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apparently "no Blackbird of any variety has ever flown over the landmass of Russia or China", according to former SR71 pilot Col. RH Graham. so we don't really
by modzu 8y ago
apparently "no Blackbird of any variety has ever flown over the landmass of Russia or China", according to former SR71 pilot Col. RH Graham.
so we don't really know if they have the capability, but after they downed the U2 in 1960, seems the US didn't want to find out empirically.
that said, you have to love this plane. it's a spaceship.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoI recall reading a story of flying an SR71 through the cloud from a Chinese nuclear test. We wanted to know if it was a fusion weapon or not. The Chinese sent up a fighter after it, and, well, it wasn't fast enough. It also had too low of a ceiling. Can't cite a source (I read about this, what, four decades ago?) so I can't prove it happened.