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Originally Posted by tcar
There were 2 A-12's, neither was from Grumman, I don't think.
Lockheed - The Blackbird, for the CIA (SR-71)
McDonnell-Douglas - is the one you're thinking of; for the Navy (Dorito?).
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The A-12 pictured in this thread was a Navy bird.
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Originally Posted by MFAFF
Snipe...
How do you figure a General Dyanmics /McDD aircraft destroyed Grumman?
It did a great job of self destructing in the mid 1970s with the F-14 contract and never recovered....let alone stomach the loss of the A-6F programme and not convincing NavAir that a updated Strike Tomcat was a better bet than the Super Hornet...
Ah politics...
But the X-47B is looking interesting... not as good as a Tomcat tho'....
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It's a looooooooooooong story, but it involved Dick Cheyney, the Navy, the A-12, the F-14D tomcat and revenge. The lawsuits over the defunct A-12 program lingered for decades.
Google it for some interesting reading some time.
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Originally Posted by Seahawk
Good friend of mine runs the program...very interesting technology.
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So are Cylons.