The pressure mounted to deliver the Blackbird to service on October 27, 1962 when, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, Air Force Major Rudolph Anderson was piloting a U-2 reconnaissance mission over Cuba and suffered a fatal injury from a Soviet surface-to-air strike. ...
By summer 1965, with the Vietnam War heating up, U.S. intelligence analysts grew concerned that the North Vietnamese would begin deploying Russian-made SA-2 surface-to-air missiles of the type that had brought down Gary Powers. Declassified records show that on June 3, 1965, Defense Secret...
By summer 1965, with the Vietnam War heating up, U.S. intelligence analysts grew concerned that the North Vietnamese would begin deploying Russian-made SA-2 surface-to-air missiles of the type that had brought down Gary Powers. Declassified records show that on June 3, 1965, Defense Secret...
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Because of the danger of a sudden loss in cabin pressure, the Blackbird's crew members wore pressure suits similar to astronaut suits. The U.S. military had needed a fighter jet that could out-maneuver interceptors and other surface-to-air missile systems, and in the Blackbird the USAF ...
Some of the world’s fastest submarines are nuclear-powered. They utilise nuclear reactors to generate steam that powers turbines and propellors, allowing the submarines to travel at high speed when submerged for longer durations without coming to the surface. ...
According to its mission profile and flight trajectory, the Parker Solar Probe is expected to reach 4.3 million miles to 3.8 million miles of the Sun’s surface during its final stages by the end of 2025. It will achieve that with an anticipated total velocity of more than 190 km/s. ...
China Invented an Invisibility Cloak for Drones New Underwater Nuclear Threats Against the U.S. A Chronological History of American Tanks Russia Says It Just Fired a New Hypersonic Weapon Only Drones Can Save the Modern Aircraft Carrier In a First, India Launches a Hypersonic Missile ...
Its also traveling laterally with respect to the earth which would increase the surface area causing drag which would increase the frictional heat generated. Not the best way to get up there. Edit: amtct wrote:Who needs wings ,if you can get an orbit you can stay there , then do what ...
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