Hypersonic SR-72 spyplane demo spotted

[ScienceRocks]

Hypersonic SR-72 spyplane demo spotted
brian wang | September 29, 2017 |
A subscale demonstrator of the SR-72 hypersonic spyplane was reportedly spied at Lockheed’s facilities in California.

A proposed hypersonic reconnaissance and strike aircraft, the SR-72 would serve as a replacement for the famed SR-71 Blackbird, which was retired by the Air Force back in 1998. The SR-71 Blackbird could fly at 2200 mph (over 3 times the speed of sound).
Lockheed has said they are working on a combined-cycle engine. It uses both a turbine and a scramjet to achieve hypersonic speeds. Lockheed Martin is testing Aerojet Rocketdyne from 2013 to 2017. Two combined-cycle engines are planned to power the SR-72, which is designed to be about the same size of the SR-71 and could achieve first flight in the late 2020s.

Hypersonic SR-72 spyplane demo spotted | NextBigFuture.com

this is really cool

 

[Marion Morrison]

Phake Nooz. Also, if true, should not be reported in media.

Think on that a min..

 

[Old Rocks]

LOL Mid WW2, a science fiction magazine, Astounding Science Fiction, has a story in it in which they outline the building of the trigger for the atomic bomb. As outlined it is workable. The magazine is already out on the stands when this is discovered. They decide that attempting to pull all the copies in would only alert certain parties to it, so nothing is done.

Science follows certain developments. So that article may be fake and quite accurate. LOL