How Top Gun: Maverick's Darkstar may have fooled China

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The long-awaited “Top Gun: Maverick” will fly into theaters later this month, and while most of the movie features very real U.S. Navy aircraft, there’s one exotic platform aviation buffs might not recognize: the hypersonic Darkstar.
Darkstar may not be a real airplane, but it certainly looks the part-so much so that the Navy apparently told Top Gun’s producer, legendary filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer, that China re-oriented spy satellites to get a glimpse of the full-size mock-up they built for filming. How did they pull that off? Well... with a bit of help from Lockheed Martin's legendary Skunk Works.
Special thanks to Paramount Picture and Lockheed Martin for the use of their promotional materials in this video.
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@Bad_Wolf_Media
@Bad_Wolf_Media Жыл бұрын
Five, 10 years from now, we'll all look back and make videos about how Lockheed and the movie makers fooled us all by showing the real, operational Darkstar aircraft while pretending it was just a mock-up.
@BrianBourgeois-
@BrianBourgeois- Жыл бұрын
Yeah, if they’re showing it to you in a movie. Then it’s already operational.
@PunxTV123
@PunxTV123 Жыл бұрын
they just lying lol cause they got caught
@thewarroom1944
@thewarroom1944 Жыл бұрын
Well, the F-22 started development in 1989 I think and it was first flown in 1999 and then officially put into the Air Force in 2005, so yeah, if Skunk Works is giving us this, then the real thing must already be operational to some point.
@MrGriff305
@MrGriff305 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely right!!
@artiek1177
@artiek1177 Жыл бұрын
Wouldn’t be surprised. Or per chance this was an earlier prototype of what they may have built.
@cenccenc946
@cenccenc946 Жыл бұрын
somewhere in Eastern china, some Chinese "engineers" are scratching their heads at some fuzzy photos the bosses just sent them with a note that says, "build this or else". 😆
@willwozniak2826
@willwozniak2826 Жыл бұрын
good one dude!!!
@robandcheryls
@robandcheryls Жыл бұрын
😂
@SmR8008
@SmR8008 Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@PD-we8vf
@PD-we8vf Жыл бұрын
No they get full blueprints from the CCP spies getting their masters in engineering from every university in the USA.
@shawlork
@shawlork Жыл бұрын
Totally right lol
@Fister_of_Muppets
@Fister_of_Muppets Жыл бұрын
Just saw the movie last night in theater. First impressions of seeing the SR-72/Darkstar/Aurora whatever you want to call it, you could tell (in the hangar) it wasn't CGI. For those who haven't seen the movie, go see it. If you liked the original Top Gun, you'll love the sequel. The cinematography is incredible.
@1crzflyer
@1crzflyer Жыл бұрын
CGI made dinosaurs look real 15 years ago.. you think CGI can't make a inanimate object look real?
@perrysaunders6729
@perrysaunders6729 Жыл бұрын
@@1crzflyer the dinosaurs werent cgi, they were puppets so they seemed more real
@BrapBrapDorito
@BrapBrapDorito Жыл бұрын
@@1crzflyer did you not watch the video? The filmmakers worked with skunkworks to make a full size model of the SR72. The SR72 in Maverick is literally NOT CGI.
@ViewThis.
@ViewThis. Жыл бұрын
I've never seen Top Gun. I'm afraid to. The theme song says it will take me into the danger zone. I don't want to go there🥺
@ViewThis.
@ViewThis. Жыл бұрын
@Latest Obsession Watch? Oh. I thought it would be Real !! 😁😆
@nobodistribe6092
@nobodistribe6092 Жыл бұрын
My dad worked at Lockheed most of my life and had a "top secret" security clearance. They would send people to interview the neighbors to make sure he didn't share any secret information. He used to bring me these extremely powerful magnets they would recover from destroyed hard drives. I was a kid at the time and loved playing with them.
@4295jake
@4295jake Жыл бұрын
My dad worked on the F1-17A when it was Top Secret. He had a lot of cool stories growing up. He had a cover story and didn’t even know where he worked because it was a black site.
@NarasimhaDiyasena
@NarasimhaDiyasena Жыл бұрын
Jake_916_ F117 is based on the design from the Anti-Gravity Craft that crashed in Roswell according to the daughter of an Commanding Officer tasked with recovery and R&D who kept a cryptic journal. Craft came from Zeta Reticula. One survivor was code named EBE. The Triangular craft are not as advanced as the ‘flying saucers’. The Saucers are based on the Nazis reverse engineering the Vimana’s found in Tibet, Afghanistan, and India which were used by our Parent race we now call Gods in Indo-European ‘myth’. The SS search for ‘Aryan Origins’ has zero to do with white supremacy, and everything to do with the Gods. The White Supremacy label was design to memory hole the subject to prevent further discussion. Aryan in Germanic derived from Airyan in Avestan (Iranic) derived from Arya in Sanskrit (Indic) meaning Noble. Honorific title used by the Persians in particular in reference to both Buddha and the Asura/Ahura/Æsir which were the general terms referring to the Gods by region. Term God itself derived form Kho in Avestan meaning Master. Look up Shambhala and Airyanem Vaejah if you’d like. If you would like to learn more about occult history, Aryans, Atlantis, Vimana’s, and the Nazis investigation into it all, I suggest Robert Sepehr.
@Kenny-yl9pc
@Kenny-yl9pc Жыл бұрын
@@4295jake But why do they paint them black? What is the reasoning behind it? Because black paint has limited capacity in reflecting light and that makes it invisible to the human eye? What do you think is the reason for the black site?
@hueghh3775
@hueghh3775 Жыл бұрын
@@Kenny-yl9pc It may be IR baffling or something. Color isn’t usually indicative of function; one of the only exceptions I know of was the reflective plating on bombers set to drop nuclear weapons during WW2.
