US Tests Top SECRET Hypersonic Aircraft to Beat SR-72

US Tests Top SECRET Hypersonic Aircraft to Beat SR-72
Hermeus’ hypersonic Quarterhorse jet might just be the jet of the future, possibly retiring even Lockheed Martin’s jet of the future - the hypersonic SR-72 - before it sees the light of day. The Quarterhorse has broken new grounds and the United States Air Force is more than impressed. So much so that they’ve awarded the start-up company a $60-million contract to flight-test the Quarterhorse.
The Quarterhorse is estimated to travel Mach 5 speeds - five times the speed of sound - on a single go and is based on the Turbine-Based Combined Cycle - TBCC - engine, which combines a supersonic turbojet engine with a scramjet, which is simply a supersonic combustion ramjet engine. This engine configuration means the Quarterhorse would perform effortlessly well at whatever speeds - be it the relatively low commercial airline speeds of today or at hypersonic speeds that would leave even fighter jets in the dust.

[@arnotheel9163]

Completely secret. That's why it is on KZbin

[@joser2034]

oh you din't getit, is the new hollywood movie, called " liar liar second part "

[@cahjcahj5783]

X que después de eso hay otro mejor

[@anthonypasco9378]

Lɔl

[@tuliocastaneda7653]

Mi te lo@@joser2034 a la venta de los billetes de avión de la tarjeta

[@DavidRLentz]

Someone thinks he or she knows something.

[@wannabeangler]

I did a job as a carpenter at the NASA, Langley Virginia location in the 90s and saw drawings for this bird. I always remained quiet about it and now 20+ years later I see it on social media. Guess someone else let the cat out of the bag.

[@joelbell9082]

I was stationed at a top secret missile base in Kansas while in the service we used to have war games that continued on for days there is a lot about the military that they don't disclose they have been reverse engineering captured UFOs since the 1950s and we have offensive weapons that would Bogle the mind and our adversaries the only thing that concerns me is keeping it secret from our enemies they have spies everywhere

[@dabulls1g]

I worked at the ranch in the 80s, we used to fly these planes to release stress after eating lobsters and getting our dicks sucked

[@fredmutiibwa8434]

You deserve to be the hero of the world ! Bravo

[@colinbyerly5212]

Having seen the very first SR 71 in a hanger in 1965 at Fort Worth Texas was like seeing a true UFO at the time . No questions about it dark black color to add to its very strange shape . This is now something I was able to sit in at the Boeing plant . As well as having full access to a Supersonic transport. That was a plane I would hate to ride in as it had no real room especially if it had passengers . I would think the next transport would be just as small inside the passenger areas . The feeling was one of a self made Coffin ride that I would rather walk than ride anywhere at anytime . I would recommend a tour all day at the Seattle Washington Boing museum they even had jfk president one last aircraft the day he was shot . And you can be go inside and see how it felt to sit down and even see his bathroom next to the hot phones . And I was lucky to be alone and have the full day to photo so many cool aircraft that I would return over and over to see .

[@donpierce4829]

You can add a Concorde to that to it had no real room either!

[@parttimetourist]

US Tests Top SECRET Hypersonic Aircraft which is so SECRET it is illustrated on KZbin LOL

[@ericmontano1267]

Its 20 to 30 years ago. Only showing now because they got something better in the works.

[@blahblah6497]

The SR-71 is STILL the absolute most Beautiful and Sexy Bird EVER Built!!

[@cristobalcardona5592]

I am very happy I worked on the J-85 Engine; a very reliable platform with low to none vibration problems. It's alloys resisted the test of time and heat! If I am not mistaken, the J-85 was formulated as a missile engine for s single use. Imagine that!

[@FrontCost]

Wow, amazing!

[@mattcarden1196]

TY 🇺🇸👍😎

[@hifinsword]

What would be amazing to see, is the real SR-72, or the Quarterhorse so often referred to, but not shown. This video was more about the SR-71 than anything else, which is fine with me, but not what the title indicated.

[@kathrynck]

Yeah, agreed.

[@vernwhite9807]

Very good photograph and interesting

[@starseedwarrior1310]

Already have 2, the TR-3 Black Manta and SR-91 Aurora

[@douglascotton8816]

Knowledge will increase!

