This Plane "doesn't exist" - SR-75 Penetrator

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[@FoundAndExplained]

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[@pyeitme508]

Lol 😆

[@CallsignAegis]

I will think about it

[@jerielsamuel8015]

Happy Birthday Nick

[@edwardfletcher7790]

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

[@trainanimator8150]

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

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

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

[@dextermorgan1]

Think Darkstar from Top gun. 😉

[@giovannibonifati]

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

[@4dbullshitpatroll6]

transgender woke super soldiers who are always offended.

[@weregarurumon3202]

Satellites

[@mikemorris3608]

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

[@Chris-ok4zo]

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

[@MrGrandure]

The length and the strength is for the ladies

[@LIONGOD]

all in the name of scifi

[@adrianellis4497]

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

[@UncleRayRayGarageEmporium]

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

[@thedaredevil1907]

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

[@aaronpetzel4645]

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

[@philipchesley9615]

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

[@keirfarnum6811]

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

[@MrNEOANDY]

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

[@TimTheInspector]

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

[@nickabel8279]

This is def just a gov plant

[@_sansvisage]

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

[@flechette3782]

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

[@UnitSe7en]

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

[@HOTSHTMAN53]

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

[@HOTSHTMAN53]

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

[@linuxuberuser]

ta da!@@HOTSHTMAN53

[@KeithZim]

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

[@rejectedgaming1019]

Try out some internet archives you would de surprised

[@CASA-dy4vs]

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

[@terryjohns8176]

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

[@Denverian]

true north-east? mag north-east?

[@CallMeByMyMatingName]

​@@Denverianmost likely...

[@terryjohns8176]

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

[@keirfarnum6811]

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

[@iamarizonaball2642]

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

[@egaroadkill8701]

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

[@radiofreealbemuth8540]

Is your friend worried about China beating us?

[@keirfarnum6811]

TR3b? One has to wonder sometimes.

[@ck2994]

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

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

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

[@AURORAREVEALNOW]

The Aurora operated from there.

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Prof Simon Holland has a video about this.

[@FayeClegg]

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

[@DavidMitchell79]

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

[@RallyRacingVideo]

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

[@DFWRailVideos]

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

[@CASA-dy4vs]

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

[@glitchedmatrix55]

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

[@thejdmguru621]

Isn’t it a Pulse Detonation Engine

[@jwaller51]

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

[@badlaamaurukehu]

​@@thejdmguru621Hybrid

[@forbiddenera]

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

[@matthewdavies2057]

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

[@jettack531]

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

[@RUNIFLAVOR76]

That’s Heavy.

[@everypitchcounts4875]

Like Darkhorse

[@ryugakishatu6372]

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

[@martinkasper197]

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

[@josephlannert969]

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

[@keirfarnum6811]

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

[@theeddorian]

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

[@steverogers8163]

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

[@lionemessi]

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

[@FluidKaos]

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

[@soniccdx]

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

[@nathanwilgus529]

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

[@Huxtive]

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

[@WolfeSaber9933]

They are pulse engines.

[@Huxtive]

ik @@WolfeSaber9933

[@shortyyazzie]

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

[@alwynwatson6119]

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

[@WolfeSaber9933]

@@alwynwatson6119 Do you mean detonation?

[@exist]

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

[@thetruenolan6655]

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

[@Mr.Pie93]

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

[@TechXTech91]

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

[@RallyRacingVideo]

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

[@gitupmechavvy2569]

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

[@kdrapertrucker]

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

[@Werrf1]

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

[@thomasblankinship98]

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

[@The_Raven_]

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

[@PeriodicAerospace]

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

[@normmarino7914]

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

[@ibeatyoutubecircumventingy6344]

DARPA and Skunk WOrks are like Hold my Beer!

[@Michael_Michaels]

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

[@agpaok0704]

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

[@charleshopkins3817]

Your English is solid, my guy 💪🏼

[@munozcampos]

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

[@4dbullshitpatroll6]

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

[@xodiaq]

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

[@peterkropko1]

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

[@ianandjohnandmaniandreni9323]

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

[@Schladduppy]

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

[@rustymustard7798]

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

[@captaintoyota3171]

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

[@daTribbleMaker]

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

[@seagie382]

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

[@MACH_CONCORDE]

Looks like a modern SR-71

[@WolfeSaber9933]

Like the Aurora or the SR-72 Darkstar.

[@MACH_CONCORDE]

@@WolfeSaber9933 True

[@glenwoodriverresidentsgrou136]

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

[@Tclans]

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

[@johnbrandon5493]

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

[@beboy12003]

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

[@warlocc-paul]

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

[@Donleecartoons]

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

[@Donleecartoons]

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

[@warlocc-paul]

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

[@vinrusso821]

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

[@johnjensen2217]

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

[@MrChugwater]

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

[@nickabel8279]

Unless it just goes self delete at the end.

