SR-72 Confirmed: Mach 6 Project Blackswift

reply to post by MystikMushroom


You could right up until someone put optics on it. You could disguise it for awhile, but eventually someone would put two and two together. A bunch of odd looking communications satellites would get suspicious. Not to mention hard as hell to perform maintenance on the warheads as they need it. Or align the nav system.

reply to post by Zaphod58


I think they've found a way to have no maintenance nukes, so those could definately go into space.

reply to post by Stealthbomber


You'll always require some kind of maintenance. The radiation given off by the core will break down the electronics given time. That's one reason that there's such an overhaul going on with the US arsenal.

reply to post by Zaphod58


Hmm just a theory here,

What if nuclear weapons were in a satellite then an aircraft like the X-37b goes up brings the weapons back for servicing then returns them again?

reply to post by Stealthbomber


I think the payload bay is too small to bring one back, but I do think that the X-37 is more than capable of servicing a satellite or said nuclear weapon and thats what it was designed to do. Why else have the payload bay top secret? And the servicing guys on the ground in NBC gear? I know I know the APU fuel or whatever but it could be a very good point that the X-37 was designed for just that.

Or hacking into other countries spy satellites

reply to post by boomer135


I think you may be right, from reading other posts on here from members that would know about these things when they speculate about thing you tend to listen

reply to post by Stealthbomber


One of the theories tossed around is that they're servicing certain satellites while up there (not nuclear), as kind of a side note to the mission going on.

reply to post by boomer135


APU, RCS, main power supply... That crap is NASTY. For years the most dreaded sentence we could hear was "his EPU fired". Hearing that guaranteed we would start beating or head on the wall.

I tend to go with the kinetic systems using inert rods.

reply to post by cavtrooper7


The rods from god in a satellite or for the X-37b? Either way I don't think either are in use at the moment.

reply to post by Stealthbomber


Many things aren't. Again we can't tell can we? Paint it black and coat it with stealth then stick in orbit and it is gone.

reply to post by cavtrooper7


You could do that, but it would still reflect light back. There are other ways to make a satellite stealthy like with Misty but only at certain times, say for when flying over Russia for example. At some point they will be spotted though, and there is groups of amateur satellite watchers that basically just hunt down and predict the orbits of spy satellites.

reply to post by cavtrooper7


You could do that, but it would still reflect light back. There are other ways to make a satellite stealthy like with Misty but only at certain times, say for when flying over Russia for example. At some point they will be spotted though, and there is groups of amateur satellite watchers that basically just hunt down and predict the orbits of spy satellites.

OP is a liar - my grand daddy used to work for these people on these types of projects and would never say anything at all to anyone ever, not even his own wife.

The security agreement is like giving the .gov remote access to your brain....

Also, there are better less visible testing ranges for these projects, they wouldn't jeopardize them as you can take public tours to within 14 miles at the DOE range.

Originally posted by cavtrooper7
[ Paint it black and coat it with stealth then stick in orbit and it is gone.

Ninja wore midnight blue because it blends in with the night sky better....


The sightings of the black triangle over phoenix were not lost on military experts.

dp

Originally posted by circuitsports
OP is a liar - my grand daddy used to work for these people on these types of projects and would never say anything at all to anyone ever, not even his own wife.

The security agreement is like giving the .gov remote access to your brain....

Also, there are better less visible testing ranges for these projects, they wouldn't jeopardize them as you can take public tours to within 14 miles at the DOE range.

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Originally posted by cavtrooper7
[ Paint it black and coat it with stealth then stick in orbit and it is gone.

Ninja wore midnight blue because it blends in with the night sky better....

edit on 25-7-2013 by circuitsports because: (no reason given)

The sightings of the black triangle over phoenix were not lost on military experts.

edit on 25-7-2013 by circuitsports because: (no reason given)

The op isnt wrong. Shes always been right with her intel. She was a subject matter expert as well

reply to post by circuitsports

Actually the darkest black is red.They wore a dark red.One of Stephen Haye's guys is a buddy and I was into martial arts as a teen.

cool too see something fresh.

If the for air force is spending money on something at groom, I would imagine it some sort of SSTO for the ?-37A/B follow on program. Why build a something that's already been done and retired when the X37 has demonstrated so much potential as space based weapons platform? 17,000 MPH LEO target much more difficult to deal with, especially when you don't know it's being launched, or were it's being launched from. Anyway, that would be just as cool as an unmanned SR wanna be!

MystikMushroom

I remember very clearly years ago sitting in a hot tub at night looking at the stars. I saw what I thought was a satellite (predictable as you said) and watched it go from one horizon to the other. I've seen countless satellites and it was behaving normally, until it made a perfect 90 degree turn on a dime. My father was with me at the time and saw it too.

To this day we still both don't know what could be moving so fast and pull off a manuver like that!

Ive seen that too a few times, I think someone explained it once, they dont move 90 degrees, its an optical illusion. However, I didnt understand the explanation, but i have seen those tiny moving spots of light turn 90 degrees.