[@pirolefontaine1443]

Sur le plan de la technologie USA est le number one sans discussion.

[@rjmitchell5128]

Next it will be piloted by Flash Gordon or Top Gun Tom Cruise haha

[@lwriderjr]

Always have been in awe of "The Bird" the visual spectacle of her and the capabilities...just plain awesome !!! Would've loved to have been privileged enough to fly her...talk about permanent wood ...PERMANENT !!! Good Times 🇺🇸

[@garymccann2960]

The SR71 CRUSED over Mach 3 (about 3.3) But the top speed was much higher and limited only by structural heating.

[@rdelrosso2001]

The top speed was classified, as in "Classified Top Secret". But people who have been inside an SR-71 say that the Air Speed Indicator was made to register a possible Mach 10 (7,000 MPH).

[@Mrbfgray]

@@rdelrosso2001 Never even considered speedo-meter limits. Interesting if accurate. Saw in person just a few times in my life including one supersonic over the Owens Valley, CA. *way high* but that's about the only thing it could have been.

[@Mrbfgray]

Structural thermal limitations are fundamental in this regime, interesting if that was the residual roadblock to even higher sps, wouldn't shockwave me, heat was always explicitly one of the limiting factors. To learn they were expecting mach 8 even possible?! (gauge should always extend beyond capability) is amazing, perhaps in specific very high alt diving condition?

[@dabulls1g]

Coast to coast in the continental United States in 1 hour is equivalent to what speed?

[@kathrynck]

@@rdelrosso2001 It couldn't go mach 10. The J-58 engines were capable of producing thrust through about mach 3.8, but the drop off in positive thrust performance got pretty bad by 3.8. So it wouldn't propel the plane that fast with drag competing against it. It normally cruised at around mach 3.3, but it could go up to mach 3.6 (in level flight) as an absolute maximum. I know of one specific example of a pilot saying he throttled up to mach 3.56 in response to being fired upon while flying over the USSR. SR-71 is typically credited with mach 3+ and 80,000+ ft altitude. It's real typical operational parameters were about 10% above these figures, and it's maximum potential was about 20% above on both numbers. The airframe was mostly titanium, and had direct fuel-to-skin contact to use the fuel as a coolant for the body panels. The materials could probably handle up to about mach 4 max (if you intend to re-use the aircraft many times anyway). A hypersonic missile can go far faster, mostly because it doesn't fundamentally have to survive the process. "One time use" makes a huge difference. In order to go over mach 4 (with something you want to fly hundreds of times) you're going to need something much more clever than just swapping out aluminum for titanium, and gently baking the fuel to dissipate heat. The SR-71 had siblings in the stealthy Archangel 12 design family though. Most people know about the YF-12, but there were several others. The YF-12 was slightly faster than the SR-71. It was also a bit lighter & shorter. There was a model called only "the article" which was produced alongside the SR-71. The armed version fired a missile which was a predecessor to the AIM-54 Phoenix, known as the AIM-47 Falcon missile, which was tipped with a nuclear warhead. The top speed of the AIM-47 (and AIM-54) was rated to around mach 5 (which probably means around mach 5.5 or so). Although, when fired from 90,000 ft or so (from a platform already going mach 3.4 or so) the missile probably reached a noticeably higher max speed. I wouldn't be surprised if it got over mach 6 from that kind of firing position. Anyway, the missile would ideally travel substantially far ahead of the archangel plane before detonating (cuz it's nuclear tipped). So just based on that you can know that the archangel plane couldn't be traveling more than about mach 4 tops, or it would do too good a job of catching up with it's own missile, and getting caught in the blast radius of it's own nuclear warheads. In a sense, the SR-71 is a "recon knock-off" of a plane which was originally designed to be an air-to-air fighter for use in a nuclear shooting war. Thus the performance extremes, and emphasis on early stealth technology. I don't know about the air speed gauge. It may have gone up to 10. I didn't really look at it when I have seen the cockpit. If it did though, I'm certain it's just because they had a bunch of gauge dials which were numbered 1-10, and it was just handy to use. Or possibly it was a ploy to obfuscate the maximum speed from being easily determined by prying eyes with only a glance at the air speed gauge.

