"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message
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I suspect the SR-71s have flown intentionally in Swedish airspace.
The
Blackbirds did however run a regular route in the international
airspace, at times very close to the Swedish border.

Swedes did intercept SR-71, though. With careful calculated
interception
a Swedish fighter did streak into intercept position and got a
radar
lock. The SR-71 flights over the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland
stopped
for several weeks after that with the USAAF trying to find out how
the
Swedes could do that.

First, with an absolute maximum ceiling of about 65K feet, how could
a
Draken have acheived a radar lock on a SR-71 flying at its
operational
altitude (the ol' "in excess of 85K feet" bit)?

An altitude difference of 20 000 ft is less than 4 miles.
If the SR was cruising at 100 000 ft that's still only 6.6 miles.
Any radar has more range than that, even looking up.

OK, I should have rephrased--how could the Draken have posed an actual
threat to the SR? And, I'd be mightily surprised if said Draken was
actually
operating at its tippy-top ceiling capability...

Brooks


I would think a head on-shot after a pop-up intercept would have a
meaningful Pk if the intercept was run perfectly. The problem is getting
to
the right point in time and space to take the head-on shot.

I'd think head-on the SR would likely present a pretty small RCS (it was
after all known for being rather stealthy for its day)--couple that with its
speed, the interceptor's speed (i.e., one heck of a closure velocity), and
the idea that the Draken would have to be lugging at best a couple of Rb
27/28 (read as "Falcon") AAM's, and I don't see it as very doable. Color me
dubious.

Brooks


KB