Has the SR-72 finally entered production??

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[@riskinhos]

your videos are getting worse and worse. it's shit. in the beginning they were kinda nice but now it's all bs and clickbaits and bias and misinformation and clickbaits. it's kinda sad to see all the decline

[@tmarkcommons174]

It seems to me that satellites working with a boost/glide hypersonic missile should have no trouble identifying and locking on a hypersonic plasma trail. Ya got anything on that, Alex?

[@davidwalker9035]

Here are my two cents. By the time it was detected to the time of launch, SR72 would be long gone.

[@danahebdon6810]

​@riskinhos - You're sadly misinformed. There's a significant amount of things going on in highly classified aerospace projects,he has to be very careful in how he disseminates the information that has been shared with him. This is why some of the information specifically seems a bit vague.

[@riskinhos]

@@danahebdon6810 there was nothing shared with him. stop being a twat

[@countvonthizzle9623]

"as the Air Force tries to find ways to pay for it." So, the car wash, bake sale, & lemonade stand just weren't cutting it?

[@hiratiomasterson4009]

There is ALWAYS money to pay for a unique, high value capability that gives the US a strategic edge...but if the platform is unreliable, doesn't perform as promised...then it can join the A-12 Avenger, RAH-66 Comanche and others in the dustbin...

[@rtyrsson]

I think if we cut out the funds for DEI initiatives and pushing other leftist ideologies, trim down the fraud, waste, and abuse in DoD budgeting, that we would find there is plenty of money for it.

[@mrhassell]

Apparently, in top secret "black ops" compartment of USAF, they're operating at least one 300 foot Octagonal ARV (Alien Reproduction Vehicle). Witnessed two decades ago, during the Indonesian Tsunami 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. xUS Marines/Delta level Spec-Ops private contractors, encountered regular US Marines while there on a human aid/peacekeeping mission, and nearly coming to blows exchanging live fire, "smokin' one another" while these people are so secretive, likely, they don't exist... Privately contracted special operators collected 9 repurposed refrigerated (reefers) shipping containers, modified for and containing living human beings... human trafficking, is allegedly now just one part of many new gigs, including trafficking narcotics/contraband weapons, zipping around the World undetected at Mach 35+. I'm not making one word of this up, but it seems possible/plausible/probable someone did - lol - check it out >> @SRS EP #66 - Sean Ryan Show, Michael Herrera.

[@lesliegrayson1722]

Just take $$ from Australia, We (aussies) buy heaps more from the USA than the US does from AUD$ Maybe more US people need top move here :D US takes it from us we take it from China :D as long as we can buy computers and play games all day that's what counts!!

[@flyingscalpel7]

The Air force doesn't need to find a way to pay for anything

[@MrBillsfishin]

My Dad passed away 9 years ago but had retired from Skunkworks and Northrup. He worked on the prototype F22 and F35 and many others prior. Given a comment he once told me the SR72 very well is flying because he stated with planes and materials the general public will not be aware of it for roughly 10 to 20 years after we have used it or created it. I always thought that was so interesting. The chemicals that wonderful man was exposed to in 50 years of doing a job he loved before all the safety stuff was implemented. Lol

[@mrhassell]

Likewise the Chinese know that the SR-72 Darkstar, isn't just a sci-fi movie from 1974. Having encountered 2 over Chinese air-space in the 1980s. Recorded in-flight sensor data, their return path to the USA was diverted to the UK, when one encountered an engine problem and required that a UK airbase evacuated for these two "classified" aircraft, which operated with the callsigns designated as; Darkstar 20 and Darkstar 21. The GEPRC "DarkStar20", is a compact remote control quadcopter, designed for both indoor 4K video shooting and outdoor flying. Products now use marketing, to suppress information. This clever strategy continues to gain traction, resulting from B-grade movies. With the bonus being financial, the result of the many products made, as sales (used to add further finance back into covert operations, in addition to supersaturation of information that might be peering out from any cracks in the intrawebs).

[@RussetPotato]

@@mrhassell reminds me of the Testor F19 frissbee!

[@mrhassell]

@@RussetPotato AyTen Tog Fairchild of the Republic true! Just fix'd the back flips

[@kiabtoomlauj6249]

Not sure why people of the KZbin/FB age ---- with high end cell phones that are orders of magnitude faster than actual CRAY SUPER COMPUTERS from the 1980s to early 90s, when the F-22 went into production ---- think Americans CAN NO LONGER BUILD FAST PLANES, like Donald J. Trump & Co keep babbling. The US's military and NASA can and do build very fast planes. If they could do it without super computers, with the SR-71, they could tie one hand behind their back and do it today, with ease! Question is about PRIORITY and resource utilization. The roles the the SR-71, the U-2 "spy plane," etc. did it in the 1950 - 80s are EASILY done leveraging satellites and other means and technologies. The SR-71 was exceptional, as an aircraft, especially in its times of the 1960s - 80s... but it was a super expensive project to operate, with very limited benefits. It's the SAME REASON the US couldn't/can't afford to operate 200 or 500 F-22, each costing over $300M... Any airplane that cost over $300M per unit... NO NATION, including the US, could operate more than a few to a few dozens of them. It's just too expensive. Whatever "stealth" task the $300M F-22 could do, the single engine, $100M F-35 could do it, even with it could only do it at 80% of the maxium speed of the more powerful F-22. All things considered, that is not that bad ... especially if you could operate only 145 F-22. The US, by the mid 2030, will be operating a 2,500 - 3,000 F-35s... And roughly 99.99% of all the things the F-22 is tasked to do, on a daily basis, CAN BE DONE by the older but still mighty F-15.... because the two could fly up to Mach 3 for brief periods, as very powerful machines. The ONE or TWO tasks that only the F-22 was built to do, which the F-15 can't do as well, is to go OFFENSIVELY into dangerous AIR SPACE contested by Russian and Chinese fighter jets.... But that is LIKELY NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN...... because if that did happen, then it would mean NUCLEAR MISSILE EXCHANGE likely is at hand ... And, in that case, NO FIGHTER JET OR BOMBER is worth that much, since ICBMs and SLBMs could travel from point A to point B up to Mach 26. Fighter jets and bombers doing Mach 1 to Mach 3 are snails, compared to ICBMs. One ICBM/SLBM/TRIDENT II and its load could do the job of 5 to 10 F-22s and F-35s... but that single Mach-26 ICBM or SLBM could do it 8 to 9 times faster...