[@shawntepitts488]

Good one

[@DeickFranfan]

excellent documentary 👍💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎🤩🤩

[@janicepedroli7403]

I was surprised how I got this. I thought I read it was retired. Any way if you re bringing it back. Have you considered the shape of a scarlet may felt with the same kind of wings it has now paint it irradescent blue black.

[@BobbyTB425]

Let's see the SR74 and SR75

[@michaelmulholland927]

So if it's Top Secret, how does it appear on KZbin??????????

[@lioneldawson]

Bring on the warp technology

[@peterhenson4048]

Maybe strap 1000 turbos on its wings and then it may reach invisible to everything and it may remain a misery.

[@andreasleonardo6793]

WOW what enjoyment video about future fighter jet ( 6 generation) project ( Quaterhorse) with hypersonic abilities & ultra superiority characteristics...also how presented of SR-71(black birds)with its characteristics helped producers to producing more progressing designs( SR-72 black birds son) ...thanks for sharing too enjoying video

[@joser2034]

dont get much exited, still no real just a proyect, but a hollywood proyect, a coverup !, to justified the money robed by the big corp. to the americans tax payes.

[@habibilumajang2492]

Ini baru oke,###################

[@estelacabrera3069]

God bless America

[@joser2034]

you mean god fuck by america right?

[@godblessamerica99]

I personally am glad the air force is back on a speed kick. It's been hard to watch our fighter jets become lame.

[@stevenhart8868]

America needs this for sure

[@jimmiewhite6688]

I was wondering… Doesn’t testing a “Top Secret Hypersonic Aircraft“ all over KZbin kinda defeat the purpose of “Top Secret!?”

[@andrewgordon235]

The most Russia or China could do is copy the sheet metal not the guts that make it work. When the Russians copied the Concord by looking at pictures of it they didn't know about the highspeed fuel pumps that move the fuel back to the rear of the plane so it doesn't slosh forward during deceleration and cause the plane to crash. The Russian version did crash at the Paris Airshow in 1972.

[@joser2034]

@@andrewgordon235 IF SOMEBODY KNOW ABOUT ROKETS AND SPEED, IS RUSSIA, SIMPLE WHO'S ROCKETS WHERE USED IN THE US SPACE SHIPS LAUNCH? so before you open your mouth make some sense !!

[@bugstomper4670]

@@andrewgordon235 I had heard about the Concord's blueprints having some info deleted on purpose, in case they were stolen by Soviet spies. I'll back up what you say here. Nevermind what 'Gumby' says. He's just being a 'Blockhead'.

[@byewhobayou8868]

@@andrewgordon235 what they call top secret are just the things that the government doesn’t mind us knowing about, and aren’t that commonly known about. The real top secret planes are reported as UFO sightings.

[@blahblah6497]

@@byewhobayou8868 Ju Gotit baby...

[@nickdsylva932]

Can't see? What will they do with those "doughnuts on a rope" signature of a scramjet engine.

[@patriotamerican62]

Americans government would have never retired the SR-71 blackbird if they didn't have anything to replace it. Is it the SR-72? That a sight to see.

[@starseedwarrior1310]

SR-91 Aurora is what took it's place

[@jongowan1125]

It sure looks to me like it does

[@perkins1439]

And that's pretty good for 20 or 30 year old technology that's how long stuff like that has been around before we find out about it

[@stacybaldwin3346]

Popular mechanics wrote a piece on the Aurora 25 years ago. Hypersonic, scramjet, side angle cameras. You don't mothball a plane like the sr71 without a replacement.

[@ioanbota9397]

I like this hypersonic aircraft

[@sjvche7675]

You talk about the combined cycle engine, that's nice. The real nub is the skin and cooling it, it ain't composite that's for sure.

[@alfredneuman6488]

Alien .... spooky.....

[@arthurggrant1963]

Ya

[@user-io7gt7rs1h]

มีแต่ภาษาต่างประเทศที่คอมเมนต์เข้ามา อ่านไม่ออกไม่ขอแสดงความเห็น

[@Wildkat-1]

I read last year that P&W are pulling all of the J-58 engines out of moth-balls for upgrade to rebuild many of the hot-section parts , they are not doing that for fun ...?

