Black Projects

>>35041436
Aurora was a black research project of unknown content and aim. It was not some super special space fighter nonense.

There would have been no need to bring the SR-71 back into service if Aurora actually existed as the sequential fart powered arrow UFO it is alleged to be.

I always just assumed spy planes got completely replaced with satellites. Unless we go full WW3 and targeting satellites becomes a thing, they're better in every capacity

USSS

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>In the FY 1986 DOD budget request under the heading "air breathing reconnaissance", there was a
line item labeled "Aurora" funded for $80 million with a projected spending level in FY 1987 of $2.272
billion. In his 1994 biography Skunk Works, Ben Rich claims that the line item for Aurora was for the
Advanced Technology Bomber competition. The ATB competition was won by Northrop over
Lockheed's bid in late 1981, producing the B-2 Spirit bomber. By 1983, it had already received funding
for construction.

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>>35041825
that's what I get for copy pasting from a pdf

https://youtu.be/pFWza6LTMrY

>>35041506
Getting recon on a target RIGHT FUCKING NOW rather than waiting hours-days for a sat to be overhead? Having recon assets that aren't gonna eat an ASAT attack day one? There are uses for spy aircraft.

>>35041436
An interesting one (to me) is the F-117's "companion". Apparently still in service, its job was to assist the F-117 in ingress and egress (tracking radars, comms, etc), find targets, and coordinate the strikes. Some rumors state that it also did a bit of armed SEAD as well as electronic.

The thing that makes it seem more possible to me is the AARS/Quartz project. It was meant as a companion to the B-2, to help it as described above, only on a larger scale. A similar, small-scale version makes sense to me.

The "companion" is newer than the F-117, and uses more sophisticated stealth- still useful in the modern day.

>>35041436
SB-3 ghoul.

But we don't talk about that.

>>35043469
Any other information on this? Never heard of that before but it would make sense. Any timeframe on when it could have been developed?

>>35043612
Roughly around the same time as the F-117, but slightly later, which is why the stealth is more advanced. Say 5-10 years later, probably late eighties.

There's lots of rumors and speculation around the internet, but nothing definite. If you search for F-117 companion, you can find plenty of guesses. If it exists, it is important enough to keep fairly secret.

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>>35041436
Am I doing it right?

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>>35041436
>this will never be declassified
why even live?

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>>35043612
http://www.stealthskater.com/Documents/BlackDawn_6.pdf

out of curiosity, is there any record of an attempt, proposal, or even brainstorming for an aircraft capable of NEO by the US gov?

I haven't heard of any but the idea seems rather intuitive, only thing better than high altitude reconnaissance would be doing it from just outside, or maybe satellite land.

They proposed a lot of crazy and too advanced ideas back then, be kinda odd if there's no record of attempts at the general premise.

>>35041863
Anti gravity?

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>>35043855
Do you mean something like the X-20 Dyna-Soar? It needed a booster to get into space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-20_Dyna-Soar

>>35043612
Also, while it wasn't Tacit Blue, it's a good example of the potential capabilities of the design:

>The Northrop Tacit Blue was a technology demonstrator aircraft created to demonstrate that a low observable stealth surveillance aircraft with a low probability of intercept radar and other sensors could operate close to the forward line of battle with a high degree of survivability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Tacit_Blue

Large-scale secret projects don't stay secret for long, particularly these days.

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>>35041436
Unidentified drone program with Area 51 ties (the circle of red stars is Area 51 iconography).

God I want us to go to war with China or Russia or at least someone who will force us to reveal whatever crazy shit we've got hidden up our sleeves from wacky cold war projects.

>>35044402
>Shit actually goes down
>wow it's fucking nothing.jpg
>We find out that officials in black programs have been pocketing the money for decades because who would ever know.

>>35041506
>they're better in every capacity
Except all the capacities they're not...

>>35043385
>waiting days for a satellite to be overhead
An LEO sat can cover the entire globe in 12 hours.

>>35046850
>>35043385
Should add, that's for just ONE satellite. A constellation of them in different orbital planes can cut that into a fraction.

>>35043916
>Get on the Floor.
>Everybody walk the Dyna-Soar

>>35044402
>Shit actually goes down
>wow look at those f-35s and f-22s fly
>meanwhile the rothchilds are flying to venus

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>>35041436
>black projects
>post projects that are black
ok

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>>35047272
>>meanwhile the rothchilds are flying to venus

Kek

>pic related, Rothchild black magic fuckery

>>35041451
Just because an aircraft is flyable that doesn't make it ready for operational use.

>>35041436
Some crazy top secret shit being unveiled would make me rock hard.

I've seen one of those triangle things with the lights on the corners, obviously something of ours, I want to know what.

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sighted over Kansas and Texas

has everyone heard about the North Sea sighting or should I greentext it?

I'm surprised marauderfag hasn't shown up yet.

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Where's my fuckin Aurora Donny?

>>35047272
>>meanwhile the rothchilds are flying to venus
audibly kekd

I'm pretty sure all the money for skunkworks is going into Elon Musk kids trust funds at this point. Why buy a 400$ hammer when you can buy 400$ stock in a growth industry and get dividends each quarter through a holding company. It's a win win win.

Not a single goddamn picture of Detroit in this thread, I'm disappointed

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>>35044127

>>35043607
You have shilled this nonsense on 4chan for years and it's time to stop

>>35050830
one reason could be that tesla doesn't actually pay dividends

>>35049174

I used to see some weird fucking shit driving back and forth between Reno and Las Vegas in the late '90s.

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>>35041436
Good vidya on Aurora

https://youtu.be/Y9MaP-J5ps8