[@AEON.]

@@mrhassell Very true and the same goes for many government secret op code names and call signs that have been leaked. Also, suppression of the words with partnership with google within search results for national security, is also very very real.

[@worldwanderer91]

We need to wait for War Thunder leaks for accurate intel confirmation

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

Yeah thats unlikely to happen in this case. Even if it did. No one would believe it

[@marcondespaulo]

Even if it was leaked DoD docs...

[@Rokakan]

Do you think one day it’ll get so bad, governments decide to ban War Thunder in their countries (not including VPN) for National Security

[@smugfrog8111]

@@marcondespaulo That usually means fake data put out to confuse adversaries. Not always, but often.

[@YankaBakasci]

​@@marcondespaulo "Once, is a mistake ". "Twice , is stupidity ". "Third , is a habit ". No one is that incompetent. 😊

[@jamesh1641]

We lived in Palmdale in the late 80s and early 90s. Plant 42 was busier at night than 8 Mile on a Saturday night.

[@MeMyselfI_69]

Yup I was there

[@rungfang27]

What about 8 mile on payday?

[@thomashenshallhydraxis]

I live here now. I love what comes out here

[@blackrockcity]

Yes, Reagan rebuilt the military instead of educating the people. Now half of the country is governed by conspiracy theories and the Bible.

[@jamesh1641]

@@rungfang27yeah you’ve not been to Detroit. Work. What’s that?

[@xjdisuehd]

30 years later - Tom Cruise was the first guy ever to fly the SR-72, we just told it off like it was a dummy to throw off China.

[@damitcam]

They literally did this with the f117 lol

[@TadashiAbashi]

Eww, tom cruise. What a psychopath

[@ryszardfalkowski7917]

​@@damitcamLove me some F-117

[@univrzsal]

@@damitcam i wanna read abt this. what happened? what movie

[@ironteacup2569]

I would love it to be true

[@goshring]

Alex, I just have to say thank you for your reporting excellence. You are the go to guy for accurate and legitimate aerospace aviation information and news. Whenever I hear about something new, its you and your team that I go to first for honest and exemplary coverage and information. Your channel is such a breath of fresh air in a world of deceptive and misleading information distribution.

[@micksmith-vt5yi]

lol he is bad actually, Australia is a leader in hypersonics and hopefully fly a scramjet powered drone before USA will get any of theirs off the ground. HACAM and HAWC scramjet missiles all developed under HIFIRE and SCIFIRE joint USA, Australia hypersonic programmes. even other journalists say this and any info if dig deep said it. Alex only said USA did it all... If you want propaganda USA is world leader in everything then watch his dribble. if want truth he is a liar or a bad journalist.

[@nadejdakostin8700]

Thank you!

[@The_ZeroLine]

I want to thank you for your thanks.

[@Ifoughtpiranhas]

I clicked on this faster than a top secret twin engine ramjet plane.

[@siphotheguy1870]

How would you know that when that information is classified?

[@artsseriouschannel]

"Vee have our Vays!" ​@@siphotheguy1870

[@jamesogden7756]

​@@siphotheguy1870OSINT. Read more. 😂😂

[@americanninja9163]

@@siphotheguy1870 didn't you see top gun: maverick the documentary?

[@unmatort]

No Way, said Putin

[@normanmadden]

More likely: "How many SR-72s are in today's print queue?"

[@Jt7624]

This

[@ThomasBestonso-zr4ko]

it's here, how many do we have already is the question ..

[@charlesgay-ms6yt]

Yes

[@pburgvenom]

lol

[@adamb8317]

There’s not a lot of evidence that they are in service. They definitely have been developed though

[@PStevesson]

The emus already have a fleet of them and are planning a revenge attack

[@greghight954]

So the emus want to conquer more than Australia?

[@MrSpectralmania]

💀💀💀

[@john_in_phoenix]

A fellow Perun nerd!

[@GRIGGINS1]

Bah Kiwi land will always win.

[@stephenbernard3003]

Kiwiland has has superior air defense and it’s a lie that any plane could even penetrate our K-500 defenses.

[@rogermiller2159]

Super sonic business “is booming”.

[@jeffreyholdeman3042]

I see what you did there…..

