America's SR-72 Darkstar is More than a Spy Plane

[@Taskandpurpose]

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[@rocko7711]

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[@firmfire2385]

I know you do the changing thumbnail to see which gets clicked on more, I clicked on the "spy bomber?" But I really wanted to click the "warheads on forheads" but was busy ATM 🤣🤣

[@JimmyRollins-f5m]

The 🎉❤

[@knowahnosenothing4862]

Look like you got the sniffles old mate.

[@cjdoyle5985]

Instead of spending So much money developing new planes why don't we Try and make more so it might cost less per plane

[@gawainethefirst]

I’m glad they had a back up. I was kind of worried when Maverick blew up the first one.

[@TheKnaeckebrot]

@@WhiteWolf65 now imagine the time-to-target from Bases in Japan or the Philippines ... even Diego Garcia ;)

[@TheKnaeckebrot]

@WhiteWolf65 ah damn I almost forgot Guam. But then again, Garcia is probably the #1 Base for Targets in Iran if needed, while Guam fits best for China. Maybe Japan is too close even considering the Time to get to altitude & speed 🤔

[@jotrutch]

they should let DARYL fly it, he's pretty good pilot

[@vonmajor]

@@TheKnaeckebrotconsidering that closer is more probable in terms of being heavily damaged or destroyed by the Chinese early in a conflict.

[@BaigZehe-p8s]

Same here! It was such a tense moment when Maverick took out the first one-I was on the edge of my seat. Having a backup really upped the stakes and kept the adrenaline pumping. It’s moments like that which make the whole sequence unforgettable. You can’t help but appreciate how they balanced the suspense and action so perfectly!

[@M.A-k6u]

"Please stop sir... I can only huah so hard."

[@Anthonyc301]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@V3racious3]

Superhomo.

[@J.A.Smith2397]

Hooah

[@rcajavus8141]

@TaskandPurpose since Trump election you forgot Ukraine exists? and beard you are comedy

[@jamesa7506]

That's why real men just say "Rah". Go Marines!

[@sno7599]

i'm fully convinced skunkworks is what happens when you give engineers free acces to any kind of drug they want

[@laststand6420]

It's what happens when the Government asks for one with "everything", then writes a truly blank check.

[@Omensecurity]

Giving engineers unlimited power and money and then telling them you want something that gets rid of your enemies

[@mrvwbug4423]

US military: "here's a completely improbable idea straight out of sci fi, and here's a blank check, can you make this happen?" Sunk Works: 2 years later: "here ya go"

[@SlermmMcderm]

And I , as an American tax payer don’t mind that 😂

[@johno1544]

The drug is virtually unlimited black budget cash

[@adamtedder1012]

I know an old lady who used to work on the sr71 she then went on to work on the shuttle. She's elderly now to show you perspective on the timeline. She's got great grandkids now.

[@jasonearls5985]

50 is Elderly onset 70 is Old without doubt 35 is middle age onset (lived it up)

[@Babytiguer]

The SR-71 model on my desk is now getting a little bro😎

[@smgdfcmfah]

With teeth!

[@2kaza]

Same!! 😂😂🎉🎉

[@Universal_Architect]

Can you buy me one?

[@mrman5666]

you know the Sr-72 is unable to hit mach 10 and can only go like mach 4 or 5 before killing the pliot of g forces

[@jacobdionne4334]

@@mrman5666hence why it’s unmanned….

[@mawnkey]

"Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy’s unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions." - Sun Tzu Speed has always been one of the most important factors in war.

[@CyberUtilia]

time is a dimension

[@mfallen2023]

But man is it going to uber-expensive! I kind of wonder if the point of leaking the existence/basic capabilities of the project was to "USSR" China/PLA, hoping they'd spend their way into bankruptcy trying to catch up.

[@mawnkey]

@@mfallen2023 The SR-71 program cost around half a billion a year to run. Consider inflation and really this doesn't sound much more expensive. Not to mention the number of lives and resources having its capabilities might save.

[@AviationJeremy]

It’s funny how 2.5 millennia later, the fundamental principles of warfare chronicled by Sun Tzu are still entirely relevant.

[@tango_uniform]

Speed is one of three things pilots never have enough of, the other two being altitude and fuel.

[@CorundumDevil]

China: "Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN--"

[@ELNIPLO]

The note: "Gappy said..."

[@cacogenicist]

Steal those designs, STEAL those designs!

[@viktornicht260]

In five years China will reveal the "CR-72" and then claim its better than the SR72 in everything

[@tuckerkane8417]

China first 6th gen fighter jet. US have fallen behind the white emperor

[@CodyChepa88]

Steal steal is what you mean

[@johnenglish6130]

Thanks for adopting the smoother editing style. I have a headache from writing my PhD thesis and this is the only video in my feed that isn't aggravating it.