@Kenny-yl9pc
@Kenny-yl9pc Жыл бұрын
@@hueghh3775 Hey thank you for your serious input. My comment was not serious it was a bad joke regarding his remarks on the black site. Secret military or intelligence facilities are called "black sites" and I was making fun of it by implying that it is some kind of black paint. But nevertheless thank you for your reply =)
@jenniferstewarts4851
@jenniferstewarts4851 Жыл бұрын
This is NOT the first time stuff like this has happened. From the movie Stealth, the FA-37 Talon got mistaken as a real aircraft not just by foreign but domestic intelligence groups. Pictures of the full sized model on a us carrier deck, had even Janes trying to figure out if it was a real fighter. But even before that... One mock up almost lead to a war. Libya got wind of Tunisia building a large tank, hidden in the desert... overflights showed a huge tracked vehicle near the border and prompted Libya to threaten Tunisia with a pre-emptive strike and invasion if they did not pull back their... Jawa Sand Crawler. No joke, the model as not a full sand crawler, just the tracks, but it was enough to convince Libya it was some sort of military vehicle being built and positioned for a strike against them.
@hf117j
@hf117j Жыл бұрын
Wait they made full scale Talon props? Those looked awesome and I would love to have an rc version
@jenniferstewarts4851
@jenniferstewarts4851 Жыл бұрын
@@hf117j Oh yeah, they made full scale models then filmed them being raised and lowered on the carrier elevator as well as sitting on the flight deck, and on the catapult. A sailor took some pictures of it and posted it online... but didn't put context in... So poof, janes tactical information service... China, germany, and the uK instantly thought the US was sea trialing some new stealth aircraft. LOL.
@hf117j
@hf117j Жыл бұрын
@@jenniferstewarts4851 Lol, I wanna see those props in person. Maybe take pics with them. Also I want a full scale Pelican prop from Halo built
@hoppermantis7615
@hoppermantis7615 Жыл бұрын
Did the same with Space:Above And Beyond's. HammerHead Fighter. The same craft janes ' Revell & Popular Mechanics was in a lawsuit with the Government... AND WON... Until 9/11 Rules changed with them being raided and charged with a cease & desist.
@hf117j
@hf117j Жыл бұрын
@@hoppermantis7615 I haven't seen that
@markmatsushima7356
@markmatsushima7356 Жыл бұрын
There was a show back in the 90s called Space Above and Beyond. Essentially a near future where the US Navy and Marine Corps operated in space, etc. The workhorse of the show was the SA-58 “Hammerhead” exo-endo atmospheric fighter attack craft. The show had to create several full sized realistic mock ups for use in filming. Apparently they were so realistic that the Russians and PRC were caught snooping around and photographing them!
@jetvulcan2020
@jetvulcan2020 Жыл бұрын
was going to mention this myself. I watched that show when it aired.
@markmatsushima7356
@markmatsushima7356 Жыл бұрын
Correction SA-43
@draegertech
@draegertech Жыл бұрын
loved that show!!! SAaB and the X-Files!! 2 of my favourites form the early 90's!
@johnpaul252003
@johnpaul252003 Жыл бұрын
I say better safe than sorry
@roadglide1745
@roadglide1745 Жыл бұрын
Have they put out any DVD's yet ?
@jewelfewel
@jewelfewel Жыл бұрын
You know if they are disclosing SR-72 then it's already outdated. Declassifying aircraft means its secrecy is no longer important, so they must have something better that is currently in service
@manticore4952
@manticore4952 Жыл бұрын
Usually if the Pentagon want to report on a plane early they will blur it or release a mock-up that looks somewhat the same. SR-72 as a concept was created before the SR-71 even entered test flight.
@MajinCanon
@MajinCanon Жыл бұрын
Mate... its just fantasy
@patrickdonovan2323
@patrickdonovan2323 Жыл бұрын
B-2 info being released for political purposes during 80s
@kagisocalvinramz3826
@kagisocalvinramz3826 Жыл бұрын
some of these ufo sightings are military projects
@kerbalairforce8802
@kerbalairforce8802 Жыл бұрын
F-117 flew for I think 11 years before it was declassified.
@PaulGuy
@PaulGuy Жыл бұрын
I remember back in the mid-80's, there was a "Stealth Bomber" model kit that was shaped like a flying wing. Then the plane was officially announced in 1988, looking surprisingly similar to the model kit.
@lordgarion514
@lordgarion514 Жыл бұрын
Flying wings go back a VERY long time, as far as airplanes go.
@nickl5658
@nickl5658 Жыл бұрын
B2 was not US first flying wing. There were flying wings since the late 1940s. The US built its first flying wing in 1947
@user-bi2ny9dc1n
@user-bi2ny9dc1n Жыл бұрын
Flying wing designs were discovered when Germany lost
@PaulGuy
@PaulGuy Жыл бұрын
Oh, I know about past flying wings, like the XB-35. I mean this model looked almost exactly like the B-2 specifically.
@cahg3871
@cahg3871 8 ай бұрын
@@user-bi2ny9dc1nI believe the company to build the flying wing was Horton.I could be mistaken,it’s been awhile since I first read about it.
@Yuki_Ika7
@Yuki_Ika7 Жыл бұрын
I would not surprised if "the real thing" is already flying in secret, but that is just my opinion, I cannot confirm or deny this
@55elledge
@55elledge Жыл бұрын
It's probably been flying for the better part of the last decade. It would explain when the government is releasing the "UFO" reports and videos. They need something to cover sightings of operation of the aircraft.
@csorbalaszlo1920
@csorbalaszlo1920 Жыл бұрын
we only know what they want us to know Btw if the USA already built and flew a 6th gen prototype fighter its mean they already has plans for the 7th gen fighter whats mean there is more coooool stuff
@michagrill9432
@michagrill9432 Жыл бұрын
Not this one but the SR72 looks awfully similar and we dont know if thats already flying or still kn development
@djl5634
@djl5634 Жыл бұрын
@@michagrill9432 it's flying. If u see it its 30to 40years old.
@michagrill9432
@michagrill9432 Жыл бұрын
@@djl5634 what?
@hardwickd
@hardwickd Жыл бұрын
The same thing happened with the 1982 Clint Eastwood movie "Firefox". The full size mock up attracted attention from the Russians. What is even funnier is that the jet in the movie was suppose to be a new advanced Russian fighter.
@DavidLLambertmobile
@DavidLLambertmobile Жыл бұрын
Firefox was based on a popular novel. After the popular Clint Eastwood film 🎬 The author put out a new sequel story; Firefox Down. Gant is seriously wounded & Firefox crashed in the snow, mountains.
