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Published: 2007-12-15 01:37:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 1000; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 22
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Soviet Air Force MiG-25"Foxbat" armed with 4 "Anab" missiles of both beam riding and infrared seeking types,with the North American XB-70 Valkryie trisonic bomber that the Foxbat was originally intended to intercept and destroy. in the end,the U.S. "destroyed" the B-70 itself with a few strokes of a pen and a rubber stamp on a few pieces of paper...[PROJECT CANCELLED]Related content
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The models, the picture and both.
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next...."Meatbox" vs. "Doodlebug"......
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Beautiful aircraft, the Valkyrie, despite its likely vulnerability to high altitude interception. Think of what it might have been if updated. New, 25,000 lb. thrust engines, some modifications to improve stealthiness and cruise missile launching capability would have made it a different bird, I think.
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hopeless...obsolete before it even flew. too costly as well.
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a whole new ballgame after 1960.....
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If we had had any internet billionaires, maybe one could have bailed out the program by converting the XB-70 design into an SST? Then booking passage on the Concorde would have looked cheap by comparison.
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never would have worked,at least not profitably. it would have eaten a lot of fuel,parts and people.
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Yeah, sure would. And it would have all been for naught when the early enviro-freaks started claiming that SSTs would poison the atmosphere with X-rays, turn clouds green and make it rain speghettios.
With today's jet engines, though, it might have been somewhat more doable.
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another one of their silly arguments against SST,s was about sonic booms killing unborn babies...hmmmmm...since 1947? yeah,ok...
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I only heard a sonic boom for the first time a few years ago, I think. I was in LA, staying at Schirm's joint, and was sleeping late I think. Then there was a muffled boom right above the roof. I figured it out, but for a few seconds it was puzzling. Never heard one in Toronto. We only have one sizable military airbase near the city, and it's about 150 miles east. Military jets almost never fly over, not at any speed anyway.
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heard and made quite a few in my time!
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I remember going to the USAF Museum in Ohio and seeing the Valkyrie at the experimental hangar. I was a little young to fully understand it off the bat, but know I think "Wow, I saw the only example of that jet that remains". It was something else
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a rather expensive exhibit,polished to perfection and never to fly again...
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I remeber the starfighter pilot that got too close to one of the two Valkyrie prototypes and skip crashed across tthe top if it's right vertical stabilizer fin and killed everbody! I also remember the captured Foxbat that we sent back the the Russians in about 30 different crates! It's top war emergency speed could only be maintained for several minutes, and the avionics were so primitive there they were still using vaacuum tubes in the cockpit! I used to play a wargame called Foxbat and Phantom, and shoot the damn things down all the time.
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Foxbat and Phantom....i think that game was from the 70s! vacuum-tubes do have a few advantages,such as not being susceptible to EMP...!but the MiG-25 wasn,t really the Big Bad Superfighter that everybody had believed it to be for so many years.
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True, it wasn't, yes, an inheritance from my older brothers left behind in a closet for me to enjoy!
I was an avid wargamer in highschool, Chess was my favorite though!
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just cause a game,s a bit older,doesn,t mean it,s no good anymore...
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the older ones actually took some time and skill to play,as opposed to today,s silly video-games that practically just play themselves.
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my kid has rotted his brains on that junk,as well as millions more kids worldwide.
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Well there are some gaming platforms that are good too, I think. But, it is better always in the formative years though I would say to get plenty of fresh air, sunshine and excercise.
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like kids from my generation used to do before all that stuff even existed...!
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we knew how to have fun...!
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Yay! Fun! 
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I went through a few bikes myself
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and i went through a few cars...
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Not really from a price or prestige standpoint, but from a performance one, I had 1974 Firebird Formula 400, that had headers, and positraction, and leather and the big tires in back.
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my fastest was a barely-street-legal Mazda Rx-7 with a 3-rotor Wankel...very dangerous toy!
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Sounds like, did it Fishtail on peel out?
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sometimes,yes. lots of power for a little car!
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too old for that sort of thing now. when i swapped out the Rx for the RR,it was like transferring from a slick little fighter{speed and danger} to the Presidential VIP transport.{comfort and safety}
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Yeah, but a Rolls is the pinnacle of an heirloom legacy and the height of prestige. No finer auto made.
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A matter of taste I suppose, RR is far more recognized everywhere, I would think.
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even Maybach? they are pretty well up there too.
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Great combination, my 2 favourite Cold War-era '
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so much history,and sadly forgotten,or never even learned by so many others.....thanks for the fave!
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No problem 
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McNamara FUBAR,d on a lot of things.....and my country had to pay for it. the B-70 was actually obsolete anyway. we found out the Hard Way{the U-2 Incident} that the USSR had SAM,s that could reach 6-figure altitudes.
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True...I still think the XB-70 had a place in test flights though. And look at the SR-71, how long did that remain in active service ( and how much did it cost to develop afresh? )
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cost....{for further particulars,apply to the CIA....}
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