[@darkbooger]

😑

[@williamcase426]

hell yeah

[@rocknrollajohnnyquid876]

Actually hypersonic and high hypersonic. Supersonic is last century stuff😂

[@isaacbrown4506]

And hypersonic business is smashing glass ceilings, literally and figuratively

[@geraint8989]

What the Chinese need to determine is whether this is a septuple bluff or an octuple bluff…

[@timmilder8313]

The chinese need to learn to count. If they knew that, their entire economy wouldn't resemble Enron

[@IDF4HELL]

Took the words out of my mouth lol

[@bobbyr8071]

Hypersonic missile tests are failing but we have hypersonic aircraft 🤔🤔

[@boris001000]

​@@timmilder8313A fall from the inventors of Abacus, indeed.

[@Josh-ify]

INCONCEIVABLE!

[@texasranger24]

4:36 to skip the ad

[@Yuki_Ika7]

thanks, i already use ground news so i don't need to be convinced to use it lol

[@140theguy]

Me: How rude!🤬 Also Me: Good looking out. 👍Skip🤗🤣

[@connorcorbett4979]

thanks

[@Mp57navy]

SponsorBlock addons exist.

[@danielmartin7838]

Muchas gracias

[@robertcombs2480]

Am always amazed at how professional your channel is! Great Research!!

[@j.f.fisher5318]

I can't help imagining a connection between NGAD and SR-72

[@sidewinderEV]

It is highly like all the SR-72 rumours, production facilities and funding is related to NGAD. First the NGAD demonstrator has flown and "set records" and now low scale production has begun.

[@kwonekstrom2138]

Very unlikely... SR != fighter. They have very different specifications. The SR-72 would be much closer to the B1. In reality the B-21 is cutting into the NGAD role.

[@A2K.556]

Probably more to do with the “brains” of the aircraft than the speed. Maybe some materials for high heat resistance/durable RAM as well.

[@BoneDragon9524]

Close…That’s the forthcoming SRF-73, the Mach 10 Hypersonic Stealth Global Dominance Fighter program. Stay tuned!

[@sidewinderEV]

@@kwonekstrom2138 All the Mach 5+ specs have been made up by the media. No official quotes say anything about the speed. The renderings of SR-72 and NGAD look extremely similar. NGAD has always been presented as being larger and longer ranged than the F-22. Even the propulsion systems sound similar. NGAD will use variable bypass engines that can easily be mistaken as adaptice propulsion that can switch to ramjet mode. It is very easy for NGAD to be mistaken as a SR-71 replacement. This is the only reason the media have given it a speed faster than the SR-71.

[@citizenblue]

I mainly watch your videos audio only, and they always sound to me like you're standing in front of a whiteboard with yarn connecting the dots. Always a treat when you upload a new video!

[@dmcx4319]

It's weird that within the last couple weeks, I've seen a bunch of "SR-72" videos. I've followed you for a long time, back in you SOF-Rep days and have had a couple texts! With you. If I can ask, what prompted this video? Is it the recent uptake in hypersonic talk, recent media of the actual subject or some contact with Lockheed Martin? I enjoy your videos. Thanks pal.

[@roberticvs]

I heard it has thought-controlled weapons systems, but to use them, you must think in American...

[@supertruckertom]

Хороший справочник по Firefox

[@txoilfield]

If you read Firefox Down, the Mig-31 could withstand submergance in an icy Soviet lake, be pulled out and fly just fine. Can the SR-72 do THAT?

[@roberticvs]

@@txoilfield Notice Alex didn't mention that. Who is he really working for?!

[@Morpheus187]

Think in American ? 😂 Most Americans think in English Except for that Maga crowd.

[@roberticvs]

@@Morpheus187 Having fun. Don't make everything political.

[@noahshupenko]

Read your article on this yesterday. Thank you for making a video.

[@kevinjoiner9847]

Excellent reporting!

[@Shattered3582]

17:13 give who ever made that acronym a huge raise

[@Reepicheep-1]

Coooooobrrraaaaaa!!!!

[@OLDMANTEA]

Word salad!

[@The_ZeroLine]

A medical insurance program beat them to the punch by 40 years, but agreed, it’s a great acronym. You know the lunkheads in procurement will forget about any manufacturing platform if it doesn’t have a badass name.

[@toolkit71]

I still have a poster of the SR-71 from the...no idea 80's I think, and then the Firefox movie poster as well with I think Clint Eastwood...always loved the SR-71 and got to see the F-117 at an air demonstration in the 80/90's....these planes are amazing...thanks for the video's for a aircraft nerd.

[@bencapps5509]

Lockheed Martin is also building a new facility in Cortland, Alabama. I don't think it would have anything to do with the SR-72, but they're working on it. I think they're building it on an old army Air Base

[@danfreeman9079]

Hypersonic missiles

[@albertf.2639]

LOL @! THEY WILL BE BUILDING THE X-65 DRONE AT THIS LOCATION.. AS CONFIRMED BY DEFENSE DEPT . $$$$$$$$$$$$

[@smithnwesson990]

I told everyone and no one believed me. That Darkstar aircraft isn't fake. It's a wink wink moment showing off a scaled down demonstrator of an actual aircraft.

[@micksmith-vt5yi]

Even Australia test fly a scramjet hypersonic drone by next 300 days and helped USA in hypersonics since 2000's. i believe SR72 is getting built but when is flight ready is the issue as can follow USA hyprsonics through HIFIRE and now SCIFIRE joint USA,AUS hypersonic tests. Look up Hypersonixs company from Australia won a USA DUI HYCAT contract to build USA hypersonic vehicles and bet it beat Hermeus at it too...

[@Youtubeuser1aa]

Yes they left a SAP airframe laying around in public

[@xkavarsmith9322]

Yeah, it's a scaled down fighter version of the SR-71, we know, we want to officially see it 😂😂😂

[@texasranger24]

A video about the X65 and active flow control would be cool.

