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Originally Posted by Peterfrans
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Not really. While the SR-71 is cool (and one of my personal favorite aircraft of all time) it is extremely crude technology and has virtually no maneuverability and no combat capability. It leaks fuel like a sieve on the ground because engineers didn't know how to solve the problem of thermal variation in fittings then - they just left enough clearance / tolerance such that when things got hot during operation the gaps sealed due to expansion. The aircraft is fast for sure but in terms of a "step forward" comparing it to a modern jet like a raptor is like comparing a 1960s Mercury Atlas (also cool in its own way) to the Space Shuttle - or a VW Beetle to a Prius.
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