[@kde5fan737]

Titles the video SR-72 but shows 99% SR-71.

[@justinscott-lee7393]

📜BLM approves of the selected air Craft units and new and improved air Units that is all📜

[@bigviper64]

As the super high speeds of these aircraft are being developed, its quite apparent that they will have to be without pilots, but maybe guided by a nearby coordinator. We can or could al be blown to HELL in milliseconds in the future.

[@tedbohne7528]

looks like an SR-71 TO ME... why is the government pulling out all these old boats?

[@paulprovenzano3755]

bird in the thumbnail looks like a Vulcan warship from Star Trek Enterprise.

[@stephensmith3708]

May go faster but will never replace the original...

[@michaelspeakman8924]

I would say that the speed of light. Before sound. And they need to start researching jumpgate curious so we can just walk through one gate here and show up in Japan or Russia or somewhere else in the world. I wonder when they're going to start putting trains on the major instead of driving or flying we can take a train to anywhere in any state.

[@AlwaysBeSmart674]

….what

[@tedlessor3887]

That will never happen lol

[@markwalton7298]

Your dreaming!

[@michaelspeakman8924]

The only thing that's difference between dreaming and reality is getting the job done.

[@426superbee4]

Very glade i'am not traveling at that speed ~ Can you even imagine the G forces 👀 Will some one pick me out of this seat HELP

[@georgerosu8600]

I pray everyday I get the chance to go by 5

[@DavidRLentz]

The definition of "hypersonic" is travelling five times the speed of sound. The supposed speed of the Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" USAF Surveillance Reconnaissance Aircraft of Mach 3 falls well short of the mark. I heard that the SR-71's last flight from Beale AFB outside Los Angeles to the AFB outside Washington DC, where it landed prior to its home at the Smithsonian flight museum was just under one hour to cover coast-to- coast, a distance of round 3,300 miles. Do the maths: it travelled over 3,300 mph, or in excess of 3,000 kts.

[@brstilomarijan5857]

Es ist nur ein weiterer Traum von dir.

[@ralphstacey2020]

sr 97, herd does ned fueling , great read

[@johnwindcliff2799]

There are so many hungry, disadvantaged kids and families in the world, its a shame we "need" expensive planes like this.

[@jossdionne9810]

Mach 5, perfect to "meet"the hyper speed Russian missiles at Mach 20!!

[@davidldk]

El misil AGM-180 supera el Mach 32

[@davidldk]

El proyecto TR-3b que vuela a velocidad impersonica de Mach 40

[@robertdrumwright1398]

8

[@franciskiunga4796]

It as high raders and misile jammers 😃😃😃😈

[@hifinsword]

Lasers outclass any hypersonic missile going Mach 20 or 50. It doesn't matter. The science will have to be countermeasures to lasers. Get that figured out and you don't need to go Mach anything. A B-52, F/A-18 or A-10 could target whatever needs to be destroyed if it has the countermeasures for missiles AND lasers.

[@bugstomper4670]

Remember when they were going to retire the A-10 Warthog? Remember when they were going to retire the F-15 Eagle? Remember when they were going to retire the .... 'If it 'ain't broke, don't fix it.' Just make it better.

[@MiguelRodriguez-zd6tq]

No technology is ever retired by the United States military unless they has a better more effective replacement. Unlike spy planes, Satellites are predictable and can be defeated. The SR-71 was retired in 1990, which is over three decades ago. If the sr-72 is powered by scramjet engines, and if there are materials that can withstand those massive forces, then no missile on Earth can bring it down. Maybe lasers fitted with Adaptive Optics can be effective enough to bring it down, but you have to know the flight plan, especially if stealth was used in its' construction.

[@mariodrechsler2618]

As you heard here Mach6 is planned for Blackbird 2.0. Seems to be in the planning state. Sadly Russian military has testet real hypersonic rocket Zirkon - Mach9 ! Every military cutting edge technology will be surpassed by a more cutting edge technology and both plunder the state treasury, filled by the honest tax payers....

[@hifinsword]

Miguel, if no missile on earth could bring it down, maybe a missile from orbit could? Or more likely a laser in orbit. Light travels faster than any hypersonic aircraft. If it can be tracked, it can be shot down. If it was me designing such a tracking system, I would look at either the heat track or contrails for tracking, not radar. The contrails wouldn't necessarily be visible, but ionized particles left behind by such a fast aircraft.

