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Beautiful aircraftThis is an excellent essay on Russian and American weapons development.
Along with the Vietnam War and Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), McNamara bequeathed the country the habit of canceling weapons systems because we could.
The two major victims were the B-70 Valkyrie and the GAM-87 Skybolt missile.
The B-70 was a remarkable aircraft, the sole example of a type flown only at that time and never since. Looking more like something out of “Trek” than an airplane designed in the 1950s, the B-70 was an eight-engine behemoth capable of cruising at 2,000 mph at an altitude of over 70,000 feet. And yet this beast of a machine was one of the most graceful airplanes ever designed, looking like a gigantic swan evolved in some biosphere far advanced over ours.
Much more of this interesting article @ https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/americas_junk_weapons.html
Doesn’t mean it was cost effective or practical in military applications
Many proposed aircraft have not made it to production