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Originally Posted by Captain Drunk
At Mach 6, the Mig-105 "Spiral" still walks the talk better than anything else. Although SR-71s were intended to overfly Russia, they never did because Russia had the technology to shoot them down - 9 U-2s are known to have been shot down. The Syrian and Iraqi Foxbats weren't the Mach 3 recee versions. At Mach 3+ Russian and IAF Foxbats have always eluded F-4s, F-16s, F-15s, and the works in all their 25 years of service.
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Well have you ver heard of the X 15 it goes mach 7. Hyper X is mach 10.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-15 True Blackbirds havent flown over the most heavily defended areas but some areas. It penetrated many more countries airspace and not shot down a single time by fighters or sams unlike the foxbat. Well the foxbats that eluded them were not necessarily well trained or equipped. Against well trainded, and well equipped adversaries the Foxbat has been shot down (Israel & US).