If designed by China yes.
>>65596238Yeah.
>>65596238Why mess with perfection?
>>65596238There are two issues with taking a Blackbird above Mach 3.4. First, the inlet geometry becomes very vulnerable to unstarts above Mach 3.4 because the inlet cone runs out of adjustment and the termination shockwave is just about all the way out of the engine, which means that any yaw or AoA changes can result in single engine or dual engine unstarts, and this has caused airframe loss in the program in the past.The second issue is thermal management, above Mach 3.2, the airframe is absorbing heat faster than it can reject it, so while it can fly for literally hours at Mach 3 (with occasional slowdowns to refuel), above Mach 3.2, you’re on a timer to overheat issues.So it’d need new engines and a different/improved thermal management system if you wanted sustained performance above Mach 3.2 or peak speed above Mach 3.4.
>>65596313>ramjet inlets>thermal managementYes it'd require a redesign/re-conceptualization from ground up of the propulsion system and airframe structure. New-different planeThe existing A-12 original design pushed limits of both to 3.3, already(also the too big/heavy SR-71 can't reach 3.3, the A-12 could)
>>65596275gOOD jOKE aNON.
>>65596238Your vampire will still reach the deck of the carrier whether you fly Mach 3.2 or Mach 4.
>>65596238Where is the SR-72? It's been in development for longer than the B2 at this point, and that was Northrop's lifelong ambition.
>>65596711doesn't exist
>>65596275>c-china implessive!no, china not implessive, now stop seething.
>>65598834that series of pics of s/n 61-7980 the last SR-71A manufactured were taken May 1988 near Beale AFB in a fresh refurb paint job a year prior to USAF fleet retirement and that aircraft's reassignment to NASA flight research duties
What if we launched it out of a REAAAALLLYYYY big canon? Would it go mach 5 maybe??
>>65599533Hm, maybe if the canon were on top of a realy tal mountain or hil and pointed down a bit.
>>65596238We've already built things that exceed that, so there's no need to.
>>65599560What if we pushed it down a big skateboard ramp and got Tony Hawk to help
>>65599592What if charlie kirk was called gnarly kirk and he did a sick backflip coming off the half pipe?
Isn't the SR-71 top speed still classified?
>>65599620Nah back in 83 a Russian cop hit one with his radar gun that's how we know
imagine believing the Blackbird was retired kek. It's been flying as a drone testbed out of Groom Lake the whole time, they just swapped the fuel to a new endothermic blend. look up the 2023 Beale NOTAMs, I'll wait
>>65596238Could it? Probably. Should It? God no. Like the last thing the US needs is trying to reestablish and maintain a unicorn supply chain while also having to integrate new engines into it.
>>65599625That must have been the best day of his life.
>>65596238Yeah, just paint it red because red things go faster. Give it flames and it'll reach at least Mach 6
>>65599620Sure, but also they set time and distance records with her and inlet physics are what they are.
>>65596275so why didnt the chinese do it at the time? too busy killing sparrows and dying of starvation by the millions?
>>65601254Do the Chinese still trade dead children so they will not be embarrassed by eating their own relatives, or do they just say "Fuck it" now?
