Lockheed Martin Developing Successor To the SR-71 Blackbird 160
Zothecula writes "When the last SR-71 Blackbird was grounded in 1998 it was a double blow. Not only did aviation lose one of the most advanced aircraft ever built, but also one of the most beautiful. Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has now revealed that it is building a successor to the Blackbird: the SR-72. Using a new hypersonic engine design that combines turbines and ramjets, the company says that the unmanned SR-72 will be twice as fast as its predecessor with a cruising speed of Mach 6."
Faster then a speeding dupe (Score:5, Funny)
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/11/01/1911249/skunk-works-reveals-proposed-sr-71-successor-the-hypersonic-sr-72
Don't worry samzenpus - you're not as bad as timothy.
Re:this possibly means one of two things.. (Score:5, Funny)
=As a former soldier, I don't want them to cut funding for air conditioning. Operating in climates with 120 F for months at a time is pretty hard, and the computers and equipment starts failing.
If US soldiers were not deployed in places they have no business being in the
first place, the need for air conditioning would drop drastically.
You mean places like California?
Re:this possibly means one of two things.. (Score:5, Funny)
We dont need a war in california. Yes I disagree with everything California stands for but that is no reason to go to war there.