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The Lockheed D-21 is an American supersonic reconnaissance drone. The D-21 was initially designed to be launched from the back of an M-21 carrier aircraft, a variant of the Lockheed A-12 aircraft. The drone had maximum speed in excess of Mach 3.3 (2,200 miles per hour; 3,600 kilometers per hour) at an operational altitude of 90,000 feet (27,000 ...
WZ-8 is a supersonic-hypersonic, remotely operated, high-altitude reconnaissance vehicle. The aircraft bears some superficial resemblance to the DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle mounted onboard DF-17 medium-range ballistic missile and the American Lockheed D-21 reconnaissance drone, [ 5 ] albeit different in overall dimensions, propulsions, and ...
The M-21, a two-seat variant, carried and launched the Lockheed D-21, an uncrewed, faster and higher-flying reconnaissance drone. The M-21 had a pylon on its back for mounting the drone and a second cockpit for a Launch Control Operator/Officer (LCO) in the place of the A-12's Q bay. [68] The D-21 was autonomous; after launch, it would fly over ...
After many failures, the powerful D-21 drone—in essence a pilotless miniature of the Mach-3 SR-71 manned spy plane—photographed China’s Lop Nor nuclear test site between 1969 and 1971.
Design group. Tupolev. Status. Development ceased. Number built. 0. Developed from. Lockheed D-21. The Tupolev Voron (Russian: Ворон; English: Raven) was a planned supersonic unmanned reconnaissance aircraft of the Soviet Union manufactured by the company Tupolev, largely based on or designed to compete with the Lockheed D-21 .
The reconnaissance drone program comes after the recent revelations that China has a wide-ranging spy balloon program. A U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon in February.
The Lockheed Martin SR-72, colloquially referred to as "Son of Blackbird",[1]is an American hypersonicUAVconcept intended for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance(ISR) proposed privately in 2013 by Lockheed Martinas a successor to the retired Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. In 2018, company executives said an SR-72 test vehicle could fly by ...
The space agency said Monday a key management review resulted in the go-ahead for continued work by Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) on the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology plane, or QueSST ...