In the 1960s, the Air Force developed a plane that could travel more than three times as fast as the sound produced by its own engines. The SR-71 Blackbird’s incredible speed enabled it to gather intelligence in a matter of seconds while streaking across unfriendly skies at over Mach 3 at eighty thousand feet.Rico says it must've really pissed them all off to miss...
On the off-chance that an enemy tried to shoot it down with a missile, all the Blackbird had to do was speed up and outrun it, as it was far faster than any missile that could be fired at it.
The SR-71 served with the Air Force from 1964 to 1998. A total of thirty-two aircraft were built; twelve were lost in accidents, but none to enemy action. This was not for lack of trying; over the course of its reconnaissance missions during the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese fired approximately eight hundred SAMs at SR-71s, none of which managed to score a hit. But North Vietnam wasn’t the only country to try and shoot down a blackbird, there were four other countries who tried, too. Check out the video above to find out more!
09 July 2016
Oops, missed
War History Online has an article by Joris Nieuwint about the Blackbird:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment