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Having family and friends deep in the industry, and a dad, grandfather, uncle and grandmother who worked at Lockheed and specifically the Skunk Works - this is
by whalesalad 5y ago
Having family and friends deep in the industry, and a dad, grandfather, uncle and grandmother who worked at Lockheed and specifically the Skunk Works - this is not real. This stuff gets made up all the time.
The real stuff being done at the Skunk Works is not stuff you will ever ever hear about.
- uniqueuid 5y agoCongratulations on an interesting family then! I guess the public will eventually learn some things. Personally, I'm not so much concerned about technology that I don't see as much as about technology that is cheap and effective enough to be out there: remote controlled sniper rifles, bomb-dropping drones, chemical weapons.
- whalesalad 5y agoI don’t know the good stuff either. I know stuff that’s been unclassified but everything else is a mystery to me as well. My family has great stories but they are also committed to the integrity of the mission.
- atonse 5y agoHave you read the article about how Israel remotely assassinated an Iranian nuclear scientist? [1] Not a sniper rifle but remotely controlled and AI assisted. It was right out of a movie. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-fakhrizadeh-assassination-israel.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuc...
- uniqueuid 5y agoYes that's what I was referring to. It seems we are catching up to some scifi fast. Let's hope it's not the Daniel Suarez version.
- rich_sasha 5y agoThat's what I would say too if in fact all I had was an Iranian cooperative, or Israelis on the ground.
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- poisonarena 5y agomy uncle works at nintendo and he confirms its real
- enkid 5y agoWe know the US is working on hypersonic weapons. It makes a lot of sense to put that same technology in a reusable UAS. This doesn't seem like such a stretch as to be instantly dismissed. I would take reports about it with a grain of salt, and the SR-72 designation is there to grab headlines, either from the news source or Lockheed Martin, but it's very feasible for them to be building the thing described in the article.
- whalesalad 5y agoYou are correct. Hypersonic, autonomous aircraft and weapons? Yes. Will it be the SR-72? No.
- enkid 5y agoSo is your problem the designation, or the actual concept that is being developed? Because, frankly, who cares what it's called. The important thing is what it can do.
- whalesalad 5y agoMy problem is with neither - it’s with the way the aviation community will jump on theories and build them up into big snowballs that are usually not even remotely close to reality or might even be talking about an aircraft that simply doesn’t exist. So I don’t get stoked about news headlines like this because generally it’s just fun masturbatory stuff that doesn’t hold a lot of truth in the real world.
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- colechristensen 5y agoA release like this has to be a chess move or entirely made up. You don’t just share weapons platform plans for no reason. You underpromise, overpromise, lie, brag, or misdirect in order to achieve some outcome. You see it and ask yourself “why?” and “how much is BS?”
- robotresearcher 5y agoWe've heard of at least: P-38, P-80, U-2, SR-71 (etc), F-117, F-22, and F-35 have they stopped making things we will hear about?