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Has the successor to the SR71 been built?

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Old 15th Jan 2018, 07:29
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Has the successor to the SR71 been built?
Reports speculating Lockheed Martin may have already built a successor to the SR71.

From this article https://www.avweb.com/eletter/archiv...t=email#230173

In his speech, Jack O’Bannon of Lockheed Martin was talking about “digital transformation” and let it slip that his company’s potential replacement for the SR-71 “could not have been made” without the new technology. Lockheed Martin had, until that point, only spoken of the so-called SR-72 in the future tense.
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Originally Posted by 27/09
Reports speculating Lockheed Martin may have already built a successor to the SR71.

From this article https://www.avweb.com/eletter/archiv...t=email#230173
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