[@ClaireNova-x5r]

Go touch some grass

[@ExodusC]

Probably unpopular opinion, but I really, really hate the stock video footage with voice over. Would much rather watch a talking head than having an editor lazily search an image for every keyword that's said and plaster that on screen for two seconds.

[@Chiller11]

Good luck with your defense.

[@johnenglish6130]

@Chiller11 Thanks!

[@Taskandpurpose]

Michael crushed it !

[@MrBillsfishin]

My Dad retired from Skunk Works and worked on the Prototype F22 and F35's. I so wish he was still alive to discuss this. I can tell you that for the last year or so here in Palmdale something has been flying late at night that is very, very loud and only at night. Could be a couple different planes like the B21 and/ or the SR72.

[@billdurham8477]

Or the long awaited Aurora.

[@FastPaull]

Well, from the from the videos i've seen, i don't think the B21 is super loud as it doesn't have afterburners.

[@DavePryor302]

Get some cheap night vision or thermal and find out

[@MrBillsfishin]

@DavePryor302 maybe someday.

[@amarissimus29]

There's no way to communicate to someone who hasn't experienced it exactly what is meant by loud here. It goes well beyond the cochlea. They don't put mufflers on prototypes.

[@amy8245]

I used to work for a uniform and linen rental company that serviced Lockheed and Boeing buildings in Southern California, required a crazy background check and took forever to be approved but was able to get into some incredible areas and see some really cool processes they use to develop certain things. Such an amazing opportunity to be in such an incredible place place

[@palohagara105]

But you would not tell us? 😮

[@wursteh5728]

Why was this stuff so cool? Is there any difference between how they operate and everywhere else?

[@thogren]

Scramjets on the SR-72 and on its payloads. Double the hypersonic fun!

[@Slumberrr]

Fun for the whole family!

[@thogren]

@@Slumberrr 🤣

[@basic9254]

[@joshschneider9766]

Combined cycle drives. Google them you will enjoy that rabbit hole.

[@rcajavus8141]

thing hs +-3 degree vertical stability, good luck launching missiles with such margines. when they tested drone they lost a pilot

[@8vI]

Talking about US military capability is a part of the US deterrence strategy. They would not tell us for any other reason.

[@conormcmenemie5126]

People who start fights only do so because they have convinced themselves that they have a winning advantage. It is better to make it known before hand that your dad is bigger then their dad.

[@Kinzarr4ever]

Spot on. Deterrence only works if the party or parties you're trying to deter are convinced they should be worried about what you can do.

[@timweaver7826]

They could also be lying to divert from something else and/or make them spend time and money chasing something they don't need to.

[@yupyup4209]

​@@timweaver7826 Can be a dangerous game though. The Soviets hyped up their MiG-25 too much (even though it was amazing) which motivated the US to make stuff that was even better

[@conormcmenemie5126]

@@yupyup4209 There was also that casual line at a Red Square parade when a US official asked his soviet counterpart if the USSR made many of the truck mounted ICBMs that was just passing. The famous response of the Russian was 'we make them like sausages'. Thus the USA massivley ramped up it's military budget, yet the actual rocket on the truck was empty and welded to the chassis to stop it falling off.

[@stealthassasin1day291]

You know a project is expensive when there is no actual budget but will be worth every penny.

[@FRANKBOOTH777]

I think it's strange that people will cringe at the sound of 1 Billion dollars for a cutting edge weapon platform budget yet they will just pass out 10's of billions to Ukraine or whoever for whatever and people don't bat an eye. I'm with you, worth every penny!!

[@francisjohnoca5710]

​@@FRANKBOOTH777Russia paid for it.

[@evanfinch4987]

they dont publish the budget because it demonstrates capability/tech level

[@irrelevantfish1978]

@@FRANKBOOTH777 I hate to argue with you, comrade, but that sounds very much like the reasoning of an American woman that thinks that if her soft, imperialist boyfriend is willing to spend $2k for a computer, he should be fine with her spending $500 for another pair of heels.

[@doug-core8850]

Rather see that money build a new whole fleet arm of F-14's haha

[@unclebuzz6913]

I live in the high desert of California,about 50 miles from Palmdale and the Skunk Works.. I believe "When they acknowledge Sr72 "it will be already have been in action for at least a decade ,and a better weapon system will be already in testing...At least that has been my old ass knowledge of how our classified military weapons operations work...I remember working in Krammer Junction and seeing a B2 escorted by a F117,it looked like a sparrow chasing a hawk..That was in the 80s...Also I lived in Helendale,Where there is a Lockheed Radar Cross section facility where back in the 80s strange shtuff was happening....(early 2000s also) So when they say it is in action and declassifys it,it is already out dated....😂😂😂 Thank You for your service youngman . God Bless you and your loved ones (KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK)

[@Larry-k2t]

Great video & content. As a military retiree I’m never shocked by what new platforms we eventually see or know of. I am fascinated more by what they are working on or have we may never see until it is needed. Thanks for this one!