[@caulksmith]

About 10 years ago I went on a failed hiking trip to the most difficult to reach ghost town in the world. Because of flat tires and being 40 miles from the nearest paved road we opted to abort and just hike the time we had allotted along ridge lines. I will not disclose where this California location was. We were treated to see at least a dozen Air Force and Navy fighters engaged in mock combat over the valley we coukd observe day and night (with red navi lights on) and a pair of F-18’s tearing by us at eye level entering the valley below. Fun fact.. I had heard and read stories about “Aurora” for years and the famous “donuts on a rope” contrail that is only theoretically possible with a scramjet or pulse-jet engine. That day we saw a contrail that looked like a laser beam from one horizon to the other dotted perfectly with round rings equally spaced around it that had appeared without sound or us noticing its formation despite nearly constantly watching the sky. SOMETHING made that.. and that was around 2012. There is no way anything close to current tech is known publicly.

[@randomthings3776]

Just watched your F-16 video. I loved your depth on the weapons employed by the aircraft. Do you think you could make a video about all of the weapons we employ through our aircraft? I love the work you do keep it up ❤

[@Nehockeyplayer]

Great video sandbox is in my favorite 3 news stations! You guys do the Best work.

[@SDsc0rch]

4:36 --- START

[@riskinhos]

the videos are getting worse and worse. it's shit. in the beginning they were kinda nice but now it's all bs and clickbaits and bias and misinformation and clickbaits. it's kinda sad to see all the decline

[@BaBaYaga1999-p7u]

@@riskinhosso, what you’re saying is - not a fan?

[@2goober4u]

​@@riskinhos clickbait and clickbait?

[@mENTALdRIFTER]

@@riskinhos theres a sort of thing that happens as any media enterprise grows. the people who started it want to honor the success by polishing the product and moving to reliable production rates. that typically sees the starters emulate other enterprises, thus moving away from the original feel of the enterprise. it also sees them have to stretch certain stories longer than they might otherwise like, or cover topics which they might not originally have considered, as the world does not always produce enough events to cover within said enterprise's niche. it's just a thing. hating on them for it isnt exactly productive, but i guess it is also understandable

[@RogierYou]

Thanks

[@markmitchell5220]

Revisiting this and still cracked up over the mischievous tone and info you put into the episode! 😃

[@moonasha]

if it does exist, it better be called SR-72 Darkstar.

[@alphazero6571]

this bird has been flying since the 90s. its been sighted multiple times

[@johnclaudetaylor5224]

its real it was announced.. It is insane

[@EricWillis77]

Yeah if it’s called sr69 kitty cat or something stupid I will be angry 😂

[@alphazero6571]

@@johnclaudetaylor5224 its been flying since the 90s when the blackbird retired..they are just going to roll them out now and say look what we JUST made.

[@RussetPotato]

@@alphazero6571which we all know is code for we have something better and you’ll learn about that one after the fact much like them stealth blackhawks that had a secret career and were pulled from mothballs for the zero dark thirty situation

[@MedellinTangerine]

Great video. Thanks again for the analysis

[@ohyeah466]

Already nice video! Thank you sir!

[@davids1inwestholl45]

Another fantastic video connecting dots that very few others can! That's why I never miss a drop...

[@bushgreen260]

*The speed is already confirmed to be Mach 6 to 9* In 2019 Executive vice president of aeronautics at Lockheed Martin Orlando Carvalho said. “Hypersonics is like stealth. It is a disruptive technology and will enable various platforms to operate at two to three times the speed of the (SR-71) Blackbird… Operational survivability and lethality is the ultimate deterrent. Security classification guidance will only allow us to say the speed is greater than Mach 5.”

[@Jkaninteangemittnamn]

its more likely like a mig-25 - cant do anything but speed and when its does max mach it burn out its engines + can fire only 2 rockets -Thats why its secret - Its a disgrace performance when its finally revelead - You can ride a bullet only once , like papermugs you only use once

[@mrhassell]

Mach 69 sounds less likely, even if a whole lot more sexy...

[@BKD70]

SDI, anyone?

[@jasonvick55]

I read your article on Sandboxx News and it was the perfect compliment to this video. Thanks Alex!

[@yusefs3550]

I'm sure they have something. I had this weird aircraft fly down to the center of a lake one night while I was stargazing. It was dark so I couldn't tell you the exact shape but it was round and sleek with no wings. The craziest part though was that it had a greenish/turquoise tail like exhaust that would bend whenever the craft turned. It turned and scooted/jolted foward like it was showing off but moved very smoothly. It also made no noise at all. This was 8 yrs ago and I've been waiting on some type of new aircraft to be revealed but nothing yet

[@TaytayteamTaytay]

The only way to bend exhaust is if it is using positively charged particles for propulsion and had a magnetic confinement ring to direct that exhaust and it would also be very loud as that would be a very powerful engine so you had a dream and you think it was real. Keep dreaming buddy because that wasn’t and won’t be possible for at least a couple decades

[@yusefs3550]

​@@TaytayteamTaytay Weak. I had a dream? Nope, I was with other people as well that saw it. No matter what excuse you come up with in your head to make yourself feel better won't change the facts. Do your research on Irans military and the crashed ufo they retrieved. Russia and Iran concluded that it came from a certain country and had characteristics of a meteor when in flight.

[@TaytayteamTaytay]

@@yusefs3550 Plus what does that have to do with your dream cause it makes no sense.

