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for anyone who wants to know, that jet is the SR-71. The first stealth jet....that we're allowed to know about...the fastest jet that got real use...as far as we're allowed to know. I heard about the SR-72 on a youtube video.
the SR-72 is going to be WAY faster, over 1 mile per second and the missile it's going to be able to launch doesn't have any explosives, it hits so fast and so hard that it doesn't need explosives to blow things up
Mach 4.6 is about 1 mile per second and they said on that video that the top speed of the SR-72 is going to bbe around mach 5. which means the missile it launches is going to accelerate from starting at that speed
I hope to God we never have to use it, but with mutually assured destruction and all that we need to have it as a deterrent...which is probably why we're allowed to even know about it right now
It had radar absorbing paint which helped reduce the radar cross section, but it wasn’t stealth.
all stealth aircraft have one form or another of that.
There's stealth drones too, like the Sentinel, the Predator and the Reaper are stealth by accident. "A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one"
Reaper is not stealth at all.
Stealth by accident, because of its shape it gives a very small radar signature
Quite the opposite, its shape is very radar reflective. It also makes a ton of noise.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. Drone bombings under obama were happening so often that they ran out of bombs, and only 1 drone was ever shot down
let me just put that into perspective for you. Under obama the military ran out of ammo for one of their weapons because they were using it THAT MUCH
also, there's the factor of the size too, reaper drones are very small compared to a lot of other aircraft that radar would normally detect