SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3.2 Bomber: Yes, the U.S. Air Force Could Have Flown It

SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3.2 Bomber: Yes, the U.S. Air Force Could Have Flown It

Summary and Key Points: The SR-71 Blackbird remains an aviation outlier—Mach 3.2 speed and extreme altitude made it a reconnaissance platform that could often avoid interception simply by outrunning threats. -Yet it was retired in 1997 because it was expensive to operate and increasingly redundant in an era when satellites and other ISR tools were […] The post SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3.2 Bomber: Yes, the U.S. Air Force Could Have Flown It appeared …