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...but that worked well. Where U.S. aircraft of comparable speed, such as the SR-71 Blackbird were built of titanium, the MiG-25 was made of stainless steel. Its radar w

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...mely fast, but have reduced observability built in. This was to become the SR-71 Blackbird. An assumption was that a sufficiently fast aircraft, with reduced signatur

...telligence but possibly also for signals intelligence. A limited number of SR-71 Blackbird sorties were flown for strategic imagery, and fighter-reconnaissance aircra

.... The KC-135Q, for example, was a variant for refueling the now-retired [[SR-71 Blackbird]], which used a special fuel that had to be kept separate from the main fue

...tirement threats before, operating long after its assumed successor, the [[SR-71 Blackbird]]. Regardless of the final disposition, it never lose its place in aviation

...es Webb, Jr.]], resigned over this issue. The Air Force would retire its [[SR-71 Blackbird]] and deactivate a tactical fighter wing.

|style="padding-left:0.5em;"|J-58 (SR-71 Blackbird jet engine)<ref>[http://www.marchfield.org/sr71a.htm Aircraft: Lockheed SR- The [[SR-71 Blackbird]]'s [[Pratt & Whitney J58]] engines were rather unusual. They could convert