[@zoltanmarbland5706]

“Blackbird singing in the dead of night, all your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise”

[@doylewillis9587]

😂😂😂😂

[@PresidentElectA1-Abrams]

OOOH CATCHY THIS WOULD MAKE GREAT SONG LYRICS

[@minuteman2547]

Enough already with the damn beatles. They were the 60"s version of blackeyed peas.

[@aaronorr5586]

For Shame using a rock group's lyrics to promote the concept of an Air to surface dominance jet. /S 🤣

[@dannnmerkle7930]

Glad I'm not the only one that had this pop into my head.

[@T.R.75]

you only tell your enemies about your "secret" projects if you want your enemies to spend money/resources trying to counter your "secret" projects. meanwhile your actual secret projects that are 10-20 years ahead of what your enemies are now trying to counter go ahead quietly while the enemy wastes money.

[@chunkblaster]

Id say this is correct if we make the next logical assumption that an aircraft with similar capabilities *was* flying 10-20 years ago in the form of Project Aurora

[@devincorns409]

That’s basically how we created the F15

[@reidboggs4344]

I believe we have treaties that require us to divulge these now. That’s the reason the B-21 reveal was so public.

[@slavj]

You also tell them that, so that when they do start developing these next generation weapons, you can go back to your govt. and point and ask for more money and work to develop the next generation to always stay ahead. Basically, you are ensuring more work for yourself in the future.

[@chunkblaster]

@@slavj appropriately cynical, I agree

[@scottthompson8946]

Well done, Grunt! I'm a 33 year Aviator (Black Hawk, then a pisspot full of type ratings including the B767) and aviation enthusiast. Rarely, do I see an aviation report that doesn't leave me screaming at the TV! But, in this case you did a really good job getting shit right. With that said, my education ends with traditional jet & turbo fan engines and I know very little about SCRAM jets, but I can vouch for all your traditional engine reporting. HOO-A!!

[@BoomerKeith1]

I think the number of people that fully understand the details and inner workings of the SCRAMJET are small in number. 😂

[@flycatchful]

Scott, your playlist shows no mention of aviation related topics. I find your post total BS.

[@Fjdjfjsz92938]

@@flycatchfulYou can learn about aviation in other ways than watching KZbin videos and a playlist isnt a good way to even see if someone watched aviation content

[@flycatchful]

@@Fjdjfjsz92938 Of course you can and that is a given. I personally follow aviation related podcasters and their sites follow other related sites. Like I posted the individual who claims he is an aviator leaves a lot to be desired. If he fails to reply than I'll be vindicated.

[@Fleshox19-uz3qt]

​@@BoomerKeith1And none of them are Chinese.

[@Apexsilverevo]

My ex-wife’s uncle was a SR-71 pilot and what he was able to share was in it self mind blowing 🤯 Then for about 10 years, one of my neighbors was an engineer for Skunk Works and again, just what he was able to share was even more mind blowing 😂. I’ve always been an aviation fan going to every air show near me and got to see the SR-71 fly back in its glory days. Damn I miss it haha!

[@ShotgunDexter]

I agree. If you look at the timeline when the world learned of the F117, it was already 10 years old, at least.

[@davidgreenwood6029]

@@baronvonslambert sr71 might be a better comparison. It was kept secret after it was actually in service.

[@andrewtaylor940]

And amazingly almost nobody is noticing that the F-35 just penetrated extremely hostile Iranian airspace to wipe out Iran’s nuclear program. Those were Israeli F-35’s. The US F-35C also just entered combat for the first time wiping out a number of Houthi missile launch sites.

[@mfallen2023]

@@andrewtaylor940 I thought Israel claimed they were 15's and 16's? Or was that just for the other targets they admitted to hitting immediately afterward?

[@andrewtaylor940]

@ Yeah, Israel did not directly say which assets were used to hit the nuke facility. But given how deep and well protected it was, the assumption is a combination of stealth and cruise missiles. I believe Israel uses their newer model F-15’s in much the same way the US is starting to. One of their roles is to act as “Missile Trucks” for the F-35’s targeting networked systems.

[@WarPigstheHun]

​@@baronvonslambertit's crazy how a popular novelist turned into a multi million dollar game title. Anything with Tom Clancy's on it really.

[@lovelessissimo]

I used to live in Palmdale until 2014. At night, we would sometimes hear some wild sounding aircraft flying around.

[@jasoncarpenter1974]

Well if it's not an alien. It's a SR-72 My friend 💪🇺🇸

[@inflationRefugee]

I live there now. At least hear them testing something 2-3 times a week.

[@brett9382]

Similar situation. I lived near the point mugu navy (missle testing) base until 2021. I got good at being able to tell the jets they would fly out there and occasionally would hear something definitely different being flown at night. Saw the f117 flying around a few times too (back when they were supposed to be retired).

