How US Military Spy Plane Drove the USSR Crazy

The best plane ever made, hands down nothing even comes close to how bad ass it was.

How u.s. made the inflation crazy ...

China gathered more intelligence than all the sr 71 spy flights combined with a balloon Joe Biden allowed them to slow fly over north america.

If it still flew today, the US would already have an even faster jet. The only reason they don't is because the tactic was deemed obsolete, which may or may not still be true.

Canada isn't part of the United States

Man just stole a whole video from infrographic show and got away with it. Title and everything 😂

SR-71 max altitude is 16 miles. Space is 50 miles above sea level.

this narrative is wildly historically inaccurate.

How the US antagonised another country like it usually does*

There fixed it

And Russia won the Cold War…the tsar bomba scared the fat yanks that much they backed off and begged for a treaty.

Why are your animations always so misleading? In the first minute you show West facing off against USSR, but dont bother to include the rest of the Warsav pact and then proceed to mention Iron curtain showing it begin directly at USSR borders despite it being at the borders of the Warsav pact. Why are you like this

Very strange that Aircraft technology peaked in the 60s

Haha, and Russia was never more than a wet paper tiger. In 1986 a german named Mathias Rust flew all the way to Moscow in a Cessna 162 and landed on The Red Square in downtown Moscow! Exposing their ridiculously poor anti aircraft installations, hahaa! This was in 1986..

In the map you forgot Greece and Turkey as a NATO members.

complete BS - the HABU did not over fly the Soviets since the early 70s, as they knew its time was limited.

A few times, SAM missles actually left debris on the outer hull - these were VERY near misses and the americans finally smartened up.

The USSR flew spy planes over the continental USA too. That's where all the "Roswell alien" stories come from. It was an attempt at covering up the embarrassment of Soviet spy planes over the USA. Also they didn't want to panic the US public.

They didn’t stop flying the SR71 before they had something to replace it. That aircraft was flying around long before the general public knew anything about it.

Wonder what happened to all those missile shot when they landed back on land

The coolest flying thing in history. And it was design by the nation, where screws arent 4-5-6-7-8-9-10mm, but 5/32-3/16-15/64-9/32-5/16-11/32.
So they used rivets. 😂

I'm pretty sure no other nation came close to matching the black bird in spy technology or whatever else. So yea, I think it's the best

Fantastic video!

Sorta says it all in the thumbnail

I don’t think the SR ‘ever’ overflew the Soviet Union, per policy dictated by Eisenhower, and it was a no joke restriction according to every one of the dozens Blackbird pilot interview I’ve listened to. That was a consistent of a thread as never exceeding the Mach 3.2 speed, with the exception of Major Shul’s claim of Mach 3.5 (a source of much controversy within the pilot community, as the ‘speed limit’ was actually a thermal limit).

Sure, maybe it could have happened, but if so, it’s been a closely guarded secret, but the standard flight profile was to hug the border, parallel with the border, and peak in about 200 miles. There’s at least one flight where the pilot or RSO made a slight navigational error that was barely corrected before an incursion. This implies that Foxbat and Foxhound interceptions either crossed the border or their AAMs did; same with SAMs. But acknowledged or sanctioned Blackbird incursions…never. Not officially.

As far as I can recall, the records of SAM debris being lodged within the airframe occurred during overflights in SE Asia.

The YF-12a housed three AIM-47 Falcons, the progenitor of the AIM-54 Phoenix. The YF-12A’s AN/ASG-2 fire control radar was also the progenitor of the Tomcat’s AN/AWG-9 radar and APG-71 fire control, as posted; both the AN/ASG-2 and the AIM-47 were taken from the canceled North American XF-108 Rapier, yet another should-have-been interceptor and proposed XB-70 escort; laf, a should-have-been bomber.

18 A-12 Oxcarts (Cygnus, as referred to by the flight crews) were built, and three of these airframes (No. 7, 8, and 9) were modified into YF-12As. All 18 were single seat aircraft, quite the pilot load. Two YF-12As were lost, the third exists in the AF Museum.

93 YF-12Bs were ordered for production; sadly, of course, this order was cancelled.

A fourth YF-12 was actually the second SR-71A, but designated YF-12C for security purposes.

I don't believe all of this is accurate. There was little reason for the Blackbird to overfly the Soviet Union. The variants used by the CIA may have.

Great video. I always enjoy any and all typea of media that covers the SR-71A BlackBirds. Thanks for making this video.

US probably have invisible planes now 😂

Imagine Kelly Johnson is still living & using CAD. Dude he'll bring us to Alpha Centauri 😂😂❤

americas new spy is ready good cuss still super secret

I read the autobiograpfy of Ben Rich. Next "Boss" of Skunk Works, after Mr Johnson.
Just love to see that "Habu"! Nothing, before or after SR 71, is more beautiful and graceful.
from a Finn in Diaspora

Yes. Diffenley. Top spy plane and one of my favourite top 5 aircraft made. 👽👍

The Blackbird is the greatest spy plane of all time, that we know of officially.

The plane shown in the beginning of the second "Top Gun" movie flown by Tom Cruise isn't "Hollywood fiction" but apparently it's real. They might have edited some bits and pieces but it exists. Nevertheless the AR 71 Blackbird is still one of my favorites.

stealing data from other countries, really stupid😂😂😂

So built a jet that leaks fuel all over the runway, cant carry weapon systems and has flying characteristics of an axe....But we can fly over USSR real quick in a straigh line and brag about it. The biggest waste of money ever, thats why it doesnt fly anymore and none of that hype tech is being used now. Capitalism at its finest, waste huge amount of money to achieve what exactly? Absolute fools hahahah

leaked fuel all over the place - no big deal, unless, of course, they were adding radioactive cesium to the fuel

I bet it’s not flying over Russia now!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂

A reality show idea

Design, build, and successfully fly a jet matching the capabilities of the SR 71 using only slide rules and adding machines.

I was a Crew Chief on the KC-135Q tanker at Beale AFB, CA '80-84. The Blackbird ran on JP-7 and the 135Q was the only tanker designed to carry it. In all the times that I've seen it take off, land and watched refuels from the boompod, I never once got tired of watching this amazing aircraft fly and even became an acquaintance with one of the pilots, Brian Shul. I was and continue to be proud and honored that I had a connection with this aircraft.

U2 cruise speed is 470 MPH. At high altitude its stall speed approaches that number.

Well now ,shot from space ?

the fact that they built the blackbird back in the 1960's is just crazy. This thing is REALLY a feat of modern (back then) engineering.

But not sweden airforce.

Say what about the sr-72 Blackbird isn't that the successor of the 71? Anchor somebody give me a specifications on this I mean just basic specifications okay I thought to 72 head of max speed of 2 or more times the speed of sound possibly somebody could u update me on

Say what about the sr-72 Blackbird isn't that the successor of the 71? Anchor somebody give me a specifications on this I mean just basic specifications okay I thought to 72 head of max speed of 2 or more times the speed of sound possibly somebody could u update me on

Wrong video reference of JFK: The first U-2 spy plane was shot down on May 1, 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower

The SR-71 Blackbird did not overfly the Soviet Union. Instead, it flew at extremely high altitudes along the Soviet borders, often skirting international airspace. Who's your technical editor? Fire him.

So many technical errors in this video it's almost misinformation.