Finally! US Air Force Declared SR-72 DARKSTAR Is REAL! 

there wasn't much room for improvement. the only three things the 71 needs to transform into the 72, is higher heat capable materials to withstand the friction heat, fix the fuel leaking problem, & replace the engines with ram jets.

@@prepareuranus8097 I’ll bet Skunk Works engineers would be rolling off their chairs laughing at your characterization of those as “only three things”. You forgot one more, capability to remote control around the world, both at top speed and the likely neccessary refueling.

The fuel leaked intentionally. @@prepareuranus8097

We have no idea what any SR-71 successor looks like (if one indeed does/has ever existed) beyond our imaginations! You do realize what you see in this video are artistic interpretations and guessing? Physics and purpose may indeed give an SR-71 some visual similarities, but who really knows beyond people with very high security clearance who would not be talking about on RU-vid!

@@Dylanear Thank you for that. I was taken in by the clickbate headline then looked again and indeed I find nothing that says that the Air Force has Declared SR72 Real. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. i'll not come back to this channel again

I guess no one should be surprised really. Still, they earned a downvote.

it will exist only when they finish it, not unitl then, not even the prototype

They usually don't admit to anything this classified. They've never admitted the Aurora existed. But that was the plane that retired the Blackbird.

@@paulmurgatroyd6372 don't even give them a down vote. It still counts as activity so they get credit for it.

I blocked this and all clickbait channels.

Definitely recommend visiting the blackbird air park in Palmdale, or Castle air museum in Merced.

If you get a chance, go visit the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. There are two SR-71s on display there. One of them, in an annex to the museum on the air base, has a Distinguished Flying Cross painted on it. That was the one that captured and returned the absolute speed record to America. There are many beautiful airplanes housed there. It is well worth the trip.

Yeah....ya' tend to remember that kind of stuff. 🎉

Saw one take off from Miramar NAS San Diego while driving past on the freeway. It looked to be headed up at close to 45°. Unforgettable!

lots of changes since then.

Unfortunately so

I knew it was but wanted to come shit on the top gun movie.

Fr 😂

you are click bait

The SR-72 (might not be its actual designation) is real. The question is whether it’s manned or unmanned. So I don’t think the title is clickbait

high altitude reconnaissance I guess.

Subsonic vs Supersonic.

How about a Corvair and a Corsair?

Or literally out of this world... I think not. People use the word "literally" too loosely. 😂

@@jacqueshollands5630 The "out of this world" part was actually literal for ~5 years. We've since more accurately defined the border between "space" and high altitude - we kept finding air higher and higher back then. Blackbird herself pushed the border between atmosphere and space up higher twice - you have to remember, Blackbird's design work was done in the "Gemini" era, and she was put into service smack dab in the middle of the "Apollo" era.

I only saw it fly once but I cuncure completely. I drove up to Beale for one of, maybe the, last time it would fly other than the NASA plane that was in service a bit longer. He made a high speed pass over the base which I thought would be boring due to the altitude. I was wrong. That thing still looked fast even at however many 10s of thousands of feet. We could not get to the airport because of the crowds but saw a group stanging on a hill. We decided to join them and it turned out it was perhaps 100 ft to the side of the touchdown end of the runway. In many ways a lot better view than if we had gotten on base. A guy had a radio that was picking up the pilot communications so we heard him flying overhead and calling the start of his turn and slowdown to return for a couple of low level passes. Then we heard him call “over the Farallon Islands” 132 miles away. One thing it wasn’t good at is turning.on a dime. The low passes had him fly by us with the close wing low in a shallow turn lining up with the runway and very low. The pilot was clearly visible in the cockpit. What an amazingly beautiful airplane. One of the highlights of my life.

The SR-71 engine was the P&W J58, The GE J79 was used in the F-104 Star fighter and F-4 Phantom, among other planes.

I used to refuel the SR71 in the late 70's and early 80's. What people at the air shows never knew is that, often, they would fly real word missions at night at the air show bases because the permanent SR bases were monitored quite well by the Soviets. We would bring a portable fuel cart with hoses and a filter on it. One end was hooked up to a KC135Q and the other the SR71. A portable lab was also brought to test the fuel. The first air show I ever worked at none of us knew about this and we went drinking after the show. The chief showed up at the motel and said let's go. Surprise surprise. We gad to sober up quickly.

@@Skymedc If I remember correctly the SR71 was operational years before it was acknowledged to be real. If so it begs the question is the SR72 actually operational now and has it been for some time? There have been stories of sightings of an aircraft flying hypersonic speeds for a long time, and I believe those sightings even used the name Darkstar.

@@billpennock8585 I don't know. It's possible I guess. I work as a contractor on a Navy flight line and have not seen or heard of anything like that yet. Haven't seen a contrail like what I used to see when the SR71 was around. I was in the Air Force still when the F117 came out. None of us had ever seen one, but Revell came out with a model that looked exactly like it. We all thought that was pretty funny.

