[@robertmurray6340]

Look up the aurora plane which is similar. But now we also have the TR3B. It will be 25 years before they admit the TR3B.

[@dishmanw]

There were stories of people seeing contrails produced by a SCRAM Jet.

[@1Adam20]

@25:54 So, overall speed of the SR-72 Mach 6 at 85000-ft or 4000 mph (6451 km/h).

[@spyker696]

Imagine energy weapons, weather manipulating weapons... what would be next? I can only imagine where human curiosity will Launch humanity into the future.

[@wittsullivan8130]

The A-12 Blackbird was designed to be a high altitude, high speed interceptor to shoot down bombers or ICBM's before they reached the US or Canada. The plane flew too fast, it could outrun the missiles they had at the time, but they still needed a reconnaissance plane that was untouchable by surface to air missiles. Satellite imaging wasn't as good then as it is now, they relied on the U-2 recon plane, but the Chinese and Russian surface to air missiles could shoot it down. The SR-71 had "iron ball" paint, which was ultra flat black paint mixed with tiny steel balls to capture and re-direct radar signals. They still use the U-2, btw. A "black project" is a super classified project that even most members of Congress don't even know about. A certain amount of the US military budget goes into a "black budget" for ultra secret projects, the kind that you either end up under the jail or shot in the head for revealing.

[@zrebbesh]

If you live near an airbase and pay attention, from time to time you see a plane that doesn't correspond to anything you can easily identify. I always used to wonder if certain things were secrets or if they were known but not widely publicized. There have been rumors of an airplane called "Aurora" for decades. This looks like it.

[@andystewart581]

At 12:52 is an artist rendition of a pulse jet. This type of engine allows for take-off and continuous super high speeds by controlled mini explosions. Other countries have been complaining for at least 10 years about the US flying pulse jet aircraft over their counties. Nickname? "Andy." Since my useful life is over and I spend my retirement watching these videos, I would love to spend the next 30 or 40 years remaining hearing my name called.

[@troyfelsman583]

I live in the NW in the Rockies and I am pretty sure I saw a pulse jet fly over head at about two AM while out on my deck. Of course, alcohol could have affected my vision….

[@thumper7047]

Mach is simply the speed of sound, so Mach 3 is 3x the speed of sound - the speed of sound can be influenced by the atmosphere, so it's an estimate usually 1,235 km/h; 767 mph

[@samueladams1775]

The SR71 could actually fly Mach 3.5. Beyond that the plane would start having problems, but the engines were capable of pushing the plane faster than what was safe. The U.S. government always has a replacement when they retire something. I suspect they have had a hypersonic craft since early 2000s. They had already developed the scramjet in the 1990s.

[@1Adam20]

@18:00 2 Billion...we spend nearly 900 billion overall on the Military. In contrast, the UK spends 54.2 billion pounds.

[@TheSurvivorsHut]

Mach 1 = 767mph = 1235kph

[@vmcgriff]

Black in this case mean top secret- like Black Ops… which you might have heard before. Love your channel! ❤

[@NotSoFast71]

The term "Mach" means the speed of sound at sea level. Mach 1 is 761 miles an hour or 1235 km/hour. Mach 6 is six times this speed.

[@markoconnell804]

Show us where the US Airforce revealed this.

[@williambranch4283]

Mach 20 is 14,000 mph ... enough to reach orbit directly.

[@wittsullivan8130]

The funny thing...there are groupies who hang out around Edwards Air Force Base and Area 51 with high resolution cameras with big lenses trying to catch stills and video of various secret aircraft. A lot of test flights are held during the night so cameras from the ground or satellites can't see them. That's why there's a lot of UFO's reported in that area. it's stuff that no one but the people working on them know about them. When they do daylight tests, they usually do a press conference with some photos because they know there's so many cameras waiting to see stuff. Revell model company pays the groupies for photos of secret aircraft tests and they have former military intelligence photo analysts who study the grainy photos to make out details so they can be the first to release model kits of the latest and greatest. ironically, when they did the first public reveal of the F-117, they used a still photo of a Revell model. Revell couldn't exactly sue them for using a picture of their model without permission, when they hired photographers to "spy" on their test sites. :) Another model kit Revell released was the next gen (after the SR-71) Aurora spyplane/stealth fighter. Technology overshadowed the Aurora with the project scrapped and replaced by the F-117. A lot of these planes have been in development for over a decade, just waiting for materials science to catch up with their ideas. The SR-117 Nighthawk is also known as the Wobblin' Goblin because it has such an unstable airframe for stealth, it needs computers to control it, translating the pilot's input to the guidance surfaces, which is why the SR-72 has an "Artoo" unit. R2 units are used to interpret the pilot's input to the surface areas and to make minor repairs during combat.

[@sdv73168]

At 8:39, did anyone else notice it said Top Run instead of Top Gun?

[@tommyhallum2054]

Keep in mind that it cost $2 billion to make the B2 in the late 80s. I couldn't imagine what it would cost to build it from the ground up these days. Probably 10 billion.

[@calixmeus4374]

Skunkworks has many super secret projects or black projects.

[@TonyM1961]

Guaranteed that no matter what they publicly admit it is capable of, the reality far exceeds it. There's literally no way to arm it since it flies so fast that it would shoot itself down because the munitions are far slower. Only a beam weapon could outrun it. Also, you can bet that if they say that a prototype "is coming soon" that they already have a couple at least and are working out the bugs before unveiling it

[@cerescop]

If they had hi temp stealth they would have used it on the F-35. They still have to keep repairing the radar absorbing material the F-35 is sheathed in. If the F35 stays at high speed the heat built up degrades the radar absorbing material, I have read.