@tomarnold7284
@tomarnold7284 Жыл бұрын
@@DavidLLambertmobile Firefox was great, but Firefox down was dragging, like a sour Hollywood sequel.
@PhantomFilmAustralia
@PhantomFilmAustralia Жыл бұрын
Satellites were turned onto the set of the Nicholas Cage movie, _Lord of War._ Production organized the assembly of fifty real military tanks for a shot, which was caught on satellite imagery, getting NATO and the leaders of some countries on edge. The film's production rented the tanks from an arms dealer. There was only a short period of time for director, Andrew Niccol get the shots of the tanks, as the the arms dealer had them scheduled for purchase to Libya.
@KevinColt
@KevinColt Жыл бұрын
Watched this movie 2 times already, gonna watch again tomorrow. Its just that good.
@asnark7115
@asnark7115 Жыл бұрын
As cringey and campy as the first one?
@60tpbrrrrtgaming
@60tpbrrrrtgaming Жыл бұрын
@@asnark7115 both top gun are great Its just you giving cringe comments
@SmokesKwazukii
@SmokesKwazukii Жыл бұрын
it cannot be stressed enough that so much of the flying in this film is real and that is just super cool
@kdrapertrucker
@kdrapertrucker Жыл бұрын
Lockheed Martin probably agreed to help so they could park it where pictures could be obtained either by passersby, or by satellite. A counter espionage tactic partially funded by the movie company.
@kdrapertrucker
@kdrapertrucker Жыл бұрын
Or...the movie is a cover for a real aircraft.
@qqqsfdf1232
@qqqsfdf1232 Жыл бұрын
@@kdrapertrucker or...that's what want you to think...
@generalripper7528
@generalripper7528 Жыл бұрын
@@kdrapertrucker Or the aircraft in the movie is deliberately designed the way that Skunk Works won't build it in real life, to mislead the Chinese.
@ktkace
@ktkace Жыл бұрын
I wont be surprised if the ACTUAL aircraft is revealed on the day of the global screening... just to flex on the CCP
@JoeOvercoat
@JoeOvercoat Жыл бұрын
Lockheed is in it for the product placement.
@Jon6429
@Jon6429 Жыл бұрын
Part of me thinks the SR72/ Darkstar featured in the trailer is highly accurate but have sneaky feeling the actual 'black' aircraft was retired some years ago and were on to version 73-74
@greymarck
@greymarck Жыл бұрын
And, it is shaped like a tic-tac
@jspla
@jspla Жыл бұрын
@@greymarck or a cube.
@e.sstudios1015
@e.sstudios1015 Жыл бұрын
@@greymarck Found and Explained
@hf117j
@hf117j Жыл бұрын
Honestly the government isn't that great at keeping secrets. If it's a secret it's probably just unannounced and nobody even questions the things in the sky anymore. Even when they know it's a secret plane the reaction is typically "Cool. Anyways."
@Jon6429
@Jon6429 Жыл бұрын
@@hf117j So true it hurts.
@cpuuk
@cpuuk Жыл бұрын
I liked the painted Skunk on the Darkstar, but for me, the 'woah' moment was where Tom's Kawasaki GPz900 quietly turned into an H2.
@Tao_Peace
@Tao_Peace Жыл бұрын
Fantastic movie! The way they can shoot movies these days is unreal! These actors physical condition with the flying was amazing! Beautiful filming with Val Kilmer and Tom! Those that have seen it will understand! Worth the wait!
@krysb7119
@krysb7119 Жыл бұрын
I helped build the F-117 for the movie Executive Decision. We built the full size mockup. at California City Airport. There were some helicopters from Edwards Air Force Base that flew over. They called to Edwards about a downed F-117. All of a sudden the airport had military personnel all over the place. Don't let this guy's words make this movie out to be more then it is. The X-1 in the movie The Right Stuff was a full scale model also built by the people I worked with. So was the Spruce Goose in the movie Rocketeer. The Howard Hughes racer and many more model's were built by these people. All models look authentic. That's why they get paid very well. I was paid $16,000 for 8 days working on the F-117.
@jtc1947
@jtc1947 Жыл бұрын
@ Krystal....Must have been VERY INTERESTING when all kinds of MILITARY PEOPLE show up and said, "WHERE;S DAH PLANE?"
@MichaelSHartman
@MichaelSHartman Жыл бұрын
Being a fly on the wall with the chance to see it done would be fascinating.
@PrograError
@PrograError Жыл бұрын
was that after the official reveal from the government ...
@krysb7119
@krysb7119 Жыл бұрын
@@PrograError Yes, but there was still a lot unknown (Top Secret). One of the reasons our friends hired my biological father. My biological father worked on the F-117 project.
@spvillano
@spvillano Жыл бұрын
@@jtc1947 sounds about right and the response being, "We're in an airport, you might want to try being a trifle more specific".
@5133937
@5133937 Жыл бұрын
So to clarify, did the PRC retask their satellite after their censors reviewed the movie and alerted their military about the Darkstar in the movie? Or, did they get wind of the Darkstar mockup via some other channel and try to photograph it, before learning from their censors it was just a movie prop? Either way it's pretty hilarious. I hope the studio and Lockheed tried to hide it from the satellite, to make the whole thing seem even more suspicious.
@angeluscorpius
@angeluscorpius Жыл бұрын
China can't lose. They will either a) Make a hypersonic aircraft BASED on what they think Darkstar is if it were real, or b) produce a new wolf warrior movie with a mock-up of a Darkstar like fictitios plane that they will claim is a real technological breakthrough by the Chinese... Or they will do BOTH! :-)
@PD-we8vf
@PD-we8vf Жыл бұрын
Hey wake up. The CCP produced this movie. Tencent media. Wake up sheeple.
@LordMekanicus
@LordMekanicus Жыл бұрын
Darkstar exists. That's all I am authorized to say.
@RogueAI
@RogueAI Жыл бұрын
@@angeluscorpius It would be pretty funny if the Chinese actually built a working hypersonic fighter based off Darkstar. Like the plot of Galaxy Quest.
@vcqrsfdwc1987
@vcqrsfdwc1987 Жыл бұрын
@@angeluscorpius meh surely murikkkans will win once again by copying DF-17 and filming another RaMbO moive good luck with ur agm183a, you'll need it since I heard its tests ain't going well
@austinhughes1924
@austinhughes1924 Жыл бұрын
I just saw the movie today.With my dad.And that “Darkstar” aircraft sure looked real to me.Or it was just insanely good CGI.
