When a SR-71 Blackbird plane is detected by a North Korean radar, the crew receive a "fake missile" response. Or at least that's what they think. From: PLANES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: SR-71 Blackbird bit.ly/1gMS1D7
It's probably one of the greatest designs in history, I remember getting to see one in Dayton's museum and I was surprised at how small the SR71 is in reality.
+ewandougie Planes are so different in reality. I walked into an air museum in Manchester, England and I was amazed when I saw an English EE right at the doorway. It was HUGE! I had to triple check to see if it was the right plane haha.
Lim Ming Quan Tango Nation by EE do u mean Lightning? They have an SR71 at Duxford and although technically impressive I have to say nothing can beat the B 52 on display there for creating an impression. 👍🇬🇧
Are you guys kidding? the SR71 leaks like a mf on the ground. After takeoff it *has* to be refueled. The gaskets expand at cruising altitude to seal the leaks. There are much better planes out there for recon now...
North Korea *launches nuke towards U.S.* U.S: *yo wtf man* North Korea: *It's just a prank /social experiment man* U.S.: *OH I understand, we're cool bro*
It wasn’t standard protocol for an SR-71 to “out-maneuver” a missle. This thing could cruise at 2,000+ mph. It was standard to literally just...hit the burners and outrun it.
By the time either of those missiles reached that altitude, the sr71 would be out of their airspace already and the missile would run out of propulsion.
@@rawradio9549 lol north Korea's doing the calculations fast enough before the aircraft was out of reach. That county uses bi planes and guns made in the 1940's.
@@TheDealer6373 Certainly was not the first time so anticipation is a thing. Probably it happened a hundred times before. They can live in wood houses but they have thousands of slaves developing missile solutions. Exactly because of that technological abyss it would be dumb of them trying to really shot down a Blackbird, but it doesn't mean impossible (like almost everyone here on the "videogame geopolitics" department strongly believes). There's a reason why they haven't been invaded. Perhaps that SR-71 found out the reason. Go figure. PS: By 2020 American Military still lossing people against angry farmers using 1940 guns. Never understimate your oponent. People who fights real wars know this really well. Ask them.
Nope, the North Koreans were just trying to shoot down an alien aircraft that was tracking their SR71. Don't you guys watch the History channel, they taught me all about this incident!
It can only outrun it if the missile was fired at it from behind. If the missile was fired from ahead of the plane, then missile can easily close. SR71 at altitude cannot turn easily. You can hit a car with a paper airplane... provided you are throwing the paper airplane from in front of the car. As long as the 1500mph puts the missile in front of the SR71, the plane can't outrun it.
Because the scuttle the missile on purpose once it hits certain parameters, it can hit those parameters so it can hit the US due to just sheer momentum, once that's done, they just dump it into the ocean so it doesn't hit anything.
Wow you learn something new everyday and yeah it is possible thanks for the information I never count the possibility of them firing more than one missile and at the time the North Korean missile defense was pretty modern it is not modern now but at the time that black birds were flying they were pretty modern because of the relationship North Korea had with the Soviet Union there's two counters you have to encounter the time and how many missiles they can fire I never counter those factors and I love making wartime production so this gives me more information on how to do it so thanks
When I saw the SR-71 in around 2000. I first thought it was a prototype for a future space plane. It's the coolest flying object ever built. That we know of.
The Millennium Blackbird, most well-known ship in all of Air Wars. Cleared the NK Run in 12 parsecs, and had to avoid the dreaded Russian air destroyers.
Yes. That's how high sr71 flys. It's a spy plane. It has to he that high to avoid detection and to map out the target accurately. And because of how fats it is
Of course Americans don’t care. If they did... they’d realized that they were the ones that started more wars in the last 75 years _THAN ALL OTHER NATIONS COMBINED!!!_
Scared to death when this happened, I was assigned to the 18 AGS on Kadena AFB Okinawa and was TDY on F15 alert duty at Osan AFB Korea. AFSC 46250, when we launched our birds we had no idea what was happening… sometimes it’s good not to know….
