From: william f cox (grntrks@juno.com)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 20:44:35 PST
In the dim reaches of my memory, I recall an article stating the YF12 (
or SR71) could fly 150 mph faster than a 30 cal. machine gun bullet.
Frank
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 17:24:59 -0800 "Dave Ball" <vought@msn.com> writes:
> I heard from my Dad that the YF-12 program and its drone were
> cancelled and
> the information learned was turned into the SR-71 project with the
> gattling
> gun removed. The YF-12 was faster than its own bullets and shot
> itself down
> once or twice (The engines ingested 20mm shells).
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "william f cox" <grntrks@juno.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 2:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Columbia and escape modules... and SR71 stats the
> fastest
> conventional flight MV
>
>
> > I was active duty Air Force during development of the YF12. It
> was
> > designed to be a one-way interceptor for incoming ICBM missles and
> is
> > still the only aircraft I'm aware of that can do this. It was to
> > intercept the missle and shoot it down during re-entry into the
> > atmosphere as it approached targetted area.
> >
> > Frank
> >
> > On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:27:17 -0500 myrddin7@juno.com writes:
> > > there were two other deignation aircraft on the sr-71
> airframe,the
> > > yf-12
> > > and another i have forgotten the designation.does anyone have
> any
> > > info as
> > > to what they were up to all these years?some years back( over 30
> )
> > > popular mechanics ran somrthing about them,and the other planes
> > > were
> > > mentioned but were called too highly classified to talk
> about.mike
> > > power
> > >
> > >
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> > Frank Cox (grntrks@juno.com)
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