Posted on 07/17/2019 9:50:59 PM PDT by bitt
But dont you feel the need, the need for speed?
Satellites do not provide 100% coverage at all times of the day and night.
You still need multiple layers of surveillance.
Does this look like one of the NASP concepts from the early ‘90s?
“orbital and sub-orbital vehicles offer entirely different capabilities and inefficiencies. SR-72 promises an on-demand spy platform, immune from spy-satellite attack, not to mention potential as a weapons platform. “
Now, imagine if these birds could take of and land on aircraft carriers. Add laser weapons capability to it and now you have something that travels at 4,500 MPH that can fry pretty much anything it wants to. That’s a real “predator.”
“So you know when to hide your stuff from overhead satellite reconnaissance.”
There might be enough satellites up there such that at least one is able to spy on you at any given time.
With regards to your statements, I’ve often wondered why so much of our navigation technology is GPS satellite based. When all this stuff gets destroyed in the first few days of a war along with all the computerized electronics being hacked, many of our weapons and vehicles will be literally useless.
Same goes with modern infrastructure.
Y2K type effects will be totally realized and we will be fighting each other for basic survival much like in the zombie shows.
I’m so happy I live in a state the lefties think of as a flyover wasteland that should have been made into a “buffalo commons” decades ago. And seriously, North Dakota was actually left out of a major map atlas several years back because the publishers thought no one wanted to visit there. Please, please keep on thinking this, lefties.
So this aircraft will be able to catch Putin’s Hypersonic missiles he now claims to have and which I read we have not yet made successfully because of heat problems with the casings at such speeds,guess maybe those problems have been solved if they have an aircraft that can handle it
Comments?
“With satellites and other orbital vehicles, why in the world do we need an SR-72?”
Satellites are in a predictable orbit. And, although they have fuel and can move, called “re-tasking,” that fuel is limited and has to last for years. Basically, they can only spot things that can’t be moved or hidden from view. If you need a real-time image of an evolving situation, you need aerial reconnaissance. If you’re a general, you don’t want to know what was going on behind enemy lines four hours ago. You need to know what they are doing now.
Lo and behold, this is almost EXACTLY the body design we had for the X-30 National Aerospace Plane back in 1990.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Larry+Schweikart+The+QUest+for+the+ORbital+Jet&ref=nb_sb_noss
Ha! You beat me to it. It is almost EXACTLY our final design in the project.
“Satellites and other orbital vehicles” are far, far more vulnerable than you might think - one of the reasons we’re turning to much smaller, simpler and less expensive cubesats/nanosats, which provide redundancy.
Ben Rich made a claim of using two Buick Wildcat 425 engines to start the J-58’s back then (during initial development and testing).
I can tell you they were still using the Wildcat starters operationally in 1972, though I heard they later went to something more conventional. Guess they ran out of Wildcat engines.
Thanks bitt. Gotta love variable inlet geometry. Oh, and systems that keep the windows from falling out in flight.
Supposedly, to get the nuclear weapons still on board. The claim is the one they found slipped out during the recovery and they never got it. Like they were going to tell us anyway.
Cool! Thanks!
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