[@FieroGT3400]

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

[@dmacpher]

Looks like a Convair Kingfish! Neat

[@FoundAndExplained]

Literally related!

[@dmacpher]

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

[@clarencehopkins7832]

Excellent stuff bro

[@shaider1982]

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

[@TheAutism_Man]

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

[@VulcanDriver1]

I have a 1/72 model of this aircraft.

[@Masters_Yukesh]

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

[@blitzzkrieg1400]

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

[@oxcart4172]

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

[@corneljackson2991]

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

[@creamgravy1]

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

[@Aaron-zu3xn]

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

[@jbreefer148]

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

[@derpyallan1435]

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

[@wwiggans]

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

[@Fish_witha_gun]

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

[@brucecampbell6133]

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

[@dorsk84]

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

[@grahamnash9794]

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

[@uncbadguy]

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

[@thomasblankinship98]

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

[@twistedsaltypretzel7727]

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

[@captaintoyota3171]

Also high speed doesnt help interconnected radar systems

[@lightman489]

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

[@mpeugeot]

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

[@whyme8068]

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

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

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

[@captaintoyota3171]

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

[@user-mc5oh2pl7t]

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

[@badlaamaurukehu]

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

[@Donleecartoons]

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

[@kdrapertrucker]

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

[@edith.0301]

it's predecessor was the sr69 vibrator

[@williehydejr1798]

Please do more content like this

[@spectator7216]

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

[@billyt69]

the VFX reminded me of a sighting i had early 2000s, although i dont know why one of these would be down under. Western Sydney AU late one evening, there was an object moving North to South almost directly overhead (a little to the east) what caught me as strange was the pulsating of the engine (visual only, i heard no sound) it was a bright yellow/orange triangular output from the rear of the craft very distinct flickering maybe 2-3 times a second, from memory. i thought it may have been a rocket or space shuttle i later looked it up & shuttle was docked with ISS at the time. it moved across the sky, i noticed it at very high angle up & watched it disappear to the south moved at similar speed from my perspective as ISS. Maybe 1-2 minutes before it was out of sight but the entire time the engine was pulsating in the same manner. One of those thing i wondered all this time what i saw, it was very unusual for our part of the world. there is no rocket launches etc. of any explanation so far, this seems to fit...

[@Romanball5677]

I love this channel and your videos can you tell more about Soviet secret military planes and about UFO

[@FoundAndExplained]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnOVdmaVrMeJpbc - got a whole video right here!

[@Romanball5677]

@@FoundAndExplainedwow thanks I very interested in your videos I’m trying to be a history professor to teach country history and I like these videos teaching about these secrets planes the USA and Soviet Union made in the Cold War

[@lamarkingram5320]

Loved your sneak-peeks from Dubai as well! Keep up the great work!

[@ImRuined666]

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

[@Istandby666]

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

[@RallyRacingVideo]

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

[@Istandby666]

@@RallyRacingVideo Most likely a technology demonstrator.

[@RallyRacingVideo]

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

[@ahha6304]

Yoooo happy birthday Nickster!

[@whogivesacrap84]

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

[@proteusnz99]

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

[@user-dm5tn3wx2w]

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

[@martinkasper197]

Mainly the Skunkworks and Northrop Grumman...🤓

[@alwynwatson6119]

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

[@Pistolita221]

​@@martinkasper197DARPA aren't slouches

[@marsmotion]

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

[@radiofreealbemuth8540]

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

[@carltonleboss]

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

[@catscotish]

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

[@lucapanfil2572]

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

[@scottsuhr2919]

If the SR-75 needed a 10 mi runway in NV, how did they get off the ground in Scotland? What good does a parasite with a 250 nm range do over enemy territory? -- they can't in-flight refuel to get back to a friendly runway. If the SR-75 can fly without being seen by radar as stated in the beginning of the segment, why did it need an F-111 escort to confuse FAA radars (which are nowhere near as sensitive as air defense radars) . . . BYW the FAA tracks on your transponder . . . normally no one even looks at the skin paint return. AND, re: ~18:40 comment about sitting on the tech -- the D-21 drone is a ramjet (Mach 3.3) -- we did not have a useable scramjet until decades later . . . . As to model makers being accurate -- the model of the "Aurora" was all rounded up until the F-117 was revealed/disclosed. . . The video shown at 20:00 does not even show rings on a rope -- it is the trail of a rocket -- a gap during staging-- upperstage ignition with the distinctive "flaring" of the exhaust as it reaches higher altitude.

