US Revealed Top SECRET Hypersonic Aircraft Reaching Mach 10

Just 60 years after the legendary SR-71 Blackbird’s first flight, its legacy still lives on!
But, if in the 1970s the speed of more than Mach 3 seemed “crazy” for a production model, then in today’s hypersonic arms race, the US intends to double the records of past generations.
We give you the new project of the “secrecy” from specialists at Skunk Works - the SR-72, also known as the “son of the Blackbird”.

[@kenegerton7512]

If USAF and CIA retired SR71 they definitely had a working replacement before 1998. If they are talking about SR72 now , it's only because they have something much better already in use. That's just how it works.

[@tinetannies4637]

The replacement was satellites. The SR-71, like the U2, was flown over Soviet air space. Even with the SR-71 as fast as it was, that became both too provocative and too dangerous. Satellites, on the other hand, can fly directly over a nation's territory without technically violating its airspace.

[@jamesbugbee9026]

In the quiet of early morning darkness in the early 2000s, 1 could here the gentle double-pucker of a pair of Auroras on their way (2 do stereo work?). Me & my X wife heard things FAR TOO NOISY 2B kept really secret while on our trips 2 Vegas in the mid 1990s. Support the Space Force.

[@solnidor]

Smart person you are. But let's not ruin it for folks who leave thinking they are "in the know."

[@craigschultz9266]

Incredible Stuff!!

[@matthewjohnson1891]

My Dad was an engineer in the navy, he told me "whatever you hear about we have something ten years ahead of that already"

[@johnpaulbacon8320]

Nice video. I wouldn't put it past or doubt the Skunk Work in anything they work on. :)

[@YenDiki]

SKUNK WORK....'NUFF SAID🐽🐽💩💩

[@cypan1]

My Father was very involved with the 71 ... The 71 was a incredible plane .. Iam sure with given time, the 72 will be Another Ace Aircraft and will Be way ahead of its Time !

[@G.O.D..]

Our country cannot afford not to be the leader in aviation technology. usa!

[@keith8624]

I agree, don’t second guess our military equipment and personnel. We’re the best of the best and Ukrainian soldiers are testing them for us and are beating Russia a supposedly world power country. Mad Dog Mattis hit the nail on the head with his quote “Don’t Fuck with the US”

[@lancerevell5979]

We must figure Skunk Works has had something along the lines of SR-72 for awhile now.

[@TahoeJones]

The shape seems to have been predicted by Hollywood and concept artists way back when. Early comic books. Huge price though. Just a few, hopefully with strict oversight.

[@kennethflecknell6313]

No, way past the SR series

[@RATCLIFFE-LISTENS]

@@TahoeJones We agree. Great comment.

[@anynomoustrooper550]

I can almost guarantee that Skunkworks is very busy at work on the hypersonic bomber. Sure, there are other programs but speed is always the winning factor.

[@delhume2691]

Great. Fantastic work!

[@kotabear151]

It's so top secret even the guy that made it from his Lego set doesn't know about it! 😯😜

[@tinetannies4637]

Consider that it was just 63 years from the Wright brothers' first flight to Apollo landing on the moon. Now consider that the SR-71 made its first flight in 1962, 61 years ago. Mach 10 doesn't seem far fetched.

[@Bird_McBride]

Apollo flew at over 25000 MPH.

[@tinetannies4637]

@@Bird_McBride amazing right? So much advancement in such a short time

[@markcole6475]

The moon landing never happened

[@Bird_McBride]

@@markcole6475 that's crap. We sent Leavenworth's finest. The cameras didn't work because of various reasons. They were launched on their execution dates. USA officials were adamant that it was a suicide mission and NASA was told they couldn't sent the astronauts. Gene, the last guy on the moon was a real NASA astronaut and not a convict. The pictures from the initial lamdind were derived from hand drawn and staged into pictures for the public. A lot like it was done before cameras. The only real picture of the first landing was taken by the TV camera before the tube blew. It was a huge debate about mounting a heavy TV camera etc.

[@markcole6475]

@@Bird_McBride it was all made up in a couple hangers! Hundreds of not Bags of cement brought it to make it look like moon dust! More to it than that ,but have watched a couple KZbin documentaries about how elaborate it was to make it look real.

[@roganmuldoon3357]

It's amazing how many 'next generation' aircraft have been revealed on a weekly basis. Isn't fantasrtic what you can do with computer modeling programs!?

[@donpierce4829]

It's also amazing how many Podcasters know what the new 6th generation plane looks like! But once you start watching their vids the same old pictures of different proposals are shown!! They all think its Lockheed but it may not be, There is more than one company involved!!

