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The jet so fast it could outrun missiles
Developed in the early 1960s under intense Cold War secrecy, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird became the fastest jet-propelled aircraft ever built, capable of exceeding Mach 3.3 at altitudes above 90,000 ...
In 1986, during the height of the Iran-Iraq War, a squadron of Iranian F-5 Tiger II fighters was sent on a mission they were never meant to win - intercepting an Iraqi MiG-25 Foxbat, one of the ...
The fastest military aircraft ever built—from the SR-71 Blackbird to the MiG-25 Foxbat—were designed during the Cold War to outrun missiles, evade defenses, and intercept threats at extreme speeds ...
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