[@jakobofcincy]

shit I live in southern Ohio and have seen some rather odd shit flying at night, I won't give details since this ain't war thunder but lets just say I wouldn't be surprised if there is a black site or some type of top secret testing ground nearby...

[@erikwigelandiestad2270]

Ultimate power flex - testing your stealth stuff jetting around in California airspace ❤

[@cobannie]

Not many people remember that even the SR-71 once had a variant built called the YF-12 as a FIGHTER designed to test new look-down-shoot-down missile technologies in the 70’s-80’s. When Reagan was fighting to push the B-1 Lancer bomber development across the finish line - at the same time we had the F-117, and the B-2 already in development - the YF-12 proved that the B1 Lancer would be obsolete before it ever reached production. The capability of shooting down even supersonic low-altitude bombers was done with great ease & accuracy… YF-12 proved that we could fire missiles from the SR-71 long ago. The SR-72 would just be taking this to a new level of capability. As an investor in L-M, I hope we buy lots of them!

[@notachair4757]

Don't forget the XB-70 and it's Pyre Wacket!

[@johno1544]

Yeah they messed around with a bunch of variants . There was a recon drone launcher version that shared a similar engine that could have easily been a super sonic nuclear cruise missile

[@Cowboycomando54]

The long range missile targeting system and computers for the YF-12 were repurposed and used on the F-14.

[@WarPigstheHun]

What's ironic is any company in the military industrial complex isn't even that profitable. All the companies combined make less than Proctor & Gamble does in a year, the company that makes diapers. We invest in the military industrial complex because we have faith in our government. At least, that's my reason why. If the world has weapons, I'd rather be the wolf than the lamb.

[@ORLY911]

I would say the B1 still wouldnt be obsolete, the Yf12 cant carry nearly the payload a B1 can, nor operate at lower altitudes, which the B1 excels in.

[@petersanderson8307]

Thanks!

[@stevenpace892]

The simplest and most common kinetic weapon is a chunk of lead known as a bullet. Kinetic energy is proportional to velocity squared; so something going really fast unleashes a lot of energy.

[@andrewferguson6901]

Thank, this comment just helped me earn my masters degree in aerospace kinematics

[@Delner-f8h]

Ever read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein? The moon gets into a fight with Earth, and they decide to throw rocks at them... big rocks going very fast!

[@t_k_blitz4837]

When the airframe and plumbing of the predecessor were made to account for severe thermal expansion from the sheer hotness of speed, I don’t think chilling out is on the books!

[@irrelevantfish1978]

Oh, it will have to do a _lot_ of chilling out. Parts of the X-15's skin had to be made of a superalloy used in jet engine turbine blades, and it only spent a few seconds at Mach 6. I don't see how sustained flight at that speed would be possible without actively cooling critical areas like the nose and leading edge.

[@alexmin4752]

I'm really curious how is it supposed to not melt by air friction. It would have to fly in space.

[@lil__shmeat]

China: "Hey America, we just debuted our new J-35. Are you scared yet?" US: **staring at the latest iteration of incomprehensible stealth tech** "Yeah, I saw, cute copy, kid"

[@DrDeuteron]

more like: "Are batteries included?"

[@rh906]

J-20 > F22 J-35 > F35 The Pandas do love originality.

[@CallsignMower_Aviation]

@@rh906HA, j-20 over the F-22 is hilarious, however the j-20 at best has a higher top speed than the 22 other than that F-22 is better

[@justintime41776]

If they're gonna copy something they could at least make it better. They made it worse.

[@laskey2175]

Imitation without understanding is applied ignorance.

[@jimkeats891]

If Cappy is truly "an average infantryman"...that would partly explain why the US military is so good! Great video!!!

[@rtyrsson]

I have come to the conclusion that Cappy is a very intelligent guy and definitely above-average in general.

[@amstonger]

That's sooo fking true.... That's why you Yanks can't abondon us here in Europe cuz we gonna get mad and do crazy things to you yanks

[@MM22966]

Because of the way the US military funds a recruit's school money through various programs, you will find a startling number of college graduates or partial college educated men in combat roles.

[@ROCKSTARVEGA]

@@rtyrssonfr def above a general infantry he has hella awareness

[@granatmof]

What people don't realize is infantry squad leader is actually a good platform to getting into and Ivy league college. No joke. Basically if you've demonstrated ability to lead under fire, and have all the other awards and stuff, you can go let into the ivy leagues, especially if you can get like a letter of recommendation from a senior officer.

[@Wanderlust2430]

Ace combat: "look at this experimental scifi plane with lasers and railguns!" Skunk works: WHO WAS POSTING ON THE FORUMS!?

