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@bushgreen260 Direct knowledge.
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@bushgreen260 The engines for example are gone, they were good for one flight only. The Avionics, gone. It was known that as technology caught up to the vision of the original program they would be retrofitted so all they needed was the airframes to act as advanced technology testbeds. They could have been pulled out of storage and tested rotary pulse detonation engines, electro optical skins that change color on the fly to blend into the sky around them making them visually stealthy. Advanced AI powered electronic warfare systems than can hack into enemy systems and inject malicious code into the system making their systems think they are tracking and targeting enemy aircraft when they are not. An entire new type of CPU that uses fiber optics instead of transistors. Using micro pulses of light to process information vs the inherent limitations of transistor technology. The airframes themselves are so radically advanced and cost so much to manufacture, that was the important thing to preserve.
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@bushgreen260 I had no part in the airframe itself so I don't know what it was made of. Things were pretty heavily compartmentalized back then, you worked on the area you were responsible for and didn't ask questions. As far as downtimes all I can say is that each prototype only flew every three to four months. As far as code names, I don't know, I was not on the budget committee. As far as altitude and range, again I could not say, I was never in the control room during flights and I knew better than to ask. If you did your clearance would be yanked and you would never work in the defense industry again. As far as the fiber optic CPU, I can say it was on order of many thousands times faster than a transiter CPU. I don't know who built it and I didn't ask.
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I can attest to the Aurora existing. Only three prototypes were ever built but they did fly at speeds just north of MACH 5.4. The problem was the technology was simply not ready at the time. While they could get it to fly, it is hideously expensive PER FLIGHT to operate the Aurora and it was deemed too expensive to continue the program in its current state. The three aircraft were dismantled and put in long term storage in 1998.
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