'Aurora' hypersonic sucessor to SR-71 Blackbird 'revealed'

'Aurora' hypersonic sucessor to SR-71 Blackbird 'revealed'

UK broadcaster BBC picked through the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in
the UK Air Defence Region report, written between 1996-2000 by a
Ministry of Defence intelligence expert and kept secret until last
month. The broadcaster's showcase television news analysis programme
Newsnight claims that although released under the country's freedom of
information act, parts that remain censored lend credibility to claims
that the US military has developed a cryogenic fuel-powered successor
to the SR-71 Blackbird supersonic jet.

A triangular jet with top speeds of Mach 6, thought to have been
dubbed Aurora at one time, has long been believed to have been
developed as part of the USA's Special Access, or "black" programmes.
The Aurora is likely to be have been developed by Lockheed Martin's
Skunk Works for Special Access programmes, located in Groom Lake,
Nevada.


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