[@The_ZeroLine]

This is also the classified version of a halo product. Even if it’s a loss, its eventual unveiling will continue to grow Lockheed’s legend…not to mention expertise.

[@willywonka4340]

I'm here in Arcadia CA, about 40 or so miles from Palmdale. For months, in the middle of the night, folks on Ring App would report inexplicable loud booms. Either someone said a transformer nearby blew, yet none were found, or the adjacent city of Irwindale, known for its quarry fields, were to blame... yet they weren't digging. I knew better.😂

[@lukeshoff3983]

I Live in palmdale. We dont get the booms late at night, but very deep rumbles. Its not a normal plane sound, nor any plane I've heard before, and ive heard plenty of planes. It kind of feels like its everywhere, you cant point it out but it just sound like its everywhere above you.

[@JULIAN11.]

​@@lukeshoff3983Doesn't that happen when it is a high flying aircraft? Like it is so high up that the "cone" in which the sound expands gets really wide and you can't pinpoint the direction apart form simply coming from above Anything flying at hypersonic speeds would need to be really high altitude due to air density and heating - so even if it is not the SR-72 it could be a high flying platform The more interesting question in my opinion, is there any possible platform that would be so high as to not be able to identify where the sound comes from and at the same time have engines powerful enough to be easily heard that isn't the SR-72 or a platform with similar capabilities? I'd say that no, but highly secretive aircraft are not my area of expertise

[@TaytayteamTaytay]

You think they fly supersonic near towns? No because it’s a major health risk and danger to the general public and it would be to easy for Spy’s to locate and observe. Brain rot is ruining society

[@chrivedy]

Thank you again Alex for producing these gems

[@foxbtry212]

Love your videos, keep it up!

[@jonniiinferno9098]

your videos are always awesome - right on time and very much appreciated...

[@PedroHenriquePS00000]

Ive seen a weird plane, some would call it an ufo but it was clearly human, no physics bending technology. Remove the image of the darkstar from the movies, ive seen something that looks a lot like a black star, or flower doing a vtol. But it seems like it was also able to go hypersonic given the design. It was most likely unmand but it had 5 wings like a drone, i thintk the vtol worked like harrier, with thursthers in the "wings". The wings also looked like they folded, DEFINETLY stealth, f117 style but faster looking... craazy plane. Cant wait until they unveil it like oh weve been using this for 40+ years

[@sabre_phoenix5996]

Bravo Alex, this is some of your best work!

[@jeremy7383]

Love your content and want to support you. Some feedback, intros and ads are just too long. 4:37 start of the video. I appreciate what you do and get having a sponsor but please consider reducing the spotlight length.

[@colinbarnard6512]

Mr. Holling, I wonder if you could devote some time, in an upcoming episode, to discussing scramjet propulsion to achieve orbital velocity (25,000 km/h) , and insetion, for an aerospace craft. As much as we all love what SpaceX is doing with Starship, the real 'holy grail' of spaceflight is an SSTO spacecraft that is both reusable, and subject to quick turnaround. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

[@Sailor376also]

I think that yes, something very fast is already flying. I have jobs well out into the Arizona desert. I also have a love of aircraft and decades of looking up Something silent or nearly so flew over about a year ago. Daytime, contrail, extremely high altitude, aircraft not visible save for a tiny glint at times. And fast, very fast. If it was as high as I suspect, double commercial flights 60 70? thousand feet? It still covered the sky at three and four times as fast as a commercial at 35,000 feet. Fast. The angular change would imply mach numbers of 3 or 4 at least. So,, I don't know.

[@dextermorgan1]

I believe you but I can promise you, this thing would not be silent. Far from it

[@Mp57navy]

@@dextermorgan1 Very little air at +70k feet.

[@philipr.6090]

Very interesting -- thanks!

[@bingo5694]

I love this period of speculation on a new platform. Reminds me of speculation about the stealth fighter when I was kid. But here we've traded magazine covers, toys and video games for the entirety of the internet opinions and visions.

[@smugfrog8111]

I'm not convinced they didn't soft disclose the real plane in Top Gun.

[@codedinfortran]

Hey, Alex.😢 I am long-timed subscribed and I always Like👍 I hardly ever comment. But this one is just -exceptionally- good journalism. And your presentation of the material, while you're always very good, in this case is just flawless. Kudos & congrats! 👏 And keep up the good work.

[@TheOneWhoMightBe]

Nothing to do with the video, but B-2's are flying around Brisbane, Australia (Amberley AFB) the last few days. Interesting, given the occasional whispers of selling the B-21 to Oz.

[@kathrynck]

Not saying it's impossible, but AFGSC (formerly SAC) wouldn't even let the regular branches of the US air force play with toys like the B-2. Thus low-tech "hand me downs" like the F117. So the vegas odds aren't too good. But whenever I make predictions about governmental choices (based on what would make sense), I end up being wrong... so _shrug_

[@micksmith-vt5yi]

@@kathrynck Read latest AUKUS agrement all 3 countries are lifting technology legislation so all 3 can share more high technology between all 3 nations, even Australia has advanced tech USA is not allowed to have...

[@overworlder]

B2s are on regular rotation to Australia

[@micksmith-vt5yi]

@@overworlder Yea every year these come to Australia and do practise also USA tests their stealth against Ausralia JORN OTHR radar since it is the most advanced in the world..

[@HRM.H]

How naive can you be​@@micksmith-vt5yi

[@SohoComedyClubLondon]

Vago Muradian is a solid journalist. You’re right to give his article credence. I know him and his reporting from back when I was the aviation guy at Defense News and Jane’s Defence Weekly.

