[Milsurplus] U-2 and SR-71A

Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:10:37 -0600

At 11:00 AM 1/29/2003 -0600, mikea wrote:

>Wasn't it an F-104 that shot itself down by running into the
>stream of slugs that it had discharged?

May have been a F-104

>It sure illustrates the principle that the weapon needs to go
>faster than the weapons platform. Which brings up the interesting
>question of just _what_ missile, back then, was fast enough that
>the YF-12A wouldn't drop it off the 0-length rails and then run
>right over it.

The only thing that I remember about the missile was that it was built
by Hughes.

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