SR-71 Blackbird

A lot. A LOT of money.

$33 million USD, before the Americans started using it. the price then became $34 Million USD

The SR -71 has no weapons. It is a recconaisance aircraft.

The Lockheed-Martin SR-71 Blackbird's top speed was Mach 3.5, or 3.5 times the speed of sound. that is 2664 miles per hour and 4287 kilometres per hour

The SR-71's J58 engines were most efficient at around Mach 3.2, since only 20% of the thrust was created by the engines, while the remaining 80% was done by Ramjet thrust where the spikes in front of the engine intakes would create a supersonic shockwave and would be fed into the outer part of the engine by the spikes retracting about 20 inches.

Max speed: Mach 3.4 (2,244 mph) at 80,000+ ft

Records:

absolute speed record of 1905.80993 knots (2,193.1669 mph) and

"absolute altitude record" of 85,068.997 feet

Started in 1946 by Admiral Chester Nimitz, Chief of Naval Operations.

Source: Wikipedia (Blue Angels)

Because they cost so much and the air force could only afford 32.

yes

The SR-71 was tested at groom lake test facility Nevada and a lot stayed there. then some in California

an act or instance of changing the direction of a moving object.

Depends on how fast the missle is.

Manufacturer: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Length: 107' 5"
Length of Nose Probe: 4' 11"
Wing Span: 55' 7"
Wing Area: 1,795 ft. sq.
Wing Aspect Ratio: 1.939
Wing Root Chord: 60.533
Wing Dihedral Angle: 0 degrees
Wing Chord: 0.00
Wing Sweep: 52.629 degrees
Inboard Elevon Area: 39.00 ft. sq.
Outboard Elevon Area: 52.50 ft. sq.
Total Vertical Rudder Area: 150.76 ft. sq.
Moveable Rudder Area: 70.24 ft. sq.
Rudder Root Chord: 14.803 ft.
Rudder Tip Chord: 7.833 ft.
Height: 18' 6"
Empty Weight: 59,000 lbs.
Maximum Weight: 170,000 lbs.
Fuselage Diameter: 5.33 ft.
Service Ceiling: 85,000'+
Maximum Speed: Mach 3.3+ (Limit CIT of 427 degrees C)
Cruising Speed: Mach 3.2
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whittney J-58 (JT11D-20A) with 34,000 lbs. of thrust.
Range: 3,200 nautical miles (without refueling)
Price:$33,000,000

spy satellites can do the reconnaissance

The SR-71 Blackbird was built by Lockheed-Martin.

which is now made in china

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics makes some of the worlds most advanced aircrafts. These planes range from Bombers to Fighters to Trainers to Reconnaissance planes.

Some of the more popular ones would be:

F-22 "Raptor"

F-35 "Lightning II" (Joint Strike Fighter Program)

F-117 "Nighthawk"

C-5 "Galaxy"

C-130 "Hercules"

U-2 "Dragon Lady"

SR-71 "Blackbird" (??)

There are many more aircrafts manufactured and co-manufactured by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. For a more detailed explanation and/or list, you might want to do a google search.

There are Blackbirds preserved and on display at 18-19 museums across USA and 1 in Britain

No. The "Blackbird" was a cold war era spy plane. Supposedly, NASA still has two flyable SR-71s at the Dryden Flight Research Center. All the rest are in museums.

The X-43A was a small unmanned test aircraft measuring just over 12 feet in length.[2]The vehicle was a lifting body design, where the body of the aircraft provides a significant amount of lift for flight, rather than relying on wings. The Blackbird was a large piloted aircraft used for high speed, high altitude recconaisance.

Lockheed Martin built the U-2 spy-plane, F-16, F-22, F-35, the AC-130 aircraft, the SR-71 Blackbird and the F-117.

"V" is the Tri-service designator for vertical or short take-off and landing.

They were introduced into service in 1966 and withdrawn in 1998. The first one flew in 1964.

In the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, a Smithsonian-affiliated space museum in Hutchinson, Kansas.

The blackbird was invented as a household item in the early 30's, then later the inventer added wings, the original "niger bird" now lies in the Kenyan museum of dam that Niga fast, the blackbird is a rare species and, is very hard

To find, mainly because it hits speeds of above 3 times the speed of sound.

The Blackbird can carry 20 tons of fuel wich is consumed after a 2 hour flight.