[@aaronward8495]

@@donpierce4829 🤣🤣That's why i watch things like this once a year lol. Fun to watch when your bored but like you said same designs

[@greatmusicneverdies6253]

I wish we could see what they really have. I have seen various documentaries that say Star Trek technology or anything like it we could imagine has been mastered. Transporters?? Warp drive?? I just hope they have their technologies locked down to the 10th power so that it would be impossible for any enemy to steal them...

[@stenkarasin2091]

I love these "secret"Projects that are spruiked all over the internet.

[@the.tranquility]

That looks somehow cool. very futuristic.

[@charliepruitt517]

By the time you hear about a project, it's already 30 years old. At least.

[@charliepruitt517]

Do you think China has Skunk Works. Ha ha

[@ericclausen6772]

Smart setup plasma shield will make it not being able to be locked onto it because of the plasma shield around it but it should have hypersonic also saving on conventional weapons

[@G.O.D..]

That certainly looks like what a new sr71. Hope it's operational

[@RoryK]

Does anyone know the SR71 development story? If they are in fact developing an actual hypersonic successor I can practically guarantee it'll be top secret for quite a while

[@stevehorner8302]

i have seen the super fast jets flying over Christchurch in the south Island of New Zealand. I stood with a aviation engineer for around 20 mins, watching some UFO's flying at incredible speeds and manoeuvrability. Disappearing into space and reappearing seconds later. These machines could slow down and speed up at will. Mach 11 was an explanation that someone told me these machines could achieve.

[@TakedaKenshin]

🤡🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️.

[@solnidor]

UFOs and UAPs are not the same thing. UAPs are human made.

[@SingingPostman27]

Thank you so very much. The SR-71 was a favorite Aircraft, and I'm looking forward to the SR-72. Will the Boom Supersonic Commercial Airliner be completed in the near future?

[@mommy01920atgmailcom]

For a compressor stage you folr folks should look at the blades for the new props on the outboards with the lake holes in them it's like a two-piece kind of blades twisted everything I think you make a great compressor blade if you just try them and they sure can't go supersonic

[@Chet73]

The SR-72 must use some type boost engine to reach velocities for a scramjet because of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s involvement in the project.

[@kennethflecknell6313]

You are thinking inside the box.

[@Chet73]

@@kennethflecknell6313 You’re the box.

[@coreyc47]

With the modern age of hyper - sonic planes & weapons we now need hyper-sonic detection & response times!

[@Intuittogo]

Wow, this is totally amazing! I've heard it suggested that after Mach 10 time starts to reverse or 'change'. Time Travel....

[@farlonfudpucker6640]

You're kidding, right? Mach 10 = 7673 mi/hr. The speed of light, c = 186,000 mi/SEC. So Mach 10 = 0.0001 c which is much, much too slow for any observable relativistic time dilation (Special Relativity) let alone "reversal" whatever that is. Consider that orbital velocity to reach a 124 mile orbit is 17,000 mi/hr and escape velocity is 25,000. Pretty sure that the Apollo astronauts didn't notice any "time reversal!" They did, however, age a few nanoseconds more than the rest of us on Earth due to the effects of microgravity (General Relativity says that time slows down as the gravitational field increases). Ditto for Space Station astronauts.

[@harryballz6358]

Standard Air strip landing/take off should have been a thing of the past on future military crafts. Guess we'll keep extending our air strips for them.

[@larryrochelle2517]

Awesome!!!!👍👍👍👍

[@leeofallon9258]

Thermal problems at mach 6-8 range include fuel dynamics (alt?) and inertial distortion that strongly suggests a non-reusable platform that is quite pricey … this jewel would be reserved for closing arguments in a three- or four-fold phase assault that has not progressed too well.

[@skipshultz7421]

I would guess it's already in the works. And videos like this makes it difficult to keep things ultra top-secret.

[@blair5988]

Thank ypu!!

[@golommatthew899]

It’s been already built beyond what we think it should be, and what you think it is, I have full faith in our human race to the point is scares the crap out of me

[@slobodan888]

The 'stock footage' or 'Getty images' of the 'people' working on this project makes me LOL!

[@Mike-iv3hy]

If this is so top secret it would not be on KZbin

[@soniabaker9790]

Now this looks very alien.

[@machdaddy6451]

Evolution of the amazing J-58.

[@thomascrowe3407]

I think DARPA should give themselves a raise! And everybody else!

[@pieterbezuidenhout2741]

CGI and Train loads of IMAGINATION.

[@ralucaspataru7618]

SR-72 DARKSTAR: I'm fast af 😎 Darpa falcon: but I'm 2x faster 👽

[@JROrg2009]

We also need an "air / space" plane, one unit that can be both air-breathe, and operate for time in at least LEO. Able to go to and from both environments.

