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The Blackbird - Lockheed had to build a secret industrial world to make it real
Winning the A-12 contract was only the beginning. Lockheed then had to create a secret base in the Nevada desert, master titanium on a scale never attempted before, solve extreme heating and fuel ...
A super-secret Lockheed Martin Skunk Works project is no longer a secret after the company revealed its Vectis Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) – an autonomous stealth fighter drone developed ...
Introduction -- The 1940s: Forming the wings to come -- The 1950s: Forthcoming technologies -- The 1960s: Advancing the state of the art -- The 1970s: Era of wizardry -- The 1980s: Bewildering ...
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Deadly Drone Born from Lockheed's Secret Program
The Lockheed D-21 was a high-speed reconnaissance drone developed as an unmanned counterpart to the SR-71 Blackbird. Designed during the Cold War for covert missions over hostile territory, it could ...
Months after Pakistan used a Chinese-made ultra-long-range missile to shoot down Indian fighters, US Air Force and Navy funding requests show they may soon get their own advanced weapon after eight ...
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