Even in a SR that's a 90 min flight. A bit early to be requesting landing clearance. Plue Beale or Edwards already know when you will be there. Wish this posts title was real but it is just clic bait.

One can make the argument that if the U2 had not been shot down, the SR-71 would have never been made.

Maybe he ment the band U2, as similar..?

Corvette and a chuckwagon might be closer.

Porsche and VW would be a more apt comparison as both the U-2 and the A-12/YF-12/SR-71 were made by the Lockheed Skunkworks under the design lead of Kelly Johnson. They were VERY different aircraft to be sure, but they were, at the very least cousins, if not sisters, just very different sisters! They both had the same dad for damn sure! Kelly Johnson was absolutely key to the existence and design of both aircraft.

Well considering the U2 is still in service today, & is definitely VW grade compared to sr71 Porsche is kinda spot on, every part is a one off for the U2 & royal PITA no 2 planes are identical. But SR71 retired because there was a replacement FYI

Let’s thank that UFO 🛸 Roswell Crash 💥 for the technology that skyrocketed our military aircraft afterwards… SR-71 Blackbird, B2 Stealth Bomber… U2 Spyplane… F-22 Raptor… 👽🛸🫢🤫🫡

Two world wars and a cold war were a big help boosting development....

Alien tech

Funny you say that about the wright brothers. I served with the SR-71's Air refueling wing at march AFB in the late 70s. And now i live in Dayton Ohio home of the wright Bros. Lol

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Alex Hollings is the man

It's been out since the 80's- 90's called the Aurora Mach 5 replaced the Mach 3.5 SR71. U2 was brought out of storage at that time as a cover. They have built or close to finish building a hypersonic AI drone unmanned spy plane to replace the Aurora.

I try not to talk about things I know because of where I work, but we don’t retire an aircraft unless we have something to replace its role! Non the less I can’t wait for an actual unavailing of the SR72, see what my hard work went into. Very rarely get to see finished product of what we work on.

You're wrong about the Kinzhal being debunked, there was footage of one striking its target the footage was less than 2 seconds and was calculated at just over 29,000 klm's an hour and mathematicians were astounded. The only reason why American's debunk it is they have not yet worked out how to stay in contact with a missile in its plasma state and have yet to come up with shielding materials, which Russia have overcome. The avenguard is the meanest beast of all, and that one is a nuclear-powered missile that can fly for 3 weeks straight. While I believe Lockheed has the engine, they have not figured out plasma state, which the Russian's have. Before you ask for proof, look for it yourself and for goodness sakes do not bother with Bing, Google and Yahoo as search engines, they're crap.

@@johntaylor3298 what search engine do you recommend them?

The "someone" was Steve Douglass, a longtime stealth watcher and enthusiast of black project aircraft.

@@aliensporebombthank you! I remember listening to Art Bell talking about it live one night but it was so long ago I couldn't remember the details. I miss those days and the old Coast to Coast with Art.

Yeah, NASA’s new “quiet supersonic” plane doesn’t have a windshield. It uses a camera and display instead.

It’s probably pilotless because maneuvering at such high speeds would cause bodily harm to a pilot.

It's what happens when you gather every mad genius engineer in the US, throw them together in a circus tent, and paint a cartoon logo of a skunk on it. "They built a fusion reactor once to save a few bucks on power. Go America!" Lazerpig

@@reidboggs4344 one does not fly 4000 mph and pull 9 g's it would break the plane apart but rather you would make more gentle course corrections as to not destroy your aircraft, its not a fighter.

@@Csilk You are correct if you are thinking about the materials and technology that are made public. There are things not made public for a reason.

I paused here too for a laugh!

Even then, what you see is a dummy. So does it exist?

@@smacksman1 apparently its been announced by the US Air Force.

If they're letting us know, it's already flying. We never knew of the A12, until the late 80s, while it, the SR71, YF12, and MD21 all flew in between.

@@williamvoorhees8201 im still tripping out on that nasa one they just announced, it doesnt produce a sonic boom.

Since they can't really open an underside bomb bay door at hypersonic speeds, I was wondering about some kind ejection system out the back. Interesting that they've tried it before! I've never heard of the A-5 before either, so that was an interesting read.

I wonder if the SR72 could have "bomb pods" of some sort sculpted into the bottom of the air craft so that smart bombs could be ejected out the back and satellite GPS guided to their target?

Or just slow down and dump it....................duh...........

20 miles an hour and 300 feet off the ground? Sounds like someones pedal bike in the sky.

@@aliensporebomb: it was way too big for that. I know the U S Navy has a stealth blimp but the shape was more aircraft. My son died so I don't have a witness.

I had same thought!

