{"id":132996,"date":"2021-12-24T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T19:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/the-worlds-fastest-planes-successor-will-reach-over-4600-miles"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T19:23:23","slug":"the-worlds-fastest-planes-successor-will-reach-over-4600-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/the-worlds-fastest-planes-successor-will-reach-over-4600-miles","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Fastest Plane\u2019s Successor Will Reach Over 4,600 Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-fastest-planes-successor-will-reach-over-4600-miles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin\u2019s new hypersonic plane is expected to travel at Mach 6.<\/p>\n<p>The Lockheed Martin SR-72, which is rumored to be the world\u2019s fastest plane, is expected to make a test flight in 2025, eight years after its private proposal in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>SR-72 will be the successor of the SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest manned aircraft which smashed speed records in 1974 and was retired by the U.S. Air Force back in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>The SR-72, or \u201cSon of Blackbird\u201d is envisioned as an unmanned, hypersonic and reusable, reconnaissance, surveillance, and strike aircraft. The striking ability of the aircraft comes to the fore as it will, reportedly, support Lockheed Martin\u2019s novel High-Speed Strike Weapon (HSSW). The aircraft\u2019s combat capabilities enable it to strike its target in dangerous environments that are deemed risky for slower manned aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Since the technology to build the aircraft was overly ambitious when the project was announced in 2013, the project had to wait for several years.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/the-worlds-fastest-planes-successor-will-reach-over-4600-miles\">Continue reading \u201cThe World\u2019s Fastest Plane\u2019s Successor Will Reach Over 4,600 Miles\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin\u2019s new hypersonic plane is expected to travel at Mach 6. The Lockheed Martin SR-72, which is rumored to be the world\u2019s fastest plane, is expected to make a test flight in 2025, eight years after its private proposal in 2013. SR-72 will be the successor of the SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest manned aircraft [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1511,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-surveillance","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}