+cpawp ....obviously it was since they crew not only got it on radar but saw it @2:13"a radar guided surface to air missile is racing through the air at 1,500 mph"....."about that time is when i actually picked the missile up"...."once i had a good visual and i could see it"... so, unless they and they equipment were all hallucinating.... ;-)
Swavy socrazy that game was based on real missions, like most of Call of Duty, Black ops 1 were all declassified real situations from the "bay of pigs", mission in Cuba, that was actual documented missions to take down Castro, and Vietnam war
The North Koreans are like Wiley E Coyote from the Looney Tunes cartoons and the SR-71 is like the Road Runner. North Korea knows it's there, tries to go after it, but the Road Runner just says Beep Beep and flies away.
I was stationed in Korea in 1981 with an Air CAV unit near the DMZ when this occurred. NK said they were within 15 seconds of taking out the Blackbird... an USAF Spokesman chuckled and said 20 miles is NOT close.
+Mahinthan So (MAHI) Happened when Reagan was president. The USAF sent a team to Okinawa to interview the pilot and determined he was accurately reporting the incident. F15s were moved to Korea in response to the event. The RSO verified the missile talk to the ground (respond) and the pilot saw the missile. It happened, but there is no video of it.
SilentNinja it was radar not fcking heat lol hahahahahahaha you would have to drop ecm it's kinda like aluminum foil pieces but those planes are made not to get seen so they don't equip them with countermeasure things
ah radar, I honestly don't know much about modern military technology, I'm more into ww1 and ww2 technology but thanks for the replies :) hope you have a good day!
NK has MANY Surface to Air Missiles - these are not the same as the more sophisticated Surface to Surface ones which they have not had successes with...
What probably happened is the programmed the missile to hit a projected point based on radar contact believing the spy plane had reached max speed after being painted but the plane adjusted course and speed without enough time for the missile to adjust course. Or they was exercising April fools
The SR-71 Blackbird isn't necessarily a "Spy plane" more like a Mach capable high altitude shuttle. Also, they were and probably still are very hard to catch on even the most advanced radar installations.
...@TheBananaEmpire.. here let me just go over a few things. It's confirmed the SR-71 was a direct replacement to the U-2 which had taken parts in direct reconnaisance.. secondly? The thing flew so fast as the primary idea was to be outrun and fly higher than any other aircraft of its time- as well as missiles, thirdly.. the thing had like eighty feet of camera tape within for the mile wide and long pictures it took which were indeed for its main mission of recon, though it was also used as a signal once or twice. Fourthly, if it was a shuttle it would be carrying a payload or crew to a specific point as its main purpose.. seems like a waste to make a shuttle that can't even get into a suborbital trajectory or carry more than two who are focused on operating their instruments to you know.. evade detection.. and take pictures.. which is.. you know.. spying?
You have a point, but the plane's main focus wasn't "Spy Plane". It was a mach capable high altitude aircraft with almost no radar detection-ability. Yes, it is used as a spy plane, but it's main focus isn't necessarily just that. All i was trying to say.
I think they were going over the DMZ (demilitarized zone) where north korea and south korea meet and were making sure no one was firing at each other, considering both north and south korea are technically still at war they just have a korean armistice agreement (this is not a treaty meaning they are not at peace yet)
it was a spy plane they fly over north Korea to make sure they don't do dumb shit like create a nuclear bomb and this was also during the Korean to cold war so it was normal
I dressed the SR-71 crewmembers at Kadena AFB Okinawa during this time period. Some of the crews were anxious. Others were not. I kept our conversations professional but light. Like is was a normal everyday mission.
If it was not that the bird was so high in the atmosphere it could have Jinxed for a few seconds and make that missile bleed its kinetic energy and burn out its fuel. Very cool video.
Pilot1: buzz CIA November-kilo air comms Pilot2: CIA November-kilo this is bravo-bravo322 abort strike package vector...I repeat abort! Pilot2: can hear laughter sir *(Missile explodes in mid air)
