Reminder that secret flying black triangles do exist

>>33164191
I see you Madfag.

>Picture of a B1 back during testing

>hurr durr guise a UFO

>>>/x/

>>33164416

>not a b1
>says it is anyways

>>33164416
>irrefutable evidence
>still ignores it
>>>/r9k/

nothing to see here just darpa testing out a new toy that'll never be used again.

>>33164191
so are back reposing your thread million times again fucktard ?

guess what its a b-2 from weird angle

>>33164610
>guess what its a b-2 from weird angle

t. LockMart

>>33164191
if >>33157648 this thread is anything to go off of, then its likely that its being used as an interceptor/escort for sr71s that have been converted into supersonic stealth bombers

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>>33165595
>sr71s that have been converted into supersonic stealth bombers

>>33165645
>>33165645
see>>33164551

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>>33165595
>sr71s that have been converted into supersonic stealth bombers
>irrefutable evidence

>>33164191
Top two images are of the production variant of the Convair Kingfish that was flying from the late 60's through the 90's.

The drawing is of whatever replaced it in the early/mid 90's, an aircraft that was very likely the one that crashed at Boscombe Down.

The sighting of the craft refuelling was very likely the Kingfish derivative that was referenced in the top two images.

The bottom right image is supposedly one of the LRS-B demonstrators.

The bottom left image is less clear, but may well be an LRS-B demonstrator as well.

>>33164191
SR-72

In the 1980s, Northrop had 6 black budget aircraft projects going on at one time at one point.

>t. a higher up at northrop that dropped this during conversation some years ago. rip

That's all I know.

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>>33166140

OK, so here's the ones we know:
1: Tacit Blue
2: The ATB (the B-2)
3: The AGM-137 TSSAM
4: The ATF (YF-23)

That leaves 2 we get to speculate about.

I've heard rumors that Northrop was involved in a big orbital access program that probably was the basis for the Blackstar AWST, that was likely started in the 80's.

I also have a hunch that the YF-23 was related to a stealth supercruising ISR platform. A delta planform YF-23 would be a perfect SR-71 successor, trading speed for stealth, and the YF-23's single, ventral weapons bay always looked like it was better suited as an Oxcart-style Q bay than as something to carry ordinance. It probably looked like this.

>>33166225
Northrop's XST aircraft, though I think that may be on the edge of the range that the man I knew was aware of these projects.

>>33166333
XST was a 70's project that Northrop lost before the Have Blue ever flew.

Though another one I've heard of was a Northrop proposal for the Navy's ATA program that eventually became the A-12 Avenger II that looked a lot like a 1/2 scale version of the B-21 Raider renderings.

>>33166389
To be honest, I'm not entirely convinced that the A-12 never flew.

>>33166423
Oh absolutely. That functional, used looking canopy that popped up on ebay said it all.

$100 says it flew as a prototype at China Lake, and lived on post-cancellation as a Groom-based stealth technologies testbed for the Phantom Works after Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas.

>>33166524
sneaky pete

>>33166524
Sneaky Pete : A-12 :: Have Blue : F-117

>>33166679
Meant for:
>>33166601

>>33166524
Yeah, the canopy is what pushes it over the edge for me too.

It doesn't look like the canopy of a mockup, that shit was made to fly.


This is the best black-project thread we've had in a while.

>>33166721
no pics and a bunch of samefagging. Fuck off OP this one sucks.

>>33167114
Kys fagett

>>33164191
>fond memories of watching sneaky black triangles blast across the sky as a child back in VA.

>>33168741
>not taking any pictures

>>33169302
Not him but if he his my age there weren't many kids in the early 90's that had cameras at their disposal or even knew how to use one.
I don't think I even saw a disposable camera until around 98 or 99 at the earliest.

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>>33165834
>>33165645
>>33165595
>sr71s that have been converted into supersonic stealth bombers

And make the worse bomber ever

>>33169506
>what is parents' camera

>>33164191
All I see is a weather balloon.

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don't know if these are too good to be true, needless to say there are a shitload of triangle sightings in the southern U.S in recent years

>>33170203
>>33170211
>>33170219
>le shovel nose meme

>>>/milphotos/

>>33170129
>letting your child fuck around with a 35mm camera
Things that never happened for 100 Alex

>>33170203
>>33170211
>>33170219
Probably just Venus.

>>33169606
How?

>>33170716
Think of the payload. 3, maybe 4 1,000lb bombs.

>>33170156
kek

>>33170716
>Next to no payload - maybe 3 or 4 bombs
>shorter operational radius than a strategic bomber
>retardedly expensive to build and maintain because muh titanium
>requires inflight refueling right after takeoff for literally every single flight

It's the same reason they cancelled the YF-12 - turns out no matter how fast it went, it's still not worth all the extra costs and time lost because you needed to refuel it in flight just to start a mission.

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>>33171669
The only reason why the YF-12 flew in the first place was as a daytime cover for ongoing A-12 flights to keep the plausible deniability going.

It's only reason for ever leaving the paper was so that there was an Oxcart-shaped craft flying that they could use to distract from the REAL Oxcart, and even then, the CIA realized it was easier to give their sloppy seconds to the USAF as the SR-71 to maintain ongoing opsec during the teething years of forward basing the A-12's.

Even then, it's painfully obvious to anyone who can read the tea leaves that the A-12 itself was just a low-risk technology demonstrator (people always forget that it was the simpler/less ambitious entrant to the OXCART competition) to prove the J58/JP-7 combo and practice basing security while the CIA worked out the kinks on the Convair Kingfish, which was just as fast as the A-12 but had a significantly lower RCS due to its F-117esque shaping, hidden inlets, and buck rogers ceramic construction.

What I'm saying is that there's a reason why the A-12 was retired in 1968, and it almost certainly has nothing whatsoever to do with satellites or the SR-71. I can totally see the CIA approving the simpler/cheaper A-12 in 1959 only to reverse course and approve the much stealthier and more technologically ambitious Kingfish in 1960 after Gary Powers was shot down.

Coincidentally, the Kingfish almost perfectly matches the description of the "Fastmover" in OP's image, as well as the F-111-sized North Sea Triangle sighting.

Go figure.

>>33168731
still samefagging I see, the post count literally hasn't gone up since I posted about your samefagging and I brought it to 21.

>>33172114
For what purpose would this aircraft serve?

>>33172163
Aeronautical testing platform.

>>33172253
What about the XB-70?

>>33172791
McNamara being a complete ass.

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hmmmmmmm...

>>33170203
>>33170211
>>33170219
fake. taken by "different" people all with the same model camera

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>>33164191
Its common knowledge actually.

>>33173617
>x-tier bullshit