The Black Bird was bad ass

[likeitfast55]

The CIA developed a D-21 drone that went on TOP of the Blackbird and was one bad ass little plane. I think only a few(38) were built. Most crashed, one is on a Blackbird in Tunkwilla Washington(Boeing field).

http://www.sr-71.org/photogallery/blackbird/d-21/

[46Tbird]

SR get all the press! Check out the videos of the B-70. Notice how the paint is burned off too! We could do so much back then too. In today's U.S.A. it will never happen.

That's my favorite plane.

[46Tbird]

The Mig 25 came out before the XB70...

...but it still came after the specification was developed for a Mach 3 intercontinental bomber.

[garycrist]

SR get all the press! Check out the videos of the B-70. Notice how the paint is burned off too! We could do so much back then too. In today's U.S.A. it will never happen.

[likeitfast55]

About three times the thrust actually, and about five times the loaded weight. Since the question was about acceleration, and F=MA, the MiG-25 has a good chance of out-accelerating the SR71. That is assuming that we have the correct values, which we probably don't.

There may be high-speed unmanned stealth drones out there being used by the CIA, but it's a pretty safe bet that the Blackbird series are the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft that have ever been, or will be, developed.

Anyone that thinks that slightly-stealthy manned Mach-3 aircraft are capable of gaining better intelligence than satellites is out of their f'ing mind.

Not just the speed. The altitude was a factor as well. The SR-71 boasts of fl8000, and 3m. The mig25 was made to match the speed of the Blackbird but not the altitude.

They would take a high speed run at the SR-71 to max altitude(dam neer coffin corner stall their planes!) and then fire missiles (air to air). The air to air was indeed way faster then the SR-71,combined with the speed of the MIG-25 made the Blackbird vulnerable for the first time.
One of my previous airlines I worked for, we had a D.O. (Director of Operations) Ross S. that was a sled driver and this was told to a few of us over scotch one evening.

There were fewer SR-71 pilots than astronauts!

R

[pHILSANITY07]

The Mig 25 came out before the XB70...

I didnt know if that was true or not, if the rumor I heard is correct The Mig 25's engines are like a 1 time use engine. IDK if that is true or not.

[bottlerocket]

yea I think so too, but I think the Mig 25 was built for the XB-70. It would be interesting to watch cause the Max Speed of a MIg 25 is Mach 3.2. The SR-71 has a top speed of Mach 3.3. Thats what it says in Wikipedia. It might go even faster than that

The Mig 25 came out before the XB70...

[NoClassic]

Those stories from the pilots are so cool. I built its model as a kid and still have it to this day.

I cant agree that the aircraft has any place in modern ISR though.

Why move fast when they cant see you?

[46Tbird]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I tuned into Firefox the other day, about 2 seconds before we hopped up and stole the plane before they went on the chase. What a great movie...

[SS Junk]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[YALE]

yea I think so too, but I think the Mig 25 was built for the XB-70. It would be interesting to watch cause the Max Speed of a MIg 25 is Mach 3.2. The SR-71 has a top speed of Mach 3.3. Thats what it says in Wikipedia. It might go even faster than that

You are a thick bastard.

[46Tbird]

The comparison is illogical. An SR-71 has twice the thrust.

About three times the thrust actually, and about five times the loaded weight. Since the question was about acceleration, and F=MA, the MiG-25 has a good chance of out-accelerating the SR71. That is assuming that we have the correct values, which we probably don't.

There may be high-speed unmanned stealth drones out there being used by the CIA, but it's a pretty safe bet that the Blackbird series are the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft that have ever been, or will be, developed.

Anyone that thinks that slightly-stealthy manned Mach-3 aircraft are capable of gaining better intelligence than satellites is out of their f'ing mind.

[Denny]

yea I think so too, but I think the Mig 25 was built for the XB-70. It would be interesting to watch cause the Max Speed of a MIg 25 is Mach 3.2. The SR-71 has a top speed of Mach 3.3. Thats what it says in Wikipedia. It might go even faster than that

The sole purpose of the Mig 25 Foxbat was to fuck up the SR-71. The Russians "scored" some detailed intel about how fast the SR-71 was. I guess they forgot to carry the 2 on their calculations. LOL

They just made it a production Mig because they couldn't afford multipule models of Migs at the time (we were bankrupting them in the nuclear race and space race).

Russia was the one that invented the fart can exhaust:

[CJ]

yea I think so too, but I think the Mig 25 was built for the XB-70.

The comparison is illogical. An SR-71 has twice the thrust.

[pHILSANITY07]

The SR-71 would smoke the Mig-25.

yea I think so too, but I think the Mig 25 was built for the XB-70. It would be interesting to watch cause the Max Speed of a MIg 25 is Mach 3.2. The SR-71 has a top speed of Mach 3.3. Thats what it says in Wikipedia. It might go even faster than that