@Eserr7856
@Eserr7856 Жыл бұрын
It was a real plane built by the studio working with Skunkworks, it was flown by a blue angel pilot in the take off shot (not actually tom cruise)
@mobiusflammel9372
@mobiusflammel9372 Жыл бұрын
@@Eserr7856 Where did you read that it was flyable? I haven't seen anywhere that it was more than a mock up.
@Eserr7856
@Eserr7856 Жыл бұрын
@@mobiusflammel9372 I stand corrected. The low fly by over ed harris was filmed using a blue angel f18 and then they must've of superimposed the Darkstar digitally
@24934637
@24934637 Жыл бұрын
Best film I've seen for a long time. Obviously there ARE technical errors, but they can easily be ignored for the purposes of entertainment!
@hamyutsmeseta3841
@hamyutsmeseta3841 Жыл бұрын
INDEED 👍👍📽️💯
@RoboJediNate
@RoboJediNate Жыл бұрын
So the world's biggest defense contractor is... Hollywood? lol
@ianmacfarlane1241
@ianmacfarlane1241 Жыл бұрын
Well Lego is the World's biggest tyre manufacturer, so who knows?
@CakePrincessCelestia
@CakePrincessCelestia Жыл бұрын
One more in the same line: Russia's been sending the most heavy weapons to the Ukrainian army so far (literally hundreds of tanks, artillery units and IFVs being captured)... and they went from having the 2nd largest army in the world to having the 2nd largest army in Ukraine :)
@spvillano
@spvillano Жыл бұрын
@@CakePrincessCelestia tanks and guns don't make for having an army. Armies were boots, tanks and guns without troops just rust.
@hf117j
@hf117j Жыл бұрын
@@spvillano Then the Russian army is only 1/11th of their claims. Just the people enforcing the non retreat stuff.
@sloo6425
@sloo6425 Жыл бұрын
I would say, there's a Darkstar but it's unmanned and Skunkworks is hiding a real secret within the secret. Like they usually do and their secret area of design and stuff for testing is somewhere else in testing or operation.
@docprune9922
@docprune9922 Жыл бұрын
But you can tell us that..
@VanquishedAgain
@VanquishedAgain Жыл бұрын
idk why it would be unmanned. it doesn't really serve a purpose other than record setting so being unmanned would kind of make it irrelevant
@Nelo390
@Nelo390 Жыл бұрын
@@VanquishedAgain idk why it would be manned. it doesn't really serve a purpose other than record setting so being manned would kind of make it irrelevant
@andrewtoebbe3885
@andrewtoebbe3885 Жыл бұрын
@@VanquishedAgain perhaps it's never been manned period
@akfreed6949
@akfreed6949 Жыл бұрын
You're NOT thinking outside the box . It's rumored the "industry" is past jet and rocket technology . Think anti-gravity .
@philippschwartzerdt3431
@philippschwartzerdt3431 Жыл бұрын
Watched the Top-Gun Maverick with my son who is now turning 20, give or take about the age I was when I watched the first Top-Gun movie. Great Father-Son moment and the movie was indeed lot of fun.
@SilvanaDil
@SilvanaDil Жыл бұрын
If Skunk Works had the time to give to Hollywood to make an aircraft for a movie, they've already devised multiple aircraft for the US Military the world has yet to see.
@LoremIpsum1970
@LoremIpsum1970 Жыл бұрын
You forgot the U2... It still amazes me that the titanium for the SR71 came from the USSR. I wasn't much of a fan of the original film, but the training with F5s was interesting. And on that note, have you seen Ward Carroll's "The Secret Program That Hid an Even More Secret Program", I never knew MIGs were taken back to the US and used for training...
@trplankowner3323
@trplankowner3323 Жыл бұрын
The major reason for the existence of the program Mr. Carrol was involved with may well have been to use that program as cover for the F-117. DoD will spend an extreme amount of money on secrecy, or at least it did in those days. Still, DIA did an admirable job handling this recent and infamous Chinese defector. So perhaps there is still some professionalism and integrity in DoD, just not at the top.
@LoremIpsum1970
@LoremIpsum1970 Жыл бұрын
@@trplankowner3323 everything started going downhill in 1991...especially with taking our eye off the ball post 2001...
@trplankowner3323
@trplankowner3323 Жыл бұрын
@@LoremIpsum1970 Hmm...right after George H.W. Bush makes his greatest achievement with the military Reagan built and then promptly begins gutting said military because "peace dividend". Yeah, look at all the "peace" the last 30 years have brought us. Is there a lesson here???
@carlfromtheoc1788
@carlfromtheoc1788 Жыл бұрын
Oh my yes. Chuck Yeager wrung out a MiG-15 and when describing what he did to his Soviet counterpart some years later, the Soviet pilot turned white and told Yeager that when Soviet pilots tried those things, the MiG-15 departed controlled flight. Both the USSR and the USA benefited from testing the MiG-15 as it led to the concept of the entire horizontal stabilizers being all moving slabs.
@davidwheeler3397
@davidwheeler3397 Жыл бұрын
I’m sure that they are testing things so secret and way more advanced Anything they have such unknown advances
@markmatsushima7356
@markmatsushima7356 Жыл бұрын
I’ll add too that the “SR-72” bears a striking resemblance to the Testors model F-19 “Stealth Fighter” in the days we knew about the existence of stealth aircraft, but just before the F-117 came out in public
@jwenting
@jwenting Жыл бұрын
which was also depicted in the video game F-19. Which came first I don't know, loved that game.
@theroadtoamillion
@theroadtoamillion Жыл бұрын
They say it’s “fake” and “Cgi” but in reality there’s an entire fleet of darkstars in a remote location. Well played, well played. They didn’t create “space force” for nothing.
@akfreed6949
@akfreed6949 Жыл бұрын
Bunkerbitch created something that was already there many many years ago .
@dhuh6760
@dhuh6760 Жыл бұрын
Friendly Reminder that Space Force is listed as having 77 ships on Wikipedia
@dynestis2875
@dynestis2875 Жыл бұрын
@@dhuh6760 you mean the website that can be editted by the public?