[@UNSCPILOT]

If they could find a way to hide it, I wouldn't put it past the USAF trying to build an Arsenal Bird, it's not like they haven't investigated airborne super-carriers before

[@spc1481]

I was expecting references to "Command and Conquer: Generals" and "Top Gun: Maverick", not disappointed. XD

[@NET-POSITIVE]

My family has 3 generations and over 100 yrs of combined NASA and Lockheed/Skunkworks) experience. I am damn proud of our contributions to Areospace and Defense and to this day we still build these systems.

[@ROCKSTARVEGA]

Can you build a mini one for me??

[@Zer0_Cool69]

Hey ever hear anything about back engineering non terrestrial Aircraft

[@albertoalmeida3424]

And I'm the Pope.

[@Kevin-bl6lg]

Putin will be so proud about the joint programme he gets from his lackey Donald Trump

[@harbl99]

_Areospace_ Secret Martian technology confirmed!

[@gmichaloski3367]

4:04 I always appreciate a good Command & Conquer reference

[@V3racious3]

China has big Generals!

[@bagochips834]

I think Lockheed being relatively loose lipped about this at first was potentially a ploy to bait the other superpowers into revealing their hypersonic capabilities and drum up sales.

[@tango_uniform]

Reagan did the same thing with "Star Wars". There were short videos on the news of craft hovering with the use of Rocketdyne thrusters to scare the Reds.

[@NaqrSeranvis]

Or it may have caused these other superpowers to initiate development of hypersonic weapon systems in the first place. And the site was taken down once somebody realized these powers have taken SR-72 seriously... just not in the way US officials hoped for.

[@jmjones7897]

Naw. We're not selling this to anyone else

[@dirtypure2023]

​@@NaqrSeranvis You only bait an adversary to tip their hand when you already have a pretty good idea what they're working on.

[@NaqrSeranvis]

​@@dirtypure2023 You assume I agreed that it was a bait. In my opinion, it was a show of force. A move to intimidate rivals, which may have inadvertently caused them to reevaluate their position and wake up. I hope I am wrong about the purpose of the disclosure, but if I'm not, encouraging your rivals to innovate is a bad strategy.

[@jum5238]

At that speed, how do you launch a missile? Getting it outside the aircraft's envelope has to be one heck of an engineering miracle. Imagine opening a door at that speed, alone, much less extending something outside and launching it.

[@chronic_adventure]

Hell yea, shout out to the screen cap of the c&c aurora bomber. “Radar won’t pick us up”

[@Chooie6]

I think the declassified mission reports are gonna be super interesting when we read them in like 50 years or whatever

[@glhmedic]

Or on the warthunder forums.

[@PrograError]

We'd be holding sticks for support...

[@ollanius_papyrus80]

Stealth craft in the 20th century: “I stay undetected by utilizing very deliberate shaping of the hull and a radar-absorbant coating.” Stealth craft in the 21st century: [queueing up Initial D music] “I paid for the whole speedometer, I’m going to use the whole speedometer.”

[@vz6235]

Love the drunk gopnik who just woke up from a slumber look.

[@dannnmerkle7930]

For real, no sarcasm. Relatable lol

[@lawrencefrost9063]

..Did you just mention the Aurora bomber from Command & Conquer Generals? I love this channel.

[@jima1135]

That clip gave me flashbacks to my Airforce General's Aurora/Raptor fleet being queued up to go destroy a superweapon that was about to destroy my base. The laser point defenses were *chef's kiss* And the stealth Comanches were either a constant nuisance or devastating if you ignored them. Damn, I loved that game

[@davidberry8463]

I'm just a simple engineer/ engineering teacher. My recently deceased uncle was a member of the 1129th SAS (his articles were the the U2, A12, and SR-71). He would give you the raised eyebrow of satisfaction. Then he would say, "I can't believe this kind of information is available to the general public."

[@celestialsatheist1535]

Russia, Iran, china: we have hypersonic missiles US of frickin A : that's cute

[@Lord_Foxy13]

The US just looking at them like "sure you do kids"

[@Provision600]

That would definitely be an American response out of arrogance because when the war is over they just sail/fly back home.

[@reflexboxer2ndlt807]

US has a lot of hypersonic missiles too. Even faster actually. Recently added to the arsenal. The Mako missile is insane.

[@IsaiahChapter53isAboutJesus]

​@Provision600 And they forget that they were psychologically manipulated to support, and even volunteer for, the war. They'll suffer from hooah syndrome the exact same way Leftists suffer from Trump derandment syndrome. Operation Mockingbird.

[@celestialsatheist1535]

@@reflexboxer2ndlt807 yep . Strangely literally nobody talks about that

[@isaiahwilliams5988]

Last time I came this early I got court martialed

[@nickcollins1528]

I came pulling my pants down last night

[@conormcmenemie5126]

too much detail - some things best left unsaid

[@davonmulder8458]

Huh!?

[@DrDeuteron]

dishonorable discharge, or just premature?

[@johnnycaps1]

Hmmm..... Your CO was a woman?

[@TheStickinator]

I can't wrap my head around how this thing going that fast can open a door and deploy it's wrapon without getting ripped apart.

