SR-71: 4,000 Missiles Could Not Take Down This Spy Plane

SR-71 Spy Plane Able to Evade Enemy Air Defenses Without a Scratch: The SR-71 Blackbird put the capital “E” on evasion. The enemy fired missiles at it at least 4,000 times during its lifetime and all the interceptors missed their mark, No SR-71 was damaged or lost. For example, even though an SA-2 surface-to-air-missile was slightly faster than the SR-71 … Read more