US Spy Plane Crashes In Iran

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Re: US Spy Plane Crashes In Iran

@Ohioguy

Frankly, when the US retired the sr-71s, it was with the presumption that they had something better. It would not suprise me at all if it was not a U2, but something much more advanced.

That’s pretty paranoid. The SR-71 was an extremely expensive project only necessitated by the real threat posed by the existence of the USSR.

There is no nation sufficiently hostile to the USA with powerful enough anti-air defences to require something like the SR-71 anymore. Satellite surveillance, UAVs and the U-2 can more than adequately cover all of the USA’s reconnaisance needs for the next 20 years.