[@mennol3885]

The doors probably fold inwards. I think they use a lot of magic and wind tunnel testing.

[@FlyMernyFly]

That's a great point. Maybe they'll eject the weapon from the rear like the North American A-5 Vigilante to avoid exposing structurally sensitive surfaces to the slipstream chaos

[@Alacrity-reserved]

It lobs itself into space.

[@kameronjones7139]

​@@FlyMernyFlythat will probably be the most likely way

[@handroids1981]

@@FlyMernyFly Thank you, I've been trying to figure that out.

[@RobR4455]

Thanks!

[@SamplePerspectiveImporta-hq3ip]

I live like 5 min from Palmdale. Crazy to me that this insane tech is basically being built in my backyard.

[@GripsCardMarket]

“Any man can beat his meat, but only a true warrior defeat it." -Sun Tzu, The Art of War

[@DRLongSchlong671]

Adidas tracksuit looking fresh bro

[@Chiller11]

Gopnik Nouveau.

[@anotherbacklog]

Gopnik Cappy

[@randybobandy9828]

Looking very mobster

[@DRLongSchlong671]

Cheeki breeki mode

[@Chiller11]

Gopnik nouveau

[@MrSquigglies]

China and Russia: we have hypersonic missiles :P USA: yeah yeah, we've put hypersonic missiles on our hypersonic */planes/*

[@tluangasailo3663]

and China and Russia cant figure out air launch hypersonic missile, that kinzhal is merely ballistic missile

[@Tehn00bA]

​@@tluangasailo3663idk about china but russia definetly has them figured out. Remember the shopping mall in ukraine that was one shot by one because it was housing weapons?

[@tluangasailo3663]

@@Tehn00bA I said kinzhal is merely ballistic missile

[@kameronjones7139]

​@@Tehn00bAthis reads like Russian propaganda

[@Hachiae]

@@Tehn00bA found the propaganda bot

[@jackryan444]

Tbf, if the flyboys can go Mach 6, they might as well sleep somewhere nice, cause they can go anywhere and be back by dinner.

[@t-mac1236]

That’s the coolest looking plane I ever seen. Gives me chills knowing just how much we dominate the skies. Makes me shiver knowing that we probably have much more advanced stuff the public doesn’t know another . Makes me come knowing we might have alien tech

[@peteford7258]

The original SR-71 was not strategic reconnaissance, it was strike reconnaissance. If you look back on what was stated in the 70/80s, the SR-71 was able to carry a 1MT nuclear device or a nuclear tipped D-21 on top and drop or launch it at a target from Mach 3.

[@Snipergoat1]

It's first incarnation was the proposed YF-12 a fighter/interceptor that frankly would have been a lousy fighter and interceptors had pretty much gone the way of the dodo. In a rare feat of good judgement the Pentagon retooled all that dandy tech into the recon craft we all know and love today.

[@AnInterestedObserver]

But it never did anything like that.

[@brianjob3018]

FTR, LBJ in '64 announced only the reconnaissance role. Could you point us to a source that talks about the strike version?

[@T-Add]

I always had a crazy thought that when they made the Blackbird that they also made a weaponized version and kept it a secret. I guess I'm not crazy.

[@rtyrsson]

The D-21 drone the SR-71 had would have made a great early (and fast) cruise missile. I can't believe that it wasn't considered or built at the time.

[@conormcmenemie5126]

The blackbird flew so hish and fast over hostile terretory that even if it did have a weapons bay, it did not have the means to reliably drop a weapon on target - unless it was one of those with a 10 mile blast radius.

[@laststand6420]

I think we can all agree that not strapping some sort of weapon to it would have been genuinely unamerican.

[@rtyrsson]

@@laststand6420 Agreed!

[@conormcmenemie5126]

@@laststand6420 Once there were interceptors and bombers without guns. Photo-recon too. Flying faster than your own bullets might prove a problem too. In general, once you get up to a certian speed, the ability to dogfight or hit a target smaller than an average city becomes a subject for friday nigh bar stool philosophers.

[@NancynMark]

The composite industry is so advanced here in the United States that even the carbon fiber system absorbs radar. That's how advance it is.

[@NancynMark]

Key Prefromance Indicators(KPIs) Lean Manufactuing , Quality Assurance and Control , FOD Programs are Key Making the best top-notch products. The United States of America.

[@theonlydiego1]

so what your saying is there is a potential to have a carbon fiber car that can’t be detected by police radar? Sweet!

[@outsider7658]

Hi Chris and thank's for another video. They are informative, from "the ground view". At 13.07, something, You mentioned: "The moving nosecone". The key word is, moving. That took, if my memory serves, Ben Rich, the "Father of The Cone", about 3 years, to construct! Not to speak of the other parts. From his autobiography, "Skunk Works", which I recommend to read, before going in to the "I am a Believer" mode. He tells the story, and so much more, read it, You get so much info, even for us, "uninitiated". a thought from a serious gearhead and aviation...and so on. a Finn in Diaspora

[@benjaminsmith9823]

Thanks Chris! Love your articles man!

