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- From: mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: KH-11 pictures -
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.001628.6595@wdl.loral.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 00:16:28 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.000917.22206@qualcomm.com> <1993Jan10.122415.20405@bernina.ethz.ch> <1993Jan11.070508.12914@qualcomm.com>
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- In article <1993Jan11.070508.12914@qualcomm.com> karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) writes:
- >And you have to consider the competition, such as a stealth airplane
- >designed specifically for reconnaissance. Airplanes can get a lot
- >closer to the subject than satellites, and they let you easily change
- >the instruments to suit the mission. They can also loiter in one spot
- >for a long time.
- >Now if you could keep the existence of such a plane secret, perhaps by
- >retiring your known spy airplanes with great fanfare and issuing a
- >cover story about how they've been completely replaced by satellites,
- >then you might actually be able to use it repeatedly before your
- >adversary even begins to suspect you have it. Of course, you might
- >have to make up another cover story to explain all those sonic booms
- >heard on a regular basis here in Southern California...
-
- Such a replacement for the SR-71 exists. I believe that the name of the
- new plane is "Aurora" and that there has been at least one article speculating
- about it in Air&Space.
-
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- Mark Biggar
- mab@wdl1.wdl.loral.com
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