[@steveshoemaker6347]

You are on the right track ALEX🇺🇸

[@dead-claudia]

3:18 lot of people skip your ground news ad read. but you somehow make every single one of them actually informative, so i never skip the whole thing even tho i first downloaded the app over a year ago and even subscribed to it for over a year. (i dropped it between low money and just spending too much time reading stuff in it lol)

[@fakshen1973]

Here are the three important factors in an SR-72 level vehicle. 1. Materials science has rolled forward 60 years. Carbon fibers and new metallurgy has advanced. Avionics have come down in size and weight. We have materials that can handle higher heats, more stress, etc. 2. Construction, assembly, and precision has also moved forward by 60 years. Our tolerances can be tighter. We have robotic aid in construction, advances in simulation and CAD. 3. If that smaller and lighter engine turns out to be a feasible thing, there may have been a redesign that scaled thing down enough that the thrust to mass ratio greatly improved. We're talking a level of difference in construction since that of the F-4 Phantom in fighter jets.

[@fredflint5645]

Very interesting episode. You bring up information that appears to show our country is far ahead of what they are admitting. Only time will tell which program is currently in production.

[@michaelimbesi2314]

Don’t worry, the quotes about Kelly Johnson didn’t negatively impact my opinion of him at all. Anybody who was on the wrong side of Curtis LeMay is somebody worth listening to.

[@jasongarcia2140]

Ive seen a top secret (apparently) narrow triangle shaped jet waaayyyyy high up so high infact that it was inaudible about 20 years ago. It had a huge exhaust plume. It was definitely not a publicly known jet.

[@john_in_phoenix]

If it can really hit mach 6, I don't think there is any production air defense missile that could catch it in a tail chase! Really, who needs a hypersonic missile when you have a gravity bomb dropped at mach 6? The engines are the real secret sauce here.

[@pilotincommand85]

What about thermal protection? The real question is how do you keep a vehicle this fast from melting

[@FloridaManMatty]

@@pilotincommand85VERY expensive ceramic alloys (CERMET), titanium, and high chromium steel among other more advanced materials. Temperature is primarily a concern because most of our solutions weight quite a bit more than you would want to slap onto an airplane.

[@kazioo2]

There is really not that much "magic" or "secret technologies". Heatshields for even higher speeds are studied for decades because of spaceflight - still a huge problem with tons of issues unsolved, but they are good enough to work. No magical material in sight, unfortunately. Same with engines: an air breather that can be great in all speed regimes doesn't exist, so they need hybrid approaches, unfortunately, like combining turbojets with ramjet.

[@john_in_phoenix]

@@pilotincommand85 Thermal protection? The same way they keep the X-37, space shuttle, X-15 and others from melting. I suspect some advancements have even been made since the 1970s shuttle technology. Really it depends on how long the vehicle is subjected to the high temperatures, and reality tells you at mach 6, it doen't have to be for hours at a time. Mach 6 is (depending on the altitude) approximately 4,600 mph. Even at the longest measurement, Russia is 5,600 miles wide, China is 3,600 miles wide. So, under 2 hours maximum.

[@shanek6582]

@@pilotincommand85I honestly don’t know but if it flies at really high altitude would the temperatures be lower because of less dense atmosphere? I guess it wouldn’t have enough oxygen that high to use for powering the plane though

[@grimeline]

Great video!!

[@feelincrispy7053]

I swear before we know it youtube creators are going to stretch the opening sequence to 10min before we know it. 5:30 before anything of note was said in this video. It’s starting to get out of control. I’m at the point where any 20min video I skip to 5 min with absolutely zero worries I’ve missed something

[@saligator8879]

true

[@MultiverseJoe]

Take your Ritalin and relax..

[@richard_zanormous3648]

When the military discloses something like this it means they already have 3-5 generations ahead of it.

[@goofyrulez7914]

BUT, when I go down to COSTCO and buy one? 🙂

[@SM-um1uh]

Hey Alex, can you please change the - Break - section in your written description to - Break Break - It's just what we say over the radio if we have to make a broadcast and then want to talk to ATC in the same transmission, and it sounds way cooler 😎 Thanks Ps you're a legend, keep up the good work!

[@texasranger24]

The US Army just chose General Dynamics and Rheinmetall as finalists for the 4000 Bradley replacement IFVs (well, a year ago). Could you do a Firepower series video about this program, the two finalists and the other three that dropped out. Or more generally the current state of IFVs (Bradley, CV90, Puma, Lynx) and their most likely future. Maybe even including anti air IFVs like some CV90 variants and SkyRanger.

[@riskinhos]

he only does shitty clickbaits full of misinformation now. it's sad

[@FreeRojava2025]

Time to buy a couple stocks in Rheinmetall chat

[@FreeRojava2025]

@@riskinhosnot really buddy

[@gitupmechavvy2569]

Now the first of many is being delivered to Ukraine

[@Dragon-gk3bg]

Sr72 could easily be the new ngad. With the tech today it could easily recon and fight its way out if needed.

[@moshunit96]

Lmao! Not a chance.

[@Rickrick911]

I keep thinking the new tech in 6th gen might be speed. OF coarse that new production facility and the employees might be working on NGAD and not the SR72 with the latter just being an intel decoy.

[@A2K.556]

The biggest issue is cost and maintenance turnaround. Flying at hypersonic speeds is likely to be much more expensive and much longer to repair. Everything comes down to a cost/benefit analysis. Having a dozen or two SR-72’s to spy and deliver weapons to time sensitive targets makes sense. But fielding hundreds of them is probably far too expensive.

