A story on the front page of CNN.com caught my eye today:
SR-71 Blackbird: The Cold War spy plane that’s still the world’s fastest airplane
The byline reads: During the Cold War, this plane could fly higher and faster than any other — and 55 years after its first flight, it still does.
The article goes on to state – truthfully – that the Lockheed SR-71 was designed in the late 1950s, and, “To this day, it holds the records for the highest altitude in horizontal flight and the fastest speed for a non-rocket powered aircraft.”
Of course, that would be for UN-CLASSIFIED “non-rocket powered aircraft.”
Because if I understand this correctly, we’re supposed to believe that after 55 long years and all of those trillions upon trillions of defense dollars spent on high-tech aerospace technology R&D…this crappy 55 year old technology is the best we can do?
All of those tax dollars flushed right down the toilet, then, right? Is that what they want us to believe? You really think the greatest scientists in the world working 24/7 with virtually unlimited government funding couldn’t have figured something else out by now? It boggles the mind how gullible people can be.
Folks, those of use who’ve studied the Intelligence Community understand that for every INTEL operation there is what’s called a ‘cover’ story – for public consumption – and then there’s the REAL story. That’s the stuff they don’t want you to know. So you don’t. It doesn’t take a genius to figure this out, really. But the ignorant American public never gets it. They always seem shocked – shocked, I tell you! – when the facts come out many years later…and only then if by chance some intrepid independent investigative reporter happens to accidentally come across an item left mistakenly un-redacted in a Freedom of Information Act request or something.
I stress independent reporter, because no mainstream (or even ‘alternative press’) reporters will go near a story like this. The US media will go out of its way to suppress these facts, in any case, because there are so few mainstream journalists who haven’t already been bought off.
Normally, and by design, the public never finds out The Truth about anything the Intelligence Community (IC) really does unless a whistleblower like Edward Snowden comes forward or another WikiLeaks shows up. And that will soon be totally impossible because all of the whistleblower protection laws will be repealed and the lid will well and truly come down…and we already know what happened to WikiLeaks.
Slowly but surely the USA is shutting down all outlets of True information, to the point where virtually everything is fake – including the ‘fake’ news, of course…which includes CNN, NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, CBS, and ABC…not mention FOX.
At least FOX never pretended to be news.
But back to my original point: how dumb do they think we are? Considering all the technological advances we’ve seen in the last 50 years, Our Rulers are still pushing the ridiculous idea that we can do no better than the 55 year old SR-71 when it comes to aerospace technology. Sad. Think about all the shit you’ve seen just in your lifetime…and tell me what 50 year old tech you’re still using today.
Of course, most of the unwashed masses have never heard of the AURORA SPACE PLANE. They are completely unaware that the successor to the SR-71 has been in commission for over 30 years now and it can fly twice as fast as the ancient Blackbird.
The only real purpose the SR-71 serves anymore is for the sake of propaganda…to help continue to propagate the myth – mostly for American consumption – that with all of the resources available to the Pentagon and all the billions spent by all those humungous defense contractors on R&D, including trillions more from the secret ‘black budget,’ we haven’t been able to build anything faster than the Blackbird in over 5 decades. But no wonder: CNN is still peddling this fantasy after all this time. They are no different than the rest, falling in lock step with the party line…
Aviation Week & Space Technology first broke the AURORA story way back in March 1990, when the term “Aurora” had been inadvertently included in the 1985 U.S. Defense budget, as a line item of $455 million for “black aircraft production” in FY 1987.
But even before then, when I was living in LA in the mid-1980s there were local news reports of strange aircraft, huge sonic booms, and odd, loop-shaped contrails over Southern California. At the time, industry observers theorized the U.S. already had the technological capability to build a Mach 5 (hypersonic speed) replacement for the aging Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, code-named AURORA.
Media reports in the UK and other civilized countries suggested the US had already developed such an aircraft. They referred to the Blackbird as ‘aging’ even back then!
Any idiot who knows the slightest thing about how the US military operates (or any military, for that matter…) understands implicitly that if there wasn’t a fully operational replacement for the SR-71 already in service, the Blackbird would have never been made public.
Consider that the USA would never concede the high ground of space to anyone, let alone Russia or China – and they have stated as much repeatedly over the years. Ronny Raygun’s ‘Star Wars’ concept was big news over thirty years ago. That was another cover story. We’ve gone way beyond that now, put it that way.
“President” tRumps’ new joke Space Command is simply another smokescreen for something that has already existed for a very long time. I just can’t belabor this point enough: simple common sense will tell you that in April 2020 the fastest thing the US government has in its vast arsenal isn’t some aging spy plane from the 1950s. OK?
And there is no way in hell that in this day and age the best the mighty US government can do is fork over 60 million Euros to Russia so they can launch our astronauts into space. It simply defies logic that we would be that far technologically behind the rest of the world…and we’re NOT. It’s just all secret. But we’re trained not to use critical thinking in this country, so there. The fucking Space Shuttle was obsolete before its first flight.
The cover story can be hugely expensive, yes, but the façade must be kept up at all costs. There is too much at stake. Our perceived enemies might know our true strength…and the public must never find out about FREE ENERGY.
The government can and does keep secrets…very well, indeed, thank you. Just ask anyone who’s worked in the classified realm. The example people always refer to is the fact that no one knew about the Stealth fighter for a decade before it was finally made public following the Gulf War. But that is only one example. There are many.
And if the word from insiders can be believed, even the AURORA is outdated now. There’s something called the TR3-B ASTRA which apparently relies on anti-gravity technology for propulsion. The TR3-B is the black, triangular craft which has been seen all over the world for the last 30-odd years. Godonlyknows what that thing is capable of.
Rest assured the Pentagon loves it when unwitting citizens mistake our super high tech military vehicles for some kind of alien spacecraft. They’re perfectly happy to perpetuate that myth…
The Truth is out there…but sometimes it’s right here on earth. We’re just too dumb to figure it out!