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Originally Posted by M21Sniper
I HIGHLY reccomend you read the book "Sled driver" by a former USAF SR-71 pilot. The SR-71 is the fastest and highest flying KNOWN operational A/C in the history of man...period. SR-71s have also photographed EVERY SQUARE INCH of the former Soviet Union during operational sorties.
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Wrong. Absolutely impossible for an SR-71 to scan every inch of Russia, maybe border regions, like Kamchatka, but not the heart. The most an SR-71 could possibly go was less than 2000 km into Russia and back. You don’t have to read any pilot’s testimonial because technically its just impossible for an SR-71 to fly from say Vladivostok to Moscow or Karachi to Severnaya Zemlya unless Russian IL-78s refueled it 3 and 4 times on the way and neither would its camera look down angle coverage be large enough to suffice what a satellite could do.