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A-12 "Oxcart" (SR-71) and the strange tale about this plane

SR-71 (Picture I) https://metsantarinoita.blogspot.com/ Kimmo Huosionmaa SR-71 was the fastest aircraft in the world, and it had the capacity to fly at speed over 3600 kilometers per hour. The program was also known as A-12 "Oxcart", and the name of this system was selected for covering the top-secret spy plane, by claiming that is new attack plane. This aircraft had extreme high speed, and some of them were lost in accidents. One of the reasons or the biggest reason for terminating this program was that the CIA afraid that the motor technology what was used in this plane got into hands of the communist block if one of those planes would get the motor damage during the mission. There were explosives in those planes, that if it would go too low, the explosives were destroyed the motors and other important parts of that plane, and some of the destroyed planes were destroyed in the tests, where those self-destruction mechanisms were tested because CIA afraid that ...

Black budget aircraft and commandos are deadly combinations

AN-26 cargo plane (Demo photo, what has no connection with this text) (Picture 1) Kimmo Huosionmaa The term “Black budget aircraft” is normally misunderstood as some special technology platform, what is not actually true. This term means aircraft, what is built or other ways furnished from outside the bookkeeping. Money for those aircraft would be routed from other projects. This kind of aircraft might consist of civilian aircraft, what would not want to track to the air forces. Those aircraft might use in some anti-narcotics operations, or picking up agents from hostile areas. In the case of CIA, those aircraft might be Russian origin Antonov cargo planes or Ilyushin passenger planes, what mission is to support the missions of special forces and CIA agents in hostile areas. Those aircraft would carry weapons and other equipment for operators, who operate in areas, what are hostile to the United States or NATO. Sometimes those planes might have false national markings, and...