[@jamesm3123]

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

[@ThePro.io21]

Such a great video love it

[@oofercavan]

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

[@marwat8741]

Governments always tell us everything, they dont keep secrets😅

[@maynardholmes8870]

This aircraft makes a whole lot of sense in the mid-80s. I was on board an aircraft carrier and back in those days you knew how to identify aircraft in the pitch black darkness out to see by their lighting signature and if they have app afterburners that too now I used to go by area 51 all the time for 15 years as a trucker and one night I did see some thing with a wide angle rear end could not see what it was because it was just too dark but I knew whatever was flying was huge And on the back of the engine it was pulsing and there were a couple of chase aircraft around it now I’m not one of these alien conspiracy dudes. I do believe there’s extra terrestrial life but they’re a whole lot smarter than us so they don’t need our technology, but seeing this animation, makes it all clear what I saw that night testing that’s all they’re doing out there in Groom Lake is testingdifferent products

[@RallyRacingVideo]

Indeed interesting! Would love to hear about the Groom Lake sighting more, what year was it?

[@maynardholmes8870]

@@RallyRacingVideo 2010 or 2011 I just became somewhat oblivious to the operations but new something big was being conducted

[@SKOTISMAXAMIS]

Just like the G.I.Jo the cobra nite raven 😂. It was a cool toy back in the day😂😂

[@GauntletKI]

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

[@boltmaX]

looks like something from kerbal space program

[@M3PH11]

this was known as project aurora. i have seen one in flight over my parents house multiple times. 14:42 the last time as boxing day 2016. My parents and my siblings also saw it. It was heading north from the general direction of raf fairford. so this part can not be accurate.

[@AlanStock-wt5tm]

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

[@jonathanleonard1152]

I remember talk of sightings of condensation trails and aircraft shapes that fit this video descriptions. It has been decades now since then. It is very possible, if not likely, that new development has led to expendable low orbit autonomous space craft that can: Fly higher, Faster, Return data while in flight and Totally destruct on impact with ocean waters. Use once and trash is the American way.

[@Flies2FLL]

How do they cool the cockpit? This is one of those things that I call a "possible" but not a probable. My theory on black aircraft is that the vast majority of what they are secretly building these days are hypersonic drones. Both for reconnaissance and strategic uses. So this SR-75 was operational 35 years ago in 1989, and somehow it is still secret~? Not very likely folks, think about it. Great video!

[@weareallbeingwatched4602]

the x37 is precisely more than likely the reason why the hypersonic scramjet system was retired - unmanned options which can sustain space flight for 24 months at a time. Predator MQ1 drones were also in use by that point, being developed in the early '80s - cheap, light, disposable, and invisible to RADAR.

[@shovelchop81bikeralex52]

Yay it's the COBRA Night Raven from GI-J.O.E. !! The toy was released in the 1980's (got one again lol) so can't have been that much of a secret! ;-)

[@mpeugeot]

I was in the Lancaster/Palmdale area from 1989-2002, and there were certainly aerospace phenomenon that I couldn't explain happening in the 2am-4am hours in the mid to late 90's, despite working at Edwards AFB and having better access to the flight line than most. Maybe you can do a video on why nothing ever happened at the North Base flight line at Edwards AFB...

[@RallyRacingVideo]

Could you extend on the 2am-4am aerospace phenomenon from the mid-late 90's? Really interesting to say the least!

[@mpeugeot]

@@RallyRacingVideo variety of things, some obviously highly maneuverable (with rather unorthodox movement at speeds far faster than rotorcraft) and one in particular at very high altitude, going from above my vehicle to over the visible horizon in seconds (almost like a comet/meteor, but clearly not the same as a comet/meteor visually). Speed was unbelievable and altitude remained constant.

[@RallyRacingVideo]

@@mpeugeot would you say that the particular one that was high altitude and flew above your vehicle was a manned aircraft?

[@mpeugeot]

@@RallyRacingVideo impossible to know, but this also coincided with the seismic reports of a high speed aircraft at the time that was the subject of speculation. I didn't hear any sonic boom, but I was driving a rather loud 1970 El Camino at the time back from Pomona to Lancaster around 4 am.

[@RallyRacingVideo]

@@mpeugeot the seismic reports that were called "skyquakes"? They were occuring in the early to mid 90's, no afterwards AFAIK. Are you referring to them or to some other seimsic reports that I'm not aware of?

[@sop1918]

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

[@WolfeSaber9933]

China

[@sop1918]

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

[@WolfeSaber9933]

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

[@sop1918]

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

[@WolfeSaber9933]

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

[@col.g.7698]

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

[@daniel72_751]

Back in the 1950s, the idea was to fly higher than SAMs hence the U-2 until Gary Powers was shot down. Then in the 1960s the idea was to fly so fast the SAMs could not catch up hence the SR-71. Then in the 1970s the idea was to be undetectable to the SAMs hence the Tacit Blue. There is no point in a large fast aircraft as the successor to the SR-71. The successor is no doubt a slow, small aircraft invisible to radar. This is why interest in hypersonics disappeared - there’s no point in it.