Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Lockheed Martin's mysterious SR-72 — the fastest plane ever" video.

  1. It is hard to believe that a computer was once the size of a building but today it is smaller than a penny and at some point will be the size of a biological cell.
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  2. Aurora is a budgetary title nothing else. It is unlikely to have been an aircraft but a collection of research projects.
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  3. +Bloodgod40 You are correct the SR71 was not released to the public until 20 years after its development. The SR2 is different in that it is intended to be a replacement for the SR71 and is not intended to be some super secret project. I would say there are probably things that the US military has that are similar to the SR71 in that they have not been released to the public yet.
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  4. The SR-72 is not going to show up in a big way on the national credit card. What does show up in a big way is the welfare expenditure that is now about 2 trillion per year.
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  5. +RF The purpose of such a craft would be to ensure that it cannot be shot down. The SR 71 could not be shot down so I would assume it is the same for this project. Radar system might not actually be capable of picking it up if it has some special stealth capabilities but if somehow it is detected getting a missile up there to intercept it would be exceptional complex. During the 60s,70s and 80s the Russians could do nothing about the SR-71 it was like a ghost to them and they were not even sure it was real.
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  6. No but it will enable the US military to do fly overs and nobody could do anything about it.
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  7. Aurora was probably not an aircraft program but was more than likely something else like engineering designs that went into aviation or some support system. Aurora was only a few billion dollars when these programs cost about hundred billion. Think about it the starwars project cost nearly 1.5 trillion and that is almost 30 years ago. Could you imagine the technology that was developed in that.
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  8. The aircraft is needed and that is the reason why it is being developed.
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