Lockheed Martin begins work on SR-72 next generation

The top technology of air reconnaissance

 

SR-72 next generation

At the time the plane SR-71 Blackbird, Blackbird, was the pinnacle of technology of air reconnaissance and observation. This smooth black car was the fastest "bird", which saw the sky of the Earth. SR-71 flew three times higher and faster than the fastest Airliners, peering down through their cameras, radars and other sensors. But from the moment the world and technology has stepped immeasurably farther, leaving the Blackbird is almost irrelevant. Modern reconnaissance technology consist of spy satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles stealth. These funds became the reason of resignation of the observation aircraft type SR-71. But, currently used technologies have their drawbacks, spy satellites, for example, easily tracked, allowing interested parties to take effective measures to conceal their actions. 

The Return Of The Blackbird

 

the pinnacle of technology of air reconnaissance

Stealth technology, though, and successfully used, but can't completely hide the aircraft from the watchful gaze of other technologies. These shortcomings create a so-called dead zones, where they can hide and act very bad people. The above-mentioned disadvantages of network reconnaissance and observation are the span that Lockheed Martin is going to fill a solemn return of the Blackbird, of course, not the aircraft SR-71, and his successor, plane SR-72, which will differ as heaven and earth from its predecessor. Like its predecessor, the SR-72 will also have two engines, only it will be not an ordinary jet engines, it will be hybrid engines that can operate as a traditional reactive and as hypersonic ramjet engines. This hybrid propulsion system will allow the plane SR-72 to accelerate to Mach 6, which is two times faster than the spy plane SR-71.

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Hypersonic and hybrid engines

 

Stealth technology

  This speed will be the main ridge of the plane SR-72 will be able to see the "bad guys" before they will be able to hide in the woods. In addition to reconnaissance and observation plane SR-72 will be able to spray point "surgical" strikes on a number of selected targets. Lockheed Martin plans to create the first fully functional prototype of the plane SR-72 to 2018. This is, without doubt, is a very tough schedule, especially given that hypersonic and hybrid engines are now only in the development stage and pilot tests, which are often unsuccessful. But if Lockheed Martin will be able to realize their plans, the world will have a new high speed weapon, the approach which will not be able to prevent any system and which would not catch and hit none of the currently existing missiles air-to-air and surface-to-air.