[@willarchambault3776]

Looks like a completely new level of breaking through air defenses. If this is the most powerful option for hitting a target we wouldn't want to take the line down after making just a few like with the F22. A full aircraft carrier of Sr72s could be cool.

[@paulharper5515]

Ah yes, the hypersonic burrito😂

[@paulharper5515]

The sauce is nuclear🥵

[@billynomates920]

the bathroom bomb. a murderous splatter weapon to be sure.

[@28ebdh3udnav]

F 22: would you intercept me? I'd intercept me....

[@jamesa7506]

It puts the hypersonic armaments in the basket!!

[@Cid_1]

The Darkstar looks so freakin cool

[@Sarge-at-Large]

So … the depiction of Tom Cruise pushing Mach6 at the beginning of the new Top Gun movie made legit sense … nice 😎 👍

[@wealllikeitsomilkit4301]

6:17 never thought I'd ever see Pink Guy and the Gang doing the Harlem Shake on a video about the Sr-72 Dark Star 😭

[@ssnydess6787]

The original SR-71 weaponized version was named the YF-12a, which utilized new weapons tecnologies for hyper speed missles since the A/C was faster than any existing missle!

[@conormcmenemie5126]

What was it like for targeting back in the olden days before GPS?

[@anotherbacklog]

I won’t be surprised that the Darkstar in Top Gun Maverick looks exactly like the actual one

[@Jakabre]

Outstanding content - as usual. Thanks!

[@gedog77]

Fascinating. So it’s likely that a hypersonic stealthy and unmanned aircraft is now being built. That ultra responsive ability to reach all the way out and touch someone is very valuable. Equally, real time communication with a “drone” doing Mach 6 in denied or contested air space is non-trivial to say the least.

[@sundragon7703]

It is implied that DARPA/Skunk Works figured out how to deploy a payload at hypersonic velocities. (Note: The D-21 vehicle for the SR-71 was not a very successful pairing.)

[@motourge3061]

Yeah, my question too...

[@MikeInMexico]

Cappy, you can just say ‘no bueno’. As an American here living in Mexico, I don’t use the library much, so directions aren’t needed. Keep up the great work. Saludos from the @mikeinmexico channel.

[@pahtar7189]

The SR--72 with weapons sounds a lot like a reimagined Lockheed YF-12, an interceptor version of the SR-71.

[@ProfessorMAG]

Interceptor version of the A-12, predecessor of the SR-71 (faster too).

[@oreesama4581]

Great content and a tremendous amount of effort. Thanks for the quality of content.❤

[@wagnerrp]

@13:21 The reasoning is very simple. More compression is more better. Just look at your car's engine. Old inefficient engines are ~8:1 compression ratio. Modern engines are ~12:1. Diesels are 20:1-25:1. Very roughly speaking, compression ratio determines temperature ratio, and temperature ratio determines efficiency. Around Mach 3, the ram air pressure from the inlet is delivering comparable compression as the compressor on the gas turbine, making the compressor unnecessary. Above Mach 3, the turbine just gets in the way due to cooling limitations.

[@hatiskalli1954]

next level wild weasel! now imagine anti-icbm hypersonic aircrafts, yes i m talking about ICBM interceptors ;D;D;D

[@rektralph6778]

They finally gave my favorite bird talons 🥲🥲

[@IndependentIvy]

Dark star is crazy name. Well done naming department

[@JeremyAlexander-hd8cx]

What I always think about when I see these things unveiled is what they have that we won't even know about for decades.

[@allendalewilliams5762]

It is so cool being an American. We have the James Webb Telescope. We landed that giant rover on Mars, we landed men on the moon in 1969, SIXTY NINE!!! We took close up pictures of Pluto, we put Musk's car in orbit around the Sun and Mars, a private company snags a rocket that can put a hundred fellow country men on the moon out of the air at the same pad that the ship just took off from. I mean, how cool can one country be?

[@michaels2846]

And yet you still don't understand or implement Metric.

[@allendalewilliams5762]

@@michaels2846 If it where up to me, it would have happened a long time ago.

[@SnackPack913]

Skunk works with nearly unlimited black budget cash would be the most lit place to work ever. The hardest part would be not telling people what cool shit you are working on

[@DtWolfwood]

Why is "where is the library" the only spanish we all remember? lol

[@theonlydiego1]

Libraries are a pretty cool place. They have bathrooms, cafes, and books

[@Sniper_Cat_71]

LOL I was playing CNC Zero Hour yesterday!

[@ryb6463]

What a great video. Literally the 1st time I’ve ever seen this channel - subscribed right away. Bravo!