Or they could just slow down to Mach 1.1 say for a few seconds to accurately target the object, release, and accelerate away, all safely from 80,000 feet.

yeah, pooping is the answer

that was in the 80s. I was in Quam for about 3 weeds with the air national quard. I was a sales guy in Mongtana & one of my clients had a son thee. He was an F4 fighter pilot.I was hoping to be a VIP enough to get a ride. Unfortunately that did not happen but as we (the pilot) I were leaving the tarmac, we watched the SR71 take off. I did not see them when I was at Kadena.@@geodio5646

He turned the Skunkworks over to good hands . His successor was Ben Rich, who in his book after retiring, said they had the technology to take ET home. Don't know who runs it now , but they are moving the operation to Lockheed Martin in Ga.

@@thomasblankinship98 That was a great book!

And two were M-21s to carry the D-21 drone. An M-21 can be seen at the Seattle Museum of Flight.

It's astounding that Johnson and the team at Lockheed had to INVENT the tools to even make the plane!! Back in the 60's no less! Unbelievable...

I had a pretty bright bro-in-law when they retired the SR-71. He traveled internationally & spoke several languages working for Motorola & was very knowledgeable about the military. He said it's retired because they can use satelites. I said it's retired because they have something faster. 1 of our other bro-in-laws later stated that the 1st was really CIA, so why would he tell the truth? LOL

4 hours flight for SR-71 - means go from Anchorage to Rio de Janeiro Just not enough to " could photograph the entire world in four hours." 😂 .

There are than just the base at Beal AFB. There are three bases

I knew 2 lifetime USAF pilots who years ago both said: we have weapons no one will ever see unless WW 3 happens. And then some foolish enemy country is going to get wasted.

@@nickcasto8009 That's what I'm talking about brother.

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@@nickcasto8009 cringe

Back in the early 90s ,I was working on my Neighbor's Farm putting hay up into the hayloft . I was working with one of my Brothers at the time and we had just finished up a wagon load. We were waiting for another load when We heard a very deep jet engine sound . We looked up and both saw an SR71 as it was just below and behind another aircraft. It was refueling and taking on fuel from a KC135 Stratotanker ( basically looks a Boeing 707 with some differences) . It was so cool seeing that ! After what seemed to be like 10-15 seconds ,the SR71 dropped back to clear the KC135 , sped up ,and then roared upward and was GONE in a mighty roar . That KC135 seemed so slow as it lumbered along but that thing was probably going a good 500 or so miles per hour .

@@MichaelTheoret Yeah, apparently the KC135s had to fly near their maximum speed and the SR71s were barely above their stall speed to get the job done.

Yes, had they known it would have been virtually impossible to get the metal. The Russians have the world’s largest titanium ore deposits.

@@geodio5646 Had not heard that before. I assume that the titanium was somehow incompatible with human body chemistry. Sounds sort of alien-like, doesn’t it?

@@geodio5646 Spend any time at Groom Lake?

You are talking about DRFM jamming, that isn't limited to two false targets but as many as wanted. The technology creates a identical radar return signal (echo/reflection) that will be delayed or advanced stronger than real signal. This is what a frequency hopping technique try to avoid by altering frequency that predictive signal can't be generated so easily as jammer doesn't know what frequency is the future signal to be, and as post signal the stronger echo can be ignored.

Thats awesome! I remember a story about a flight where the pilot used it and evaded but it was so long ago I can't remember the source.@@paristo

There are people working on hypersonic SAM’s…

@@deeann8923 holy-

The Vigilante bomb system never worked. More likely it would be more like the D-21 launching from a hardpoint in powered flight to allow a clean separation without opening any part of the mothership. Vigilante had to jettison itts tail cone to deliver its bomb and at hypersonic speeds in Darkstar that would probably be catastrophic stress to the airframe to do the same. Note that unlike D-12 Darkstar would likely carry its drone/bomb (really a cruise missile or recon drone) below to avoid the issue that made Oxcart so dangerous by launching between the tails of the mothership.

@@larrybremer4930 thanks - did not know Vigilante system did not work Doesn’t suspension from a hard point compromise low radar return?

@@larrybremer4930Actually, it was not so much that the Vigilante’s bomb ejection system didn’t work, it was more because it was a carrier-launched aircraft that carried auxiliary fuel tanks behind the actual bomb (nuclear, I might add) which had a habit of departing the aircraft during the catapult launch. Considering that system was engineered in the mid-50s, nearly 70 years ago, and the SR-72 would be land based, it is not inconceivable that a similar approach could be perfected today.

@@Primus54 I would agree its not inconceivable but from an aerodynamic standpoint its nearly so since this big vacant hole where the bomb ejects from would have a massive disturbed airflow and drag penalty associated with it. The hole would have to close up with a cone, which is also possible but how do you open that cone at mach 6+ without tearing it off the aircraft or having it become a massive airbrake? Using a centerline hardpoint launching an airbreathing hypersonic cruise missile makes much more sense but is also a massive technical challenge to mitigate having it strike the launching aircraft when dealing such high Q loads.

@@larrybremer4930 A properly shaped hydraulic device that can eject the bomb could continue to extend to the exit thereby closing the opening after the ejection. Given the hyper-speed of the aircraft it makes more engineering sense to develop a method to eject ordnance horizontally than vertically.