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Originally Posted by Glyn
It most assuredly is, which is why so few were built. Perhaps at the time of the XB-70s life the USAF didn't have quite so many bean counters, or the strategists realised that SAMs were being developed to a point where speed alone was not the answer. I simply don't know the reason why it was dropped.
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I think a fix for the skin separation problem was not within the limits of the technology of the day.
High speed SAMs and ICBMs signed the death sentence