@dhuh6760
@dhuh6760 Жыл бұрын
@@dynestis2875 The website that links all it's sources at the bottom, yes.
@davidgaminggallegos7674
@davidgaminggallegos7674 Жыл бұрын
My grandma's brother used to work at skunk works, I actually got a tour of the factory and everything, after they stopped manufacturing the f22 the line switched to ac130s and all I'm gonna say is that the ac130 is a lot bigger than people think
@glennquagmire3258
@glennquagmire3258 Жыл бұрын
Actually, the single-seat version for the CIA, the AR-12, was a little bit faster than the SR-71 when it came to air-breathing jets.
@majorborngusfluunduch8694
@majorborngusfluunduch8694 Жыл бұрын
*A-12
@JoeOvercoat
@JoeOvercoat Жыл бұрын
It’s basically variants of the same aircraft. Yes there are important differences, but those were either developmental differences or mission requirements.
@glennquagmire3258
@glennquagmire3258 Жыл бұрын
@@majorborngusfluunduch8694 , Thanks for the correction. So many project names, plane names, and variants.
@nerblebun
@nerblebun Жыл бұрын
@Glenn Quagmire: Lockheed's A-12 developed into the YF-12 which eventually developed into the SR-71 Blackbird. While in the Air Force 71-75, I maintained & operated Aircraft Arresting Barriers (Barrier Crew) at each end of the runways over-run as my secondary career field. When Nixon mined Haiphong Harbor in 71, the Air Force was put on high alert & began rotating aircraft all over the United States. I was fortunate enough to be working the flight-line when two SR-71 Blackbirds landed at Kingsley Field, Oregon. Was able to get up close to my favorite aircraft & talk briefly with the pilots and the Reconnaissance System Operator.
@dallasyap3064
@dallasyap3064 Жыл бұрын
Yes the A-12 could flew higher and faster than the SR-71, but the former was just an experimental aircraft with no operational mission. SR-71 was outfitted with all sorts of avionics and equipment for sophisticated reconnaissance missions.
@koshersalaami
@koshersalaami Жыл бұрын
I assume Skunkworks engineers didn’t put anything in the model that would give the Chinese or Russians real clues
@Horseshoecrabwarrior
@Horseshoecrabwarrior Жыл бұрын
I wouldn't be surprised if they put in features that would deliberately make the design worse than depicted but wouldn't be noticeable to most viewers. That seems like an engineer's sense of humor to me.
@MardukTheSunGodInsideMe
@MardukTheSunGodInsideMe Жыл бұрын
Associate Producer: The CIA
@PD-we8vf
@PD-we8vf Жыл бұрын
It is cute that you think there is no CCP spies in those companies working on the projects. 50% of engineering students at USA universities are Chinese.
@JM-nt5fm
@JM-nt5fm Жыл бұрын
The way it works is they use already released material relevant to hypersonic flight as the basis of design (for example the already released SR-72 artwork). They then make a more detailed model and clear it with management. It's done a lot for trade shows for models. Same thing here. No difference. It's pretty routine. The stuff that is the magic sauce geometry wise may be present but there's a great deal more than just the geometry to make the magic happen. Plus it's in the interest of LM, ADP, and the various branches of the military and other end users to attract new talent to LM. They pay poorly and are a emotional dumpster fire to work for so at least having the cool kid toys buys some attractiveness. I'm glad the producers chose to work with technocrats, maybe at least some aspects of the physics and engineering won't just be cringe worthy.
@Zaprozhan
@Zaprozhan Жыл бұрын
The designers and engineers, who are constantly restrained by physics, practicality, and budget, might have had a blast taking a week to design something for maximum coolness.
@mockngbrdy
@mockngbrdy Жыл бұрын
That Skunkworks logo is so cute. Also, are there teams involved whose sole purpose is to come up with cool names for aircraft? Because Darkstar is really awesome.
@georgespalding7640
@georgespalding7640 Жыл бұрын
One perfect Spring Day about 40 years ago at the annual March SAC Base Air Show I was among the 50,000 spectators milling about on the tarmac as it seemed this spectacular show was coming to a close. The Thunderbirds had done their amazing act and stunt planes had performed loops and rolls to the delight of the crowd, but the sounds of jets and propellers were no longer present, only a strange silence hung in the air. As I was thinking maybe it's time to go to the car something caught my eye coming from the North end of the Base at a low altitude.....Something Dark and moving very fast. A strange Sound was building from the distance but it seemed to come from far behind the Black Intruder and then only one heart beat later it was upon us....An Alien craft which abruptly raised its nose to the sky and with a Blast that hurt the ears went straight up unrelenting until it was out of Human sight. We left the Base soon after that but I'll never forget the spectacular entrance of the Blackbird.
@mech____
@mech____ Жыл бұрын
cant wait for the DCS world awacs radio menu to pop up in my head every time i hear darkstar in the movie lol honest journalism 👍keep up the good work!!
@mattfoss1652
@mattfoss1652 Жыл бұрын
Great video!! The term Darkstar was linked to the Aurora spyplane way back in the nineties. Stephen Douglas heard the name Darkstar on his radio when he photographed the famous doughnuts on a rope contrails in March on 1992. Supposedly the Darkstar/Aurora flew over his house.
@jspla
@jspla Жыл бұрын
on the Art Bell program.
@lv2465
@lv2465 Жыл бұрын
Pulse detonator engines.
@joshshanks4550
@joshshanks4550 Жыл бұрын
That true in 1988 Bob Lazar saw it at area 51
@hf117j
@hf117j Жыл бұрын
@@jspla Art Bell? Haven't actually heard of that one
@jspla
@jspla Жыл бұрын
@@hf117j It's called coast to coast AM. Good podcast last night they interviewed the guys out at Skin Walker Ranch. Art Bell started the show back in the 90s. He died and another host took over.
@simonlunt353
@simonlunt353 Жыл бұрын
I have just seen Top Gun maverick and I loved every minute of it as I remember the first Top Gun movie it’s a Big thumbs up for me 👍 can’t wait to get it on blu ray but you have to see it on the big screen 👏👏😊
@nixonsmateruby1
@nixonsmateruby1 Жыл бұрын
I saw something fly up the west coast of Scotland and it's got to be a new plane of some sort, but it flew faster than anything I have ever seen. I saw the vapour trail but not the plane and I couldn't hear it but the speed was incredible, and very low altitude. It was also daylight so nothing that was being flown secretly, just a black smudge with a long long long vapour trail.