[@jackwalker9492]

Well said Miguel! LOL, brace yourself. An actual compliment on KZbin!

[@Deckers2006]

Katydids win everytime

[@imricjames5210]

I want one!

[@IcyMan143]

The 72 is a concept aircraft, it’s not made yet so you can’t beat it. But u can beat the 71 which I do think you meant

[@estelacabrera3069]

Impressionate EL HERMOSOPAJARITO

[@daveverster7483]

Please guys..folks..keep these videos REAL.. don't give us videogames' ideas for games!

[@DavidEVogel]

If its "Top SECRET" how did you find out about it? Or are you just making this up?

[@raymondlee2031]

Hollywood movies 🎥✨💛💕

[@renantetilanas9526]

From blackbird,to SR- 71 and SR-72 comes another variation of the U.S to the U.S. top secret hypersonic planes,may go within... May it will succeed so,for the help of necessity.

[@shaunjohnstewart6427]

I grew up breaking and training the Quarter Horse at the Howel Ranch in Flagstaff AZ. The Quater Horse moniker is the name if you are in the need of some speed !!! BAZOOKA TO THE US AIRFORCE FOR THE CREATION ofTHE 6th and 7th Generation Superior Adventure. Shaun John Stewart

[@ericellert4006]

If its announced its 15 years old, no?

[@63phillip]

I guess it's not top secret anymore. And let's get this straight commercial passengers will never travel at mach 5

[@estelacabrera3069]

Gracias fatness importante crecimiento

[@joe2531007]

Is this about the Sr71 the Sr72 or the quarterhorse? Another video about content you can get elsewhere. Not much about the quarterhorse. Yeah, it's the plane of the future, we get it.

[@karencole53]

Kool way cool

[@frankmurillo9823]

Get them rocket Nos inside the engine 😆

[@heartbeatearth]

What of the TR 3B ?? Which one is a smoke screen ?? China just flew their hypersonic missle, Russia says they have one too. Where are we really at ?? Reality is, we better have something flying Now, not in 2029, or we are too far behind.

[@joser2034]

no US is no behind is DEATH !!

[@tedsmith6137]

You are perpetuating the misunderstanding about the SR71. It was only the 3rd in the series, after the A-12 and YF12A. You randomly show footage of both the A12 and YF12A, presumably without knowing the difference between the 3 aircraft. More homework required.

[@donpierce4829]

Boeing has also been working on two concepts Commercial and military. Look up Valkyrie II and a commercial Hypersonic so this is nothing really new.

[@juancarrero1119]

Working on new concepts, is cool but, if we let China and Russia, keep hacking us it'll mean nothing.

[@PHALLAMP]

👍👍👍❤

[@tommytownsend3789]

I'm guessing there's nothing secret about it

[@kathrynck]

$60m to flight test a plane is actually a really, REALLY, small figure. Even if it flew at perfectly normal speeds. Something's fishy.

[@spit-boy9991]

I caught that too and wondered how on earth can they possibly build such technology for what amounts to chump change in the high tech aeronautical industry

[@kathrynck]

​@@spit-boy9991 Perhaps it's a misquote, and it's $60m to "further refine the concept"? or "virtual-flight test it"?

[@StormyWolf66]

I guess it's because the materials would be much cheaper and lighter than SR-71.. Hermeus Hypersonic Quarterhorse will use TBCC engines (Turbine-Based Combine Cycle), which is the combination of Supersonic Turbojet engines with Scramjet, which is Supersonic Combustion Ramjet engines. This configuration of the engines can performs effortlessly which relatively a speed of a commercial jet or Hypersonic speed that leave the fighter jet for dust.

[@kathrynck]

@@StormyWolf66 I don't think you understand how low $60m is to build a plane from scratch. A brand new F-16, which is a 'budget' small fighter aircraft, and there's been 3000 of them made, so the factory is already in place and fully paid for, and no development expenses, no engineering, no research, JUST building it... is around 60-65 million. And most aircraft with any technological complexity at all cost 3-digit billions to develop into a functioning full size prototype aircraft. You're not going to make up the difference with a coupon on materials. Also, ANY hypersonic aircraft is going to have exotic materials, ie: expensive materials. $60 million is about 1/10 of 1% of what it would cost to go from a drawing to a flight test of a vehicle...IF you kept the program Extremely cheap.

