The SR-71 Blackbird: Outrunning Fighters and Missiles ... AIM-54 hits a QF-4 target drone during testing. (U.S. Navy photos) Training intercepts that pitted the F-14 against the SR-71 were known ...

The SR-71 “Blackbird” broke the world’s record ... to maintain and operate and that emerging technologies including drones and sophisticated satellites rendered the Blackbird useless.

“Faster than a speeding bullet” may bring to mind a certain superhero from the planet Krypton, but it was literally true of the SR-71 Blackbird, the sleek, stealthy Air Force spy plane taken ...

NASA released video footage of the SR-71 Blackbird, the high-altitude recon aircraft capable of reaching speeds over Mach 3. More from Military & Defense NASA released video footage of the SR-71 ...

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching speeds over three times the speed of sound, and the SR-72 is ...