@joeyopes6064
@joeyopes6064 Жыл бұрын
Same!!!! Black smudge with a long vapor trail but I saw it in New York one early morning
@asnark7115
@asnark7115 Жыл бұрын
Cue the chemtrail idiots..
@whyjnot420
@whyjnot420 Жыл бұрын
While the PRC is top down in its approach, how much do you think the different parts of the PRC actually know about the others? In other words; while the head knows what the hands are doing, the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing and vice versa. So it is entirely believable that the PRC could be involved in (at the political level at a minimum) and be fooled by the same movie production.
@trplankowner3323
@trplankowner3323 Жыл бұрын
In the PRC under Xi, information flows down, but not up, especially negative information. There may be cross talk from channel to channel, but it's unofficially discouraged.
@Laotzu.Goldbug
@Laotzu.Goldbug Жыл бұрын
@@trplankowner3323 bingo. He operates as a Hermit Emperor
@whyjnot420
@whyjnot420 Жыл бұрын
@@trplankowner3323 Yeah, I should have said "The head thinks it knows..." or something to that effect. Though the real point was about lateral communication of course. One thing though, it is really just bad information that doesn't go up the chain. Good reports, fake or real, do go up. And that is the real problem when talking about a top down structure where the lower tiers are literally scared for their lives.
@trplankowner3323
@trplankowner3323 Жыл бұрын
@@Laotzu.Goldbug Putin is very similar. It's a hazard of being a dictator with no checks on your power. There's just no incentive to bring the Big Guy bad news. It seems Putin didn't warn Xi about his "Special Military Operation" and Xi's people didn't warn him either. At first Xi and the Chinese were excited to watch the Russians crush Ukraine armed with Western weapons. Now it seems Xi won't take Putin's calls and had all their Russian built weapons taken out of service until they can be thoroughly check. lol So Putin is in the same basket as Biden now. If you're a major world leader and other world leaders won't take your calls, you're doing something wrong.
@trplankowner3323
@trplankowner3323 Жыл бұрын
@@whyjnot420 I didn't intend to criticize your comment, just put in my 2 cents. China is much more like you mentioned above. Russia, Putin only seems to kill the ones that might pose a treat. It's just that in Putin's kleptocracy, there's no profit in giving your superiors bad news about something, especially if their corruption is at fault. i.e.: thousands of Russian tanks that can't be put into combat because they've been stripped of parts that could be sold or the precious metals in them melted down for sale.
@artyaamadman5387
@artyaamadman5387 Жыл бұрын
Looking at this Made me remember about Aurora alpha in CnC generals
@annareismith6843
@annareismith6843 Жыл бұрын
I watch it and it did not disappoint me one bit. It went beyond my expectations. I remember watching the 1st one as a teenager at the Bremerton Washington downtown Admiral theater. It was Memorial Day and we were at the parade downtown and looked up and saw the sign saying Topgun. As we drove by in our car. My father asked me if I wanted to go see it. I almost said no. Only something inside me said I needed to go see this movie. They dropped me off. And I went in and watched it. And then they pick me up afterward. And that movie blow me away with how great it was. I watch it so many times in my life since then. I loved Fire Fox and Iron Eagle too. Saw both those with my father. It seems like those years are coming back to me now. So many great movies and I loved the 1980s. It was a time of innocents and we thought nothing was impossible. It was the best years of our nation. And this makes me believe we have more to come. Just before that, I watch the 1st Space shuttle blow up live on TV in my high school classroom. That was a crazy year.
@asnark7115
@asnark7115 Жыл бұрын
I personally thought the Charlie Sheen parody was better. If you're an adult and you still think the original TG was anything other than processed cheese with the corniest script and soundtrack since.. every cheesebag '80s movie; I don't know what to tell you. It was cool when I was 13, and totally retarded by the time I was 17. The Kenny Loggins-ing didn't do it any favors.
@cupofjoen
@cupofjoen Жыл бұрын
I watched the movie and the experience was terrific. I even booked the ticket few days before, so I can get the best seat. And believe me, I never regret every second of it!
@raythestingray1068
@raythestingray1068 Жыл бұрын
So the thing is, there has already been mock-ups of the same concept going around china since like 2015, it is/will be a high altitude hypersonic unmanned drone called the “shadow sword” or” 暗剑”. It was first shown off in the 2016 Zhuhai air show as a model, then it was shown in 2020s zhuhai air show as a full-scale model.
@RandomnessCreates
@RandomnessCreates Жыл бұрын
They're scared we got one of em?
@JIMJAMSC
@JIMJAMSC Жыл бұрын
Early/mid 90s KSSC Shaw AFB had Shaw fest airshow where they bring in a little of everything. They had a roped off section and in the middle were 3 landing gear in the triangle configuration. A sign said Stealth fighter. They went all in with warning signs and even put a MP standing there. Funny to see so many taking pictures and trying to "see" the invisible plane.
@troyjollimore4100
@troyjollimore4100 Жыл бұрын
Back in the late ‘80s we actually had an F-117 at a local air show. Complete with said Marine that confirmed he WOULD shoot me if I seriously tried to touch it! 😄
@JIMJAMSC
@JIMJAMSC Жыл бұрын
@@troyjollimore4100 I worked for my State's Aeronautics Commission which allowed me some inside access at events and on the ramp. KCAE Columbia SC had a B-2 Stealth stay over for it's dedication and naming to SC. Lets just say I was able to touch it... I had full access and oddly enough the plane had no extra security. I also touched AF1 on multiple occasions, the Pop mobile and flew top cover for Thatcher, Gen Schwarzkopf. Never a picture taker or autograph guy but took every op to touch, a tour or a flight/
@troyjollimore4100
@troyjollimore4100 Жыл бұрын
@@JIMJAMSC Was returning to Honolulu Int’l after an aerobatic flight when two National Guard F-15s did a VERY close pass with wing waggles going the other direction. When I mentioned how awesome it would be to get a flight in one of those, the plane owner complained that he was the State Aviation Inspector, and he was never offered the chance to fly backseat! 😄
@mechanomics2649
@mechanomics2649 Жыл бұрын
Underrated comment. Hilarious if true and entirely believable. It sounds like military humor.
