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These generals were adept at communicating the value of the SR-71 to a USAF command staff and a Congress who often lacked a basic understanding of how the SR-71 worked and what it did. However, by the mid-1980s, these "SR-71 generals" all had retired, and a new generation of USAF generals had come to believe that the SR-71 had become redundant ...
The Lockheed Martin SR-72, colloquially referred to as "Son of Blackbird", [1] is an American hypersonic concept intended for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) proposed privately in 2013 by Lockheed Martin as a successor to the retired Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. In 2018, company executives said an SR-72 test vehicle could fly ...
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird; Initially developed as A-12 by Central Intelligence Agency; first flight took place at Groom Lake , Nevada, on 25 April 1962. USAF developed SR-71 from CIA design; first flight took place on 22 December 1964. Operational use of SR-71 began in 1968. Retired in 1989 due to budget reductions.
The Swedes, trained to intercept the SR-71, became one Blackbird’s guardians. Why Swedish Fighter Pilots Just Won Medals for a Top-Secret SR-71 Incident in 1987 Skip to main content
Brian Shul (8 February 1948 – 20 May 2023) was an American pilot and photographer. A Vietnam War-era attack pilot and a major in the United States Air Force (USAF), he flew 212 combat missions and was shot down near the end of the war.
The BGM-71 TOW is one of two missiles on this list of America’s oldest weapons still in service. Research and development of wire-guided missiles date back to the 1950s in France.
Sorry if I'm doing something wrong here, it's the first comment I've ever made on Wikipedia. 24.89.20.205 13:52, 6 November 2013 (UTC) Good question, and you did it right. The SR-71 was retired twice. The first time was in 1990, but 3 were reactivated in 1995, and then retired in 1998 for the last time.
An Axios/Ipsos poll found that 1 in 5 Americans don’t think they’ll ever retire — and a whopping 70% of that cohort say it’s because they simply can’t (or won’t be able to) afford it.