The fastest plane to ever fly retired from service decades ago. When the American-made SR-71 Blackbird was introduced during the Cold War, its innovative technologies, electronics, and avionics pushed ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Swedes’ Saab Viggen fighter once became the closest to ever shooting down the famed Blackbird, even achieving missile lock and visual contact. The SR-71 Blackbird ...

The jet that outran its era did more than set speed records; it rewrote the rules of how humans could move, spy and survive at the edge of space. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird turned raw velocity into ...

Key Points and Summary - Lockheed’s SR-71 was designed to be untouchable—fast, high, and hard to see. Over the Baltic, however, Sweden’s Saab JA-37 Viggen proved uniquely capable of radar-locking and ...