@ziggy3237
@ziggy3237 Жыл бұрын
After watching your video, I picked up my phone, called my dad, and now me and him are gonna watch Top Gun Maverick Friday evening. Can’t wait 😆😆.
@MenaCourtadeProductions
@MenaCourtadeProductions Жыл бұрын
Such a great film in theaters love it every second of it
@edwardmusicman896
@edwardmusicman896 Жыл бұрын
Top Gun Maverick will be a big hit in China since they want to see the Dark Star aircraft. Thanks Jerry and Joe for this.
@badgamer2129
@badgamer2129 Жыл бұрын
Of course, if I remember when the first trailer came out and someone point out that they remove Taiwan flag and put China flag on Maverick jacket
@scarecrow108productions7
@scarecrow108productions7 Жыл бұрын
@@badgamer2129 those damn PRC Bastards!!!
@Llyrin
@Llyrin Жыл бұрын
Don’t forget Kelly Johnson @ Lockheed also made the U2.
@markshilobrit9756
@markshilobrit9756 Жыл бұрын
Great movie! Iwas very impressed with this sequel..36 years later. I was very impressed wit the realism and detail related to Dark Star!!
@nascar8and20
@nascar8and20 Жыл бұрын
SR72 is the new future of the SR71. It's gonna be a triple of speed with this fuselage
@26th_Primarch
@26th_Primarch Жыл бұрын
If I had a nickels for every time a full-sized mock up of a fake plane for a major US movie caused a foreign power to ask questions I'd have two nickels... Which is weird that it's happened twice... Remember Stealth from the early 2000's caused a similar situation to happen.
@5133937
@5133937 Жыл бұрын
Didn't know it also happened with Stealth, which government got tricked by it?
@26th_Primarch
@26th_Primarch Жыл бұрын
@@5133937 China I believe.
@artistki6435
@artistki6435 Жыл бұрын
One more nickel for you, I believe the one of the old Star Wars movie almost caused A conflict between Libya and Tunisia
@JM-nt5fm
@JM-nt5fm Жыл бұрын
Well at least 4 nickels: Firefox and the fake helicopter model made representing the crashed stealth helicopter from the 160th.
@StrangeTerror
@StrangeTerror Жыл бұрын
Starting to feel like you might actually be able to buy a candy bar.
@michaeloppenheimer2582
@michaeloppenheimer2582 Жыл бұрын
The SR-71 Blackbird was an absolutely gorgeous aircraft and I'm not talking about its appearance talking about its flight characteristics and performance, the Air Force indeed does have a new hypersonic aircraft coming out of the skunk works that is already in the United States Air Force inventory of operational aircraft, and remodels of drones which are very interesting there has been nothing like these aircraft ever before it is a quantum leap over the f-35 and F-22 SR 71 blackbird !!!
@Mark5mith
@Mark5mith Жыл бұрын
The blackbird has gotta be my favourite plane, ever, and considering when it was built it was light years ahead of its time, it's fucking gorgeous.
@Uprightwatches
@Uprightwatches Жыл бұрын
They did such an amazing job on this video. Wow so clean so patriotic I’m very pleased. And I haven’t been able to say that for a very long time
@atamagashock
@atamagashock Жыл бұрын
As a life long fan of top gun, top gun maverick didn’t disappoint! Everything about it was great. Had enough nostalgia, without being overly nostalgic. The storyline was great. Of course the cinematography was fantastic and there were multiple times I got emotional watching it. Maybe cause I’ve loved top gun since watching it as a 7 year old when it came to vhs, but I just really loved it and plan on seeing it a second time at a brand new top of the line theater, cause that’s the way it should be viewed
@GrindBass86
@GrindBass86 Жыл бұрын
Most of these aircraft will wind up looking more or less the same. There is very little that can be gleamed from the exterior design. Twin engine, cross between a delta, diamond, and flying wing (at least in terms of being wide and thin). Arrow shaped for lack of a better term. What makes or breaks it is the engineering and research and development into what goes beneath that.
@B01
@B01 Жыл бұрын
US Gov: China is after the mil tech! Chinese: *Starts pirating movies before they're even filmed* Me: Now that's dedication to a craft
@PD-we8vf
@PD-we8vf Жыл бұрын
US Govt: we must stop Chinese spies. US Govt: allows 500k Chinese students to study engineering at US university.
@ralphace3071
@ralphace3071 Жыл бұрын
Copied 🤣🤣🤣
@InferKnow
@InferKnow Жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough also to see the premiere before hand with my dad who watched the original around the same age I was, it was a fantastic movie and felt short in length in the good sense that you cannot leave your seat if you even needed to get up to go to the restroom for the FOMO. I would truly recommend seeing the first one beforehand also as it continues to the second but is not necessary regardless as it’s a fantastic film.
@jeffalvich9434
@jeffalvich9434 Жыл бұрын
"Dark Star" was a body stabilized aircraft which Lockheed and Hughes Aircraft developed, with Hughes again providing the avionic & surveillance systems. The prototype aircraft was created in the late 19080's and Hughes built a building known as R3 (for their Radar Systems Group) that was located on Hughes Way next to RSG's corporate offices. The facility had underground access and was in essence a "Test Lab" for the aircraft. Upon the purchase of HAC by General Motors...with Roger Smith serving as President/CEO of GMHE) Huges began a spiral of criminal activity which including falsified government document's and failed products that impacted 75+ government classified programs. GM implanted exec's went to prison while Lockheed had both the State, Federal, FAA and DoD coming down on them hard for a variety of executive specific orders which placed peoples lives at risk including the ARFF operations for Burbank Airport (which Lockheed was contracted to provide for)...throw in some "environmental issues" (nice way of saying it), it's no doubt why the POTUS ordered the plug pulled on this SAR/SAP project and the tech transferred to those developing the "sister" project. The building R3 was torn down right to the dirt with weeks of the order.
@celtronis4399
@celtronis4399 Жыл бұрын
least schitzophrenic youtube comment be like:
@corinnem.239
@corinnem.239 Жыл бұрын
Any depiction of an airplane that is supposed to be hypersonic should be interesting to everyone.