[@chadro_g1145]

Wouldn’t the CIA be picking up a chunk of the bill too? Just like they did with the A-12 before becoming the RS-71, then Johnson misspeaking the name and it becoming the SR-71.

[@jcole8008]

Just seen that The EurAsian Times just did an article about this and cited Sandboxx News, awesome stuff Alex!!

[@adamconnell5965]

Might explain some of those otherwise unexplained "sonic booms" over the gulf the last few years... I'm not talking about the confirmed meteorites, but the other mysterious booms.

[@JULIAN11.]

The distance at which a sonic boom can be heard increases with speed (and altitude, which tend to be dependent on one another in these kinds of aircraft) So a higher flying and faster aircraft will make more noise and be able to be heard from a longer distance (unless it is specifically designed to make less noise)

[@stevenjohns-savage7024]

Wow 😳. Hitting the Powerband on the 2stroke 😜

[@mphRagnarok]

"I'm gonna go ahead and quote"

[@MarkGardner66Bonnie]

Love this stuff Alex... thanks I'm Ex Navy and an aviation nerd

[@davidwalker9035]

This is one of my favorite videos to watch

[@39papilindo]

Yes . your assumptions are correct about this plan already being in production

[@Larry_fm_MD]

Question: What would happen if an aircraft opened the payload doors while flying at mach 5, or mach 8, or even mach 10? wouldnt that dramaticly affect flight stability? would they have to reinvent the payload door, the door location or how the payloads are deployed, at such high speeds??

[@bdub1934]

lasers!!!

[@justingrey6008]

Out the back on a sled

[@ecleveland1]

It depends on where the shockwave is and how the engineers dealt with it.

[@GraemeHein]

Even telling you what CFD software or algorithms to use to ask that question would require extreme measures against you, your family, and everyone you know. A reminder that the NSA owned the only reliable cryptography company headquartered in a neutral state (Switzerland) for several decades. The CIA started flying A-12 Oxcart in 62 just 2 years after Powers was shot down. NRO gave NASA a better than Hubble satellite that they had as an on the shelf spare...

[@kwonekstrom2138]

It all depends on where the doors are. At those velocities you'd just need them outside of the shockwave. If the doors exist in a low pressure region then it wouldn't effect the aerodynamics much. Consider why fast jets use a swept wing... the shockwave places the flight surfaces of a straight wing in a low pressure area.

[@digiryde]

Even if it is just a rabbit hole, it is a fun rabbit hole.

[@bryonslatten3147]

Beale AFB about to get its new baby.

[@moonlitfoxling8448]

It's scary how fast and far technology has grown, and will continue to grow, and the way we make things now compared to back then

[@downshift1391]

Babe wake up, a new sandboxx video is out

[@BLD426]

My "Babe" would be slapping me upside the head in my case.😁

[@jamesjross]

what a strange woman

[@yudodis]

We broke up 6 months ago, and I'm changing my Netflix password

[@ljkking622]

Her: I bet he’s thinking about other women Him: I wonder how fast the sr72 will be

[@timbrwolf1121]

Babe wake up! My cat: meow

[@phillipsertich8523]

I’m dying to know a little more about some of the weapons they would use off of a plane like this. What are some of the options? How do you see these weapons being used in combat what types of missions? How flexible of a platform will this be for strike missions. Would love for you to talk about some of the different options for weapons and go into specifics.

[@danstrayer111]

@ 7:05...$325 million loss over 2 years. That's 50 cents a year for every single person in America to retain air dominance .It's a bargain.

[@shanek6582]

Mathematically you’re close enough to correct but in reality some of us would be paying $18 while most of the remaining pay nothing

[@bagpipe1979]

Those engines are pretty nice pieces of kit

[@machdaddy6451]

I do find it funny that the Dark Horse name is also on a Mustang.

[@mrhassell]

Northrop Grumman RQ-180 is different from the Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat, appearing to be a bigger version of Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie "loyal wingman", a continuation of the General Atomics XQ-67A, representative "Gambit 1", the first iteration of previously revealed General Atomics Gambit family. BAE systems integrated loyal wingman functionality for UAVs, now widely deployed globally in "Technology Refresh, Block 3" or TR-3B - exceeded milestone 4.2 in Block 4 upgrades, have been delivered to Lockheed Martin/Northrop Grumman F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter.

[@zspud21]

Damn. Im here 25sec after posting

[@shaundavidssd]

Wow....

[@siphotheguy1870]

I was always here

[@darkphantasm4319]

All these budget overuns are probably NGAD related

[@smithnwesson990]

Such a dumb program. 300 million dollar fighters? I'd rather have 5000 f16 at 45 million each. Hasnt Ukraine showed us quantity matters. No point of having 200 NGAD

[@kwonekstrom2138]

@@smithnwesson990Ukraine has shown us that quantity is necessary when you lack quality. 🤷🏻‍♂️ The US typically uses expensive platforms to drop cheap munitions such as JDAM and SDB.

[@davidwalker9035]

The Air Force wants air platforms that are survivable in hotly contested areas. They don't want to lose pilots. They want invincibility.

[@Youtubeuser1aa]

@@smithnwesson990so you’d want 5000 planes shot down? Imma assume you realize we don’t have that many pilots.

