What we know about Lockheed Martin's mysterious SR-72(businessinsider.com)
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What we know about Lockheed Martin's mysterious SR-72
https://www.businessinsider.com/lockheed-martin-sr-72-fastest-plane-ever-71-blackbird-military-defense-tech-fastest-spy-plane-mach-2017-10
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Wow. A two year old video with no information whatsoever.
> for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and strike missions (wikipedia)
for the strike part, wouldn't it be better to use a satellite-based system, I would think it could reach any place on earth much faster given the initial velocity of being in orbit.
e.g. missiles/drones would be launched from a satellite at 8000m/s (17000 mph, 3/4 times faster than the SR-72), and they could be distributed globally. I'm just unsure about the descent phase but sounds like it would work out.
for the strike part, wouldn't it be better to use a satellite-based system, I would think it could reach any place on earth much faster given the initial velocity of being in orbit.
e.g. missiles/drones would be launched from a satellite at 8000m/s (17000 mph, 3/4 times faster than the SR-72), and they could be distributed globally. I'm just unsure about the descent phase but sounds like it would work out.
This is disappointingly little information.