Thursday, October 15, 2009

Pentagon Eyes Spaceplane For Speedy Recon


From War Is Boring:

Twenty years after the U.S. Air Force first retired its SR-71 spy plane, and 11 years after a handful of the Mach-3 jets was briefly returned to military service, the military has finally identified a candidate to replace the famed Blackbird. The Pentagon’s secretive National Security Space Office is navigating a minefield of budgetary perils, bureaucratic expectations and industry inhibitions, to turn a experimental, civilian “space plane” into a high-speed, responsive reconnaissance craft.

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My Comment: One would think that satellites can do everything .... obviously not.

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