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quarter. It was a rare win. So Kelly approved my idea of painting the airplane black, and by the time our first prototype rolled out the airplane became known as the Blackbird. Our supplier, Titanium Metals Corporation, had only limited reserves of the precious alloy, so the CIA conducted a worldwide search and, using third parties and dummy
... See moreLeo Janos • Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
Was bored so decided to redesign it.
P-3Cs are cool, they can linger on for hours, fly extremely low and can sniff out Sindhughoshes, Kalveris, Shishumurs and Arihants, while still being able to sink nilgiris and karmotas using anti ship missiles.
Hi Res: https://t.co/DSUJ7i6Bep https://t.co/6MxlOveg0u
Do you know how America always seems to know about every missile launched?
This is How.
Meet the RC-135S Cobra Ball. America’s eye in the sky for ballistic missile tracking. With only 3 in existence, it's one of the rarest ISR platforms ever built. Infographic Below. https://t.co/psVRysEnT1
***UPDATE***
Notable #Ukrainian drone strike ongoing in Belgorod, #Russia, using jet powered drones, like cheap cruise missiles.
Main candidates are a Ukrainian jet drone (black one below, https://t.co/6E4h1hmeUt), or British built Banshee.
1/n 🧵... See more
With Its First Flight Ever in 1964, the SR-71 Was the Most Impressive Plane of Its Time
popularmechanics.com
Kelly Johnson: The Swede Who Transformed American Air Power
nationalinterest.org
For an aircraft that’s supposed to be secret, it sure loves flying out of one of the busiest airports in India...
Meet the ELTA ELI-3150. R&AW’s airborne wiretap, flies out of Delhi in broad daylight.
SIGINT, SAR, LOROP.
Everything but secrecy.
Hangar: 28°33'13"N 77°07'03"E... See more