[@GL-GildedLining]

Great coverage, thank you. This was fascinating.

[@HarryZev]

Very cool video. I was not even certain this was a thing. Thanks for adding the legitimacy. I am glad the SR71 has a successor.

[@captainsalty9022]

These fabulously fast aircraft will stimulate the further development of laser weapons. Because speed of light is hard to out run.

[@brunsy1990]

'agile at hypersonic speeds' that in itself gives an excellent reason for the craft to be unmanned. A flesh and blood pilot has been the limiting factor in aircraft performance since the jet age hit its stride. And we've already shown the capability to harden electronics to G forces that would turn a human being into soup.

[@LegendaryCollektor]

The f22 had govenors installed because it could literally kill the pilot in G's it could yoink. It is inevitable that aircraft would replace humans. In 2008? No, because computers then couldnt react fast enough. 2024? Yea......thats different.

[@matchesburn]

Funnily enough, speed was the first concept of stealth and it's one of the primary reasons the SR-71 was to be so fast. Earlier radar at that time did not have much in the way of pitch up scanning. And it scanned much more slowly. With an SR-71 doing full speed, it could enter a radar's detection range and be over the top of the radar's pitch angle (thus being very difficult to detect) before it the radar could make a full rotation.

[@mikaellavoie6811]

After seeing a lot of your videos that to me were straight western propaganda, I'm pleased to see this one that is way more straight to the facts, down to earth without pushing any narrative. I liked it! Even if I prefer learning the obscure details of these technologies, I loved the way you vulgarized them in a very neutral way. Cheers!

[@jimbochops]

I shit yee not, I've been looking at and researching the SR-72 all day (for some reason it plopped itself in my head) - then I opened KZbin and this is the first video I saw... ...the Feds are reading my mind, boys - I'm cooked ☠️

[@Crowfist]

Close they are reading your google searches

[@BdestroyingU]

Lol. Same here. Last night I randomly got curious and started watching a bunch of videos on it from months and years ago. I get on today and this is top of my feed

[@handroids1981]

Don't let them read your naughty thoughts!!

[@IC3XR]

I'm Aussie.. but that was this most wildly *AMERICAN* thing I've ever heard: the same team working on a real Hypersonic plane then also building a prop of said plane for a movie, all as an unsubtle nod to China and Russia that the U.S aint F***in around 🤣 Best ally ever fr

[@Shhaddow]

No 🧢

[@truestiltskin]

Another thing people don't think about if we're selling stuff to our allies it's because we have nicer toys and they can play with our hand me downs.

[@txaggiecop90]

Is there a correlation between more and more UAP object sightings and development time line for the Skunkwork projects?

[@Davidiscrazy]

Looking back onto this and thinking about about the SR-71. This is a VERY logical choice with today’s tech. Only makes you wonder what other Cold War tech can be improved upon with modern tech. Also think of the navy capabilities of this! Imagine being able to sink ships from anywhere in the world! Literally so close to orbital cannon

[@slate8409]

..... so we're basically going back to the F-15 methodology? "If you can't sneak, you run"? More things change the more they stay the same, I guess.

[@cubed0724]

Nah the US has both stealth and speed. The US at this point isn't just trying to beat the game, but to speed run it.

[@neztok33]

How's this thing open a weapons bay without the doors getting yeeted backwards at 6 times the speed of sound?

[@conormcmenemie5126]

@@mariaortizmartinez3849 If this puppy is going to be at your door in 1 hour, its altitude may be such that drag and buffeting are not such huge issues.

[@DoubleG-l3b]

all that cold war tech and research, still paying dividends

[@e.wilson2728]

I just had a seriously wicked thought.. SR-72 with energy based weapons. Super pew pew.. thanks for the content ✌️

[@Kjell777Iverson]

I read that the SR-72 is intended to have both manned and unmanned options. Not sure how accurate that information is, but it would make sense to be able to play both cards.

[@danielbrown9368]

As an Aerospace Engineering student in 1997, we were learning about scramjets, but in the context of the technology not being fully debugged yet, but we knew how to do the big pieces. The big sticking point at that time was how to introduce the fuel into the airflow. Having it mix was an issue being worked on. All that said, firing a missile at Mach 6 could be a massive no go. No idea if thye figured that out yet or if they just want a spyplane.

[@devinnall2284]

Do they even need to fire it? The plane is already moving at Mach 6 they just need to know when to drop it.

[@gcwyatt]

How, in the name of Kelly Johnson, do you open a weapon bay door at mach 6 without ripping it off, and then release a weapon into mach 6 slipstream without Bad Things happening? On second thought, don't tell me. Pooh is reading.

[@indianajones4321]

Bruh “warheads on foreheads” 🤣

[@busterbeagle2167]

86 the dinosaurs. As someone that worked in the kitchen for 25 years that's hilarious. Well done cap.

[@olliemorgan9735]

Chris, great reel. Thanx.