[@45superman]

Fantastic video, as always, Alex. I've lost count of the number of times I've watched your video (and read the Sanboxx News article) about GE's project to combine a turbofan with a dual-mode ramjet, with a rotation detonation (both for the highest speed and efficiency mode for the scramjet, and for the turbofan's afterburner, in order to bridge the velocity range gap between turbofans and ramjets), for speeds potentially in the neighborhood of Mach 10. In fact, inspired by that, I was digging for whatever else I could find about rotation detonation combustion engines, and found something about a potentially even MORE "out-there" technology: oblique wave detonation engines, with thermal efficiency approaching 100%, and a top speed potential of up to Mach 17(!). Do you think there is anything to that, and if so, do you think there would be (potentially, and VERY eventually) a path to combining a FOURTH mode (oblique wave detonation) into something like GE's TBCC/dual-mode ramjet with rotation detonation combustion engine, for an airbreathing, reusable aircraft that can operate from a runway, and yet reach speeds well in excess of Mach 15?

[@machdaddy6451]

I wonder what it would be like to release a weapon at hypersonic speeds?

[@SandboxxApp]

My assessment? Really hard. LM did it in the ‘60s at speeds above Mach 3 with the YF-12, and I’ve spoken to AFRL researchers who said it was a nut they had a few different ways of cracking (but they offered no further details).

[@kathrynck]

@@SandboxxApp You can drop something out at mach 3, but you'd want it to stay inside the shock-cone until it's well clear of the aircraft. The real problem with that is smaller shock cones coming off of the bay doors, as well as the released weapon itself (even before it lights an engine). It can get complicated, and would need a lot more modeling & wind tunnel testing than a lower speed deployment would. Rear-ejection is the most sound approach I would think. Avoids most of the problems.

[@danfreeman9079]

Aft facing torpedo tubes.

[@nilsandresen9912]

@@kathrynck literally super sonic planes shitting bombs and missles onto adversaries

[@teaser6089]

@@kathrynck Yeah some sort of internal magazine for the weapons and one or two ejection ports facing the rear could do the job. Wouldn't be very practical in the conventional format of a fighter(then again fighters have no need nor reason to fly at hypersonic speeds during air to air combat anyways). But for the strike role you have a bit more real estate to work with so it's possible yeah.

[@ToxicNets]

I’d like to see some alien topics covered… so tech so exotic it’s currently unbelievable with modern KNOWN human tech. Longtime viewer here.

[@almaxie342]

Boeing is working on a top secret plane. It is made of paper mache and match sticks. They had to cut costs to elevate share price.

[@MultiverseJoe]

It has been canceled Maxie because fire danger.😅

[@kickin37404]

Killer video! I feel your inspiration watching this content!

[@pauljs75]

The SR-71 wouldn't have been retired without a replacement already lined up. (Satellites are too predictable to replace what it does.)

[@Youtubeuser1aa]

Satellite can move

[@hint0122]

​@KZbinuser1aa not very often, and they need to have to be refueled

[@Youtubeuser1aa]

@@hint0122 that’s what you think

[@hint0122]

@@KZbinuser1aa oh really? How much do you know about satellites?

[@Youtubeuser1aa]

@@hint0122 🤫

[@hawkshadowoseanacy5171]

A side question. Modern MBTs are moving to 6" main guns. I think much of this is due to more impressive armor. The A10 used a 30mm GAU 8 at upto 4000 r/s. This is touted as a tank killing weapon system. If these 30mm rounds can be effective against modern MBTs, why aren't these guns bruised from armored vehicles for tank defense or offense?

[@praski149]

Late teens they built a demonstrator and made skyquakes over San Diego, made the Darkstar look almost just like it in the Top Gun Movie, and now it's in production. Some black project. More like dark gray.

[@willpugh8865]

Lockheed Martin: we’re building something, but you’ll never be able to figure it out 😝 Alex : here is a 30 min video on how and where your building the sR72 Lockheed Martin : …..get that guys address

[@MrAlliecaulfield]

First class content brother

[@pokerpariah]

I’m willing to bet it’s already operational for the past two decades.

[@rtyrsson]

It is always a pleasure, Mr. Hollings, to watch your show. I have a couple things... First: If you keep this up the DoD or other governmental organs will need to put you on the payroll, lest you have an untimely heart attack like the much-mourned Tom Clancy. Except that you do not often delve into the speculative as you did today. Secondly: You mention the F-104 Starfighter as one of Lockheed's forays into fighter aircraft development and production. I am not certain that this was a very positive reference, given the bribery scandals that wounded the company most deeply; and then there are the issue with that "lawn dart" or "widow-maker." I recall the Luftwaffe, in particular, had quite serious issues with it. Nonetheless, this was fantastic and I do not see it as you delving into "conspiracy theory" but rather looking into an aircraft known to be under study and/or development and then the entire matter goes dark. I applaud your curiosity. All that said, being a former ADA soldier myself, I would like to see some investigation and expose into air defense systems coming up and their possible or proposed capabilities. If you have covered these, I may have missed them from before I subscribed.

[@deusexaethera]

I bet the "SR" 72 is actually a human piloted hypersonic bomber to rapidly enter theater, deliver conventional smart munitions, and rapidly exit theater again. That way there's a human with eyes on the target making the decisions about targeting and payload deployment, rather than relying on an onboard targeting computer that hasn't been able to uplink to home base since it was launched due to the radio interference caused by hypersonic disruption of the atmosphere around the vehicle.

[@azaharis]

Love the multiple company competition working on both similar and unique engine types. Im confident that development and production rates will shorten due to better software, materials and automation. Wild times we live in.