The B-47 and the B-52 gave us the 707. Who knows what the B-70 would have given us. Sure there were smaller supersonic planes, but the B-70 would have been the template for large civil aircraft.

There were, oh so many, “Rockwell”, Airbus, Boeing and Tupolev´s airliners with a variable sweep wing for the last three decades didnt they?
And the latest generation of Embraer´s, Comac´s, Canadair´s, Boeing´s, Airbus and “Northrop” Airliners all look like a gigantic collection of “Batman aeroplane look alikes”.

A trick ?

There are plenty of supersonic projects in the works today and we will see prototypes in the sky by 2020 and maybe service in 2025. The history books will look at 2003 to 2020 as the dark ages of aviation. The age where lthe fastest military and civilian jets sat in museums. The age where aviation regressed instead of progressed.

What protoype are you specificaly thinking? The BOOM subscale demonstrator?
Besides BOOM, i am not aware of one single project that aims to have a prototype of a civilian supersonic aircraft by 2020, the earliest would be lockheed QST X—plane and that would be flying (with a bit of luck) around 2023/24. And i will be pretty surprised if BOOM actually builds and fly the XB-1.
There are quite a lot of start ups (Spike/Aerion, BOOM, Cygnus, etc) doing sketches in PC CAD but the chances of them getting anything airborne with actual passengers on it would be pretty, pretty thin, the investment to have such an aircraft flying in regular service shoud be on “quite a lot of billions” cost bracket. Untill i see any “major” (Boeing, Airbus, Embraer, Canadair, COMAC, Sukhoi, Dassault, etc) cutting metal i wouldnt bet the farm on a supersonic civilian aircraft hitting the market.

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The first radar AESA JAPG 1 is a very short range detect. Comparison it to the first radar PESA Zaslon’s MiG-31,

Next comparsion, a fishing trawler with the USS Gerald Ford…
they are both boats…

If an Arleigh Burke destroyer fights a peer surface threat today guess which is its weapon of choice, Harpoon? Nope, short ranged, subsonic. The Burke’s first choice is actually SM-6 which has a secondary ballistic anti-ship capability. It would spam the target with up to 30 missiles, overload its defences and either set that ship on fire or damage it’s sensor arrays with those relatively light warheads.

The main US Navy anti ship weapons are the MK48 ADCAP´s launched from their Nuclear Hunter Killer Submarines or JSOW/SLAM/SLAM-ER/Harpoon launched from Super Hornets, a force on force peer surface confrontation by an Arleigh Burke would be something that i would imagine the US Navy would strive to avoid, finaly, while you do have a point that the SM-6 brings a very interesting ashm capability i dont think that capability is available today across the fleet.

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And they don’t work as intended like THAAD failures to shoot down NK missiles flying over Japan.

Hokkaido, Japan, is Northeast of NKorea, the THAAD units are in South Korea.
Thats like saying that THAAD batteries in Romenia have failed because they coulndt intercept a ballistic missile shot from Kaliningrad that overflew Saint Petersburg in direction to Arkhangelsk.

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First since the B-52 is still a valued aircraft, why wouldnt an aircraft that flys twice as high and 4 times faster be better.

Because flying and maintaining a mach3 aircraft, one that had no obvious mission and weighted 50% more than a B-52, would have bankrupted the USAF.

Second, since the SR-71 was never shot down, why wouldnt the B-70 achieve the same results.

The SR-71 was retired in 1998, the Dragon Lady still flies, there´s a lesson in there.

Third, with all the large supersonic flying experience it would have had, cancelling it probably set aviation back 30 years. There is no reason we should not have supersonic transports flying all over the world right now.

It would have been such an invaluable experience for the civilian aviation having a great supersonic airframe flying around.
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That is absolute and total hogwash. Sputnik and RT both have total editorial freedom from the Russian govt. Abby Martin proved that on the air.

LOOOOOOLLLLLLLL

Oh, please!
Can you one single article just slightly critical, but just slightly critical of the Russian government in any of them?
When was the last time that RT covered, lets say, Tchetchenia and Abkhazia in any way that is not government scripted?

Compare that with the “hell ride” that any western government gets from their media…

I’ve never really understood how that’s supposed to work. The aircraft can project PIRATE FLIR imagery onto the Striker’s visor. Okay. But the FLIR would have a limited field of view. Just a forward cone, maybe +/-60 deg azimuth and +60/-30 deg in elevation. According to Scorpion, LDP input isn’t available or planned.

So how does it allow the pilot to look ‘through’ the fuselage of the EF for the VR effect?

It doesnt “look” through, the pilot doesnt see images, but only symbols, the sensor used is the radar.

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