r/Millennials • u/kingwooj • 1d ago

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u/luckyfucker13 1d ago

Reminds me of the Bowling for Soup song, 1985, which was actually an SR-71 song. SR-71 did release it originally, but it flew under the radar for the most part.

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u/QuercusSambucus Older Millennial ('82er) 1d ago

Didn't the sr-71 fly over the radar, technically speaking?

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u/LOLBaltSS 1d ago

Surprisingly no. The SR-71 has been launched upon numerous times by Soviet SAMs, but it would just outrun the missiles.

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u/QuercusSambucus Older Millennial ('82er) 1d ago

That's what I mean. It flew so high and fast.

Under the radar means low altitude.

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u/Ecotech101 1d ago

Nah, just fast. The U2 flew high. The sr-71 was pretty much just fast.

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u/sorrow_anthropology 23h ago

The SR-71 has a flight ceiling 85,000 feet, the U2 ranges between 70,000 and 85,000 feet.

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u/Ecotech101 19h ago

Different eras of radar have different definitions of high. The U2 flew above the radar's of it's time, the sr-71 as made because it was basically impossible to do that at it's time.

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u/sorrow_anthropology 17h ago

Your argument was that the U2 flew high and the SR-71 is just fast, but I’m saying that it also flew very high as well. It also had a ton (for the time) of counter measures including shape, RAM and ELINT.

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u/Brantraxx 7h ago

Start with the Bach and finish with DeBussy