the Aurora: too cool to just make up
The Aurora has been an alleged aircraft for over 20 years now, the idea is that this aircraft would be a speedy and hi-tech aircraft that was to replace the aging SR-71 Blackbird, which in it's day could reach a speed of Mach 3.2.
It's alleged replacement the Aurora is rumored to be able to reach up to Mach 8!
As a reconnaissance aircraft this means that it would be able to reach any point on the globe in less than three hours!
It could be used to take photos of certain locations anywhere on Earth the old fashioned way being able to arrive much faster than it would take an orbiting satellite to arrive over a certain subject.
Could it really exist?
People have often theorized that the expensive B-2 bomber development may have been a cover up ($22.5 billion development costs) for the development of the Aurora.
Reports of unusual sonic booms above Southern California have been recorded dating back to mid and late 1991. On at least five other occasions these kind of booms were recorded by at least 25 of the 220 US Geological Survey sensors across Southern California used to pinpoint earthquake epicenters.
Seismologists estimate that the aircraft were flying at speeds between Mach 3 and 4 and at altitudes of 8 to 10 kilometers. The aircraft's flight path was in a north north-east direction, consistent with flight paths to secret test ranges in Nevada.
The Chris Gibson sighting is also often cited.
Chris was in the Royal Observer Corps aircraft recognition team for 12 years up until 1991. Chris told Jane's Defense Weekly that while working as an oil-drilling engineer in the North Sea in 1989 he saw a strange wedge-shaped aircraft flying between two conventional F-111 fighter-bombers and a KC-135 Stratotanker.
The above image is a fake but the wedge shaped aircraft it is depicting could be in some form or another a reality.
Recent Russian defense projects include the development of missiles that can shoot down hypersonic aircraft.
A hypersonic aircraft of this kind as a weapons platform has huge potential for surgical nuclear strike and/or anti-satellite roles.
If it does exist and ever enters service it will probably pop up in various parts of the world far from US air space and will have the North Koreans and Chinese developing equally impressive surface to air counter measures.
It's alleged replacement the Aurora is rumored to be able to reach up to Mach 8!
As a reconnaissance aircraft this means that it would be able to reach any point on the globe in less than three hours!
It could be used to take photos of certain locations anywhere on Earth the old fashioned way being able to arrive much faster than it would take an orbiting satellite to arrive over a certain subject.
Could it really exist?
People have often theorized that the expensive B-2 bomber development may have been a cover up ($22.5 billion development costs) for the development of the Aurora.
Reports of unusual sonic booms above Southern California have been recorded dating back to mid and late 1991. On at least five other occasions these kind of booms were recorded by at least 25 of the 220 US Geological Survey sensors across Southern California used to pinpoint earthquake epicenters.
Seismologists estimate that the aircraft were flying at speeds between Mach 3 and 4 and at altitudes of 8 to 10 kilometers. The aircraft's flight path was in a north north-east direction, consistent with flight paths to secret test ranges in Nevada.
The Chris Gibson sighting is also often cited.
Chris was in the Royal Observer Corps aircraft recognition team for 12 years up until 1991. Chris told Jane's Defense Weekly that while working as an oil-drilling engineer in the North Sea in 1989 he saw a strange wedge-shaped aircraft flying between two conventional F-111 fighter-bombers and a KC-135 Stratotanker.
The above image is a fake but the wedge shaped aircraft it is depicting could be in some form or another a reality.
Recent Russian defense projects include the development of missiles that can shoot down hypersonic aircraft.
A hypersonic aircraft of this kind as a weapons platform has huge potential for surgical nuclear strike and/or anti-satellite roles.
If it does exist and ever enters service it will probably pop up in various parts of the world far from US air space and will have the North Koreans and Chinese developing equally impressive surface to air counter measures.
Labels: aurora, blackbird, hypersonic aircraft, stealth aircraft
posted by Paul Iddon @ 8:35 PM
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