[@peartree460]

Would it be that hard to make it an X wing

[@tripham9422]

Lidar tech would be good in some xase specially update on strange cities mobile cities movable island

[@cokycoffee5882]

🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️

[@jenuilmajulus5586]

👍👍👍

[@helioandrade2628]

Têm como traduzir para o português?

[@joser2034]

não se preocupe, é apenas um projeto 100 anos à frente dos Estados Unidos, mas teme-se que se desintegre assim que decolar.você não perde nada de interessante. ;)

[@grumpyoldfart3891]

This new plane is so secret that I had to go online to see it.

[@joser2034]

yes is secret, but shtttt! they sell the blue prints and parts in amazon !

[@jaysartori9032]

Why limit at mark 5 why not push the limit to mark 12?

[@jasonfalcon4052]

When they find out what I know there going to freak out. Plus can’t tell me the Falcon 9 wasn’t named after me. Pro R,C Avant FX flying like 5,000 feet if not why higher. To auto landing pirouette flipping to sliding backwards to my feet.

[@tripham9422]

The jet alone impossible to get hypersonic speed but inertia steam boiler and water ejection large mass can get to speed if replenish water in flight can do at high altitude above 100,000 ft

[@tentimesful]

lol USA pilots were complaining of F22 at mach 2.2, mach 5 they would cry

[@normandlemire7566]

Just sr-71 ,nothing on sr-72 ? ...

[@ericclausen6772]

I'd rather fly a triangle that I am seeing on a daily basis

[@tigerseye73]

Its so top secret you know all about it. Right...

[@rudyhortelano7752]

Go GO AMERICA,,FREEDOM FIGHTER,,,FOR D PEOPLE LOVING DEMOCRACY

[@cynicalchimp107]

Nobody around here has never heard of Darkstar?

[@afendiayob5077]

Dia sungguh hebat dia tahan missel by juburnya...Tun pernah tengok tak ini tun....moto kerjayanya....ser jubur ser relah.ser belah....kalau Jepun 5 s mereka berjaya tun...5 draham uang Emas..dlm stornya.

[@shanemelton807]

That was two different planes,sr71,and the faster a model.

[@williamcrislerjr9699]

Cryptic secret clearance has more advanced technology systems

[@joelbell9082]

If the jet can travel at 6 times the speed of sound The Russians have Hypersonic missiles that travel 27 times the speed of sound if they truly indeed have missiles that travel at that speed they definitely can destroy that aircraft

[@joser2034]

well they need faster jets for run away from missiles , I mean if they can !

[@frankcrawford416]

We are way ahead of the russians now in hypersonics.

[@hifinsword]

@@joser2034 You don't need missiles when you have lasers.

[@plainolefk7554]

Yeah, but it all depends on where we station them at👀 hope we keep that a secret 💯 they could be right in Russia face but, if our intelligence don't say nothing I'm not telling Ole russki where they are 🤣 hit em then take my ass home and have a cold one or two ✌️🏴‍☠️

[@geimenberg1718]

Flares exist. So does dodging missiles

[@ivancarrasquillo4577]

[@burntsider8457]

"...more invisible..."?

[@samankumara167]

Oh the hollywood film lol 😂

[@jameandthegiantpeach2273]

...👍

[@rafaelrecasens9823]

Hosti,hosti !!!!!!

[@user-tv5jw1tj1r]

Ой.как страшно...hah...the mind is endless...металлолом...

[@brandonsprague2709]

It’s sr 71 genius

[@Nathan-xm5pu]

Top secret but we can watch at youtube channe 😂😂😂👌🏼

[@ericclausen6772]

Hell gas one up and let me fly one come on please

[@physicsbystanprisajny6284]

= a ventilator in russian, = a warp drive also? = for top gun?

[@vlogkylee7382]

Top secret put on KZbin. No more secret lol.

[@jeanmoulin2503]

Something doesn't exist by the moment.