military planners decided to decommission the spy plane. While the SR-71 was never shot down in thirty years of service, ...

The SR-71 program shut down for good in 1999 ... the Clinton administration's decision to cancel it and thought the spy plane ...

Video: How they built the Blackbird: Fascinating pictures show birth of Lockheed's top secret SR-71 spy plane - which is STILL the fastest plane ever built after 39 years Developed for the U.S ...

As detailed in the book Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird: The Illustrated History of America's Legendary Mach 3 Spy Plane, one of these pilots “ran into some debris from part of the fusing components ...

The SR-71 Blackbird, a Cold War-era marvel, marked its final flight on October 9, 1999, after 25 years in service. With its ...

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 ...

In a September 1965 test, a YF-12 successfully launched a quarter-kiloton atomic missile, from an altitude of 75,000 feet at ...

The Soviet Union continued to invest heavily in the development of capable next-generation fighter and bomber aircraft ...

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the 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 ...

In the mid-1950s, the U.S. military realized it needed a better platform to track Soviet military movements behind the Iron Curtain than the U-2 spy plane ... rise to the SR-71 "Blackbird ...

the legendary high-altitude US spy plane. A Russian pilot claimed he was able to lock his missiles onto an SR-71 during one incident, and 6 Foxhounds reportedly cornered a Blackbird in another.

The F-117 Nighthawk was developed in response to the US' need for a jet that could operate completely undetected by the enemy.