Maybe just a
little marketing in this press release. It appears that Lockheed is attempting to get government funding for a project that the company has been self-funding. There are more than a few technical problems that need to be overcome.
Lockheed declined to say how much it had invested in the SR-72 project to date, or what the new airplane might cost if it is ever built. But it said it had tried to keep the current tight budget environment in mind while working on the project
He said the company and its partners had developed and tested key components of the proposed new aircraft using their own internal research funding, but the program needed additional funds to move ahead with larger-scale demonstrations of the technologies involved.
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