The National Interest website expected that the American plane "SR-72", which has been developed for years by Lockheed Martin, will "revolution" in the world of aviation.
The impact report says that the run that the company expects to be ready to fly in 2025 will be the "fastest" in the world thanks to digital development and other improvements that will be much better than the first model "SR-71 Blackbird" that was retired in 1998.
The SR-71 Blackbird was a hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft and is still the fastest manned jet-engine aircraft in the Army.
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In 2013, the company announced the start of creating a new supersonic, but unmanned aircraft, with advanced modifications that improve its capabilities in reconnaissance as well as providing support during combat missions.
In June 2017, Lockheed Martin announced that it would be ready in 2020, then returned in late 2018 to say that a prototype would be able to fly by 2025, with the possibility of the aircraft officially entering military service in the 2030s.
The DA National Interest report says the unmanned aircraft will be able to "revolutionize everything and the concept of flight as we know it."
The SR-72 is almost twice as fast as the Blackbird, and while the original plane was able to fly at more than 2,200 miles per hour, which is three times faster than the speed of sound, the SR-72 It will be able to fly at a top speed of 4,603 miles per hour.
It will be able to do more than just reconnaissance missions, such as supporting the concept of a high-speed strike weapon (HSSW), delivering high-precision strikes against the high-risk threat environments of slower-flying manned aircraft.
Experts say the plane can reach anywhere in the world within an hour, according to Business Insider:
It can take off much faster than its slow-moving predecessor, which will be useful in quick response situations.
These techniques for producing a march in this format had not existed before, which slowed the project down for several years.
Executive Vice President Rob Weiss previously said: “For 20 years, we've been saying we're getting close to a hypersonic jet in two years, but all we can say now is that the technology is mature, and we're working hard to get that capability into a fighter jet as soon as possible. ".
The company's vice president, Jacques O'Banion, credited this potential to "digital transformation" without which "the aircraft you see would not have been made."
Even the engine itself “would have melted if we tried to produce it five years ago,” but now “we can digitally print this engine using an advanced cooling system built into the engine material itself.”
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