[@box3976]

If you can "Think It", a good chance it be already... Done..."...

[@ChalcedonXXX]

A Tic Tac for example.

[@JROrg2009]

@@ChalcedonXXX Hmm, yes...have heard that name phrase, but had for me to gain information on it.

[@ryanmartinez8854]

@@ChalcedonXXX not air breathing

[@stevehuskey9037]

Reaching Escape Velocity is a big thing to overcome. SCRAM jets won't work in zero atmosphere. Rockets need chemical propellants to achieve this. But that would be the Holy Grail of flight for sure.

[@TheBeefSlayer]

6:11 The Mayhem project… “Sir! The first rule of PROJECT MAYHEM is you don’t ask questions about PROJECT MAYHEM. SIR!” 😂😂😂😂

[@Phoenix-ym6yf]

Weird how there was no mention on the development of pulse engines.. If the stories are to be believed, they are more fuel efficient and have a higher power output resulting in a lot higher speeds. They are also apparently lighter than a conventional jet engine.

[@mcsmith7606]

$20 Million in the 60's is $200 million today so new plane is half the real price of the Blackbird.

[@phillipbailey8163]

Smooth up in ya.

[@solnidor]

"TOP SECRET" projects aren't mentioned on KZbin.

[@LunaErosStudios]

I wonder if they are successful in creating a Mach10+ aircraft will pilots be able to withstand that speed or will they have to be remote operated drones.

[@riconui5227]

There is little reason to put the pilot in the aircraft anymore. The capability of AI to create a semi-autonomous vehicle, with remote operators makes better sense. The savings in weight by eliminating the onboard pilot justifies the change. Having operators in theater, say on a command ship, will lend to the situational awareness necessary. And if a ship is destroyed, we didn’t lose a trained pilot. The remote pilot just dials up another unit and resumes. But we cannot fail to address the moral accommodations that are required as warfare becomes more remotely conducted.

[@NB-yu4lj]

Nice graphics

[@ioanbota9397]

Realy I like this hypersonic aircraft

[@leeofallon9258]

Mayhem : any global target in an hour? Even the fuel mix would would be a wondrous witches brew!

[@fredbeyersdofer5290]

The EFE or electronic fow engine would be more stealth using the air as plasma to accelerate and thrust the craft with little to no heat signature.

[@gerlandkent6377]

DONT, MESS WITH THE US. 🇺🇸

[@frankperez1953]

Protect these blue prints from the Chinese and Russians, please.

[@rayether3140]

Please!! And thank you

[@waynehulen7416]

Fool

[@madsam0320]

Stole from the Chinese and Russians.

[@udontknowme7798]

Why shouldn't Russia and China have any interest in something that both have a better technology for with their already hypersonic technology? Both Russia and China have at least hypersonic missiles in service.

[@andrewhitchcock4288]

@@udontknowme7798 bro we have jets that move faster than any of their hypersonic and ballistic missiles. Anything that China and Russia is showing off right now we've already had for 30 to 40 years. If a war ever breaks out you will see just how much further we are ahead of them technology wise.

[@charleshall6357]

Ive personally seen it.watched it skip across the sky blinking like a satellite but much faster and more of a fire shooting star blink than sattelites.once it dropped down was glowing could see it clearly in a rural area.looks very similar to sr 71 with duel tail fins and drives.difference being the output end was rectangular and not circular.once it dropped down saw two escorts greet it only saw the lights on them they werent glowing like the previous.

[@charleshall6357]

@@braybilly i dont give a damn what you think im not that creative

[@timwright8785]

They probably had these long before the blackbird was retired will be bringing them out eventually to the public

[@markyoung9497]

You do realise you are more than 20 years behind the curve. In my day 30 years ago we were at mach 10.

[@darfoster7773]

I thought you were going to talk about the SR91 Aurora! This is old info.

[@ransomdaniels8395]

Wow.😮

[@fishingbear69]

Hopefully soon will exceed Mach 6 or 10 with special materials and electronics , since speed I feel it's of out most importance to go in strike and exit asap..

[@2w4e3]

Conventional jet engines (modern jet engines used widely) are axial flow, not centrifugal

[@markthompson4859]

Top Secret eh? Wow! All over YT...Wow!

[@WesleyTarpley]

Yes

[@thomascrowe3407]

Way to go DARPA!

[@tesmith47]

Yyeah, spend that money, we don't need no, bridges, highways,education,housing, health,food...............

[@DJKaBz1]

when will the tr-3b start showing up at airshows?

[@merengueardiente]

knowing how they work, they tell public of technologies probably 20 year or more year old, what we are seen here is from 100% from 2000 and all of that is been discontinued and something else is already on the air that we don't even have idea, and they are already working on something else way better

[@anthonybarnard3527]

Damm thats fast!!!

[@falvegas511]

Materials Technology and Structural Sciences are the wave of the future in High Stress Flights. Also, at mach 5 and Above....can you really use a Pilot, and How do you launch Weapons at those speeds...unless it's Lasers or the Ship Slows Down.

[@rosscohenderson1651]

But we still cannot travel 60 miles in 5 seconds in any jet humans build . So , what was the tic-tac and where did it come from ?

[@MissionaryForMexico]

What about Aurora? That is latest high speed platform of Mach 8!

[@user-wz2bf3hb5c]

I've been curious about how far we've gotten

[@jdwisdom9433]

Before the 2030's? We'd have to really be drawing our rudder to be that slow!!

[@damarlintangchannel7012]

Good

[@michaellawrence2762]

Don’t loose this one .

[@gyverebes]

super..

[@C21H30O2]

We've heard this all before...

[@MichaelLloydMobile]

It's ignorant to provide a cost of an aircraft in the 1960s without making that number inflation adjusted.

[@dakrontu]

At 3:23 anomalous traffic flow suggests either footage from outside US or image is L-R reversed.

[@mitchellculberson9336]

Simple use extra air intake vents with lovers to open & close.Worked on the V'1.

[@adchirnabil2105]

good

[@ericclausen6772]

We so crazy never enough horses under the hood

[@shaunroberts9361]

Interesting..

[@phillipbailey8163]

Smooth up in you Commies.

[@ericclausen6772]

Make one that you have to cool down and work on magic and super quick

[@AwgDinero]

I had no idea we had no working scramjet that could be reused again I thought we just use the other engines for that

[@kenichitamagusuku3194]

Why is one only goes Mack 6 when Mavericks went over Mack ten?

[@linzalabamaawake5230]

What I would like to know is why the triangular shaped craft with the ball lights on the bottom made people think it was a uFO😂😂 same shape as a plane with less “cut-outs”. It’s like no one has ever made a decent paper plane😏

[@allysonlayman4698]

It's already flying, while trucking across AZ on a load from Los Angeles to Atlanta I noticed a vapor trail zipping across the sky. It wasn't a F-22 or F-35 or anything I've see streaking across the skys. It wasn't the TR 3b, nor the Aurora or the Black Manta. Check them out... there next. Well maybe you won't here about the TR3b, that's very secret stuff.

[@Bird_McBride]

They were Russian. They landed at Canadian airforce base Greenwood NS.

[@bluenetmarketing]

So what happens when you release a bomb not designed for Mach 6?

[@michaelw7800]

America’s NGAD needs to outrun Russia’s (their NGAD interceptor) by a lot. All while pushing AI drones huge. The size needs to be large enough for a full load out on weapons and max fuel to be under its stealth cover, with enough power to carry all this and crazy electronics crazy fast (Mach 5 to 12 plus)… worthy goals

[@Bird_McBride]

Hypersonic missiles are in fact cheaper than ramjet. Russia uses a nuclear reactant solid fuel to propel the hypersonic missiles.

[@raywright7996]

MR. PRESIDENT BENDIN, I'M FLYING INTO WASHINGTON THIS COMING APRIL 5-23 THANKS FOR BEING THEIR FOR I GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE FAMILY'S OF AMERICA OLD GLORY CHRISTO TOO US

[@frankymuthiani7000]

Protection program must be planned to the secret of this technology please

[@johnfarrelly4753]

Right from Top Gun

[@Ivan-te5rv]

Yeah... the problem is the aircraft is soo expensive and us has no money to pay for it.

[@mikehenthorn7110]

It’s been flying since 2007…

[@bkaley8974]

What was the cost again?

[@chriswatt859]

Essentially a low earth orbit space bomber

[@juanbb00]

SOB 72 would have been a better name ^_^

[@bobbg9041]

Lol, how many years did the SR71 fly before the public even knew about it? Think about that for a second. What we don't know is what the USA has.

[@chillxxx241]

This stuff is way more exciting than the stuff China is claiming or the old Ballistic missile on a plane that the Russians claim as a new hypersonic missile.

[@McDoogle435]

the company VELONTRA has invented a plane that can go to space using ramjet tech

[@chip1pan]

What ever happened to aurora

[@Bruce22027]

Don’t have the simplest hypersonic glide missile (because we don’t know how to design them for practical use) but don’t worry, we’re gonna have a jet! Once we figure out a few critical details….that other powers figured out a decade ago It’s like listening to my kid tell me he’s gonna win motocross championship in a few years, just as soon as he figures out how to ride his bike without training wheels.

[@pauldorfman701]

Lol that was funny.