@datsuntoyy
@datsuntoyy Жыл бұрын
I'd love to know what skunworks charged to make that aircraft. The original Top Gun was one of the deciding factors in me becoming a Marine Avionics technician (OOH RAH MALS-12 and 14). Always loved aircraft, fixed and rotary wing! Can't wait to see it. I'm going alone, my wife and kid will have to go with me on round 2.
@YaMomsOyster
@YaMomsOyster Жыл бұрын
$6 trillion
@Youre_Right
@Youre_Right Жыл бұрын
I watched Top Gun Maverick yesterday. Awesome movie! I will definitely watch it again.
@alexandriaelony6858
@alexandriaelony6858 Жыл бұрын
September 8th, yeah, just watched it on my Blu-ray DVD. Was delayed, coz when this movie was released on cinemas, in order to avoid crowding into the cinema with dozens of people, and god knows whom has covid. So I'd bought the Blu-ray DVD. It's a one good hell of movie, no doubt, if you loved almost 4 decades ago's Top Gun, you'll love this. It's not about Cruise we're talking here. It's the movie's production, quality, action scenes "dog fight" story line and the great sound tracks. It's kinda touching too, after 4 decades, to see "Goose's" kid "Rooster" has all grown up. Also to see "Ice Man" (Val Kilmer) became admiral and supported Maverick till he past away. Oh wow, that's a great line of story here. Okay, about the jets ... Darkstar SR-72 ... Mach 10 hypersonic, really ? Neh 👎🏻 Hypersonic I believe, but not Mach 10, not realistic yet. But, it was a good one to gave China "a shock" about it ... 😂 Coz China's attitude always are the copy cats. In actual, they don't know the technologies, but they are well known of stealing and copy the technologies from others. Needless to mention about combat aircrafts, then what do you think about all the China brand's cellphones in market ? Obviously they bought from what ever country's productions, and copied their technologies and added in their modifications then sold to the whole world. That's what they are great in doing, copying. But, never ever let China has the opportunity to knows about the latest technologies of these combat jets. They will be a great threads to many other countries in this world. Lastly, whatever SR-71 or 72, I think it's really not the main point here we desires. The greatest is a bombardier jet but it's a drone, don't need a pilot to flies it but just with GPS coordinates and carries loads of "shells" to destroy enemies, that is a real genius combat idea. Overall, it's a great movie to watch.
@loucyphers_nightmare
@loucyphers_nightmare Жыл бұрын
Why do sites always get this wrong, the SR-71 was not the fastest plane, the A-12 was, I'm kind of surprised this site got it wrong
@JM-nt5fm
@JM-nt5fm Жыл бұрын
I think the A-12 was definitely more sporty in initial design but would it not be possible that the SR-71 over the years got pushed far beyond it's initial design limits (i.e. destroying engines) and maybe outperforming the A-12 which never got rung out because it followed a strict test program?
@larrysmith6797
@larrysmith6797 Жыл бұрын
@@JM-nt5fm No, the A12 was faster.
@hf117j
@hf117j Жыл бұрын
You guys realize the A-12 and SR-71 are essentially the same plane right? And as far as I know the A-12 variants never became fully operational. As in never went to be used outside of being a testbed. Making the SR-71 the fastest OPERATIONAL aircraft. You guys have to watch how people say things. Screw you over when you don't.
@loucyphers_nightmare
@loucyphers_nightmare Жыл бұрын
@@hf117j : The A-12 was smaller and a single seat aircraft, it was also operational
@JR-to8sn
@JR-to8sn Жыл бұрын
@@hf117j They were the same design wise, but the A12 was much smaller, lighter and would only hold 68k vs 80k Ibs of fuel. And the A-12 was in fact, Operational, flown by USAF pilots that resigned their commission to join the CIA and fly for them. Once their tour was over, they went back to the USAF. Operational flights in 67-68 were over North Korea and North Vietnam, at least those are unclassified.
@mill2712
@mill2712 Жыл бұрын
Maybe they can build a SP-34R mockup next.
@lonewolfhero3526
@lonewolfhero3526 Жыл бұрын
I dont think anyone's ready to see a plane shoot BACKWARDS
@mill2712
@mill2712 Жыл бұрын
@@lonewolfhero3526 Gleb squadron?
@somethingrandomeveryweek5222
@somethingrandomeveryweek5222 Жыл бұрын
Anyone else remember seeing the roof get blown up in cinema 😂
@markholmphotography
@markholmphotography Жыл бұрын
Well, it wouldn’t be the 1st time. Back in the mid 90s there was a show called “Space Above and Beyond” - about US Marines flying fighter in Space. There was a full scale mock up of their fighter called “SA-43” down in Australia where the 1st episode was shot. Apparently the Russians though it was a new secret Air Force fighter.
@adampoultney8737
@adampoultney8737 Жыл бұрын
It would be ingenious if it was really a real aircraft and the inclusion in the film was to hide its actual existence
@BlvxkByrd
@BlvxkByrd Жыл бұрын
SR-91, not SR-72. Falsely labeled "Aurora" after being listed in budget listings. There is no evidence it exists but that doesn't mean it doesn't. Also with Russia's announcement of a new MiG that can outperform the SR-71, I'm sure we've had a counter for it for quite some time.
@commander31able60
@commander31able60 Жыл бұрын
Russia can’t afford to field optics on their infantry rifles. Any loud projects are just hot air.
@D3RPTV
@D3RPTV Жыл бұрын
@@commander31able60 who are you again?
@commander31able60
@commander31able60 Жыл бұрын
@@D3RPTV a keyboard warrior and flat range operator.
@mylifeisdope916
@mylifeisdope916 Жыл бұрын
very cool guys. i wish you well. i was CCT-VIP, RTM, and RTM Lite. havent done it in awhile and kind of miss it. very fascinating stuff and enjoyable building stuff with your brain and hands.
@WholeOrganicMilk
@WholeOrganicMilk Жыл бұрын
Dude the Dark star scene was so badass
@tommyhallum2054
@tommyhallum2054 Жыл бұрын
It's not about all of speed anymore. The trend in fighter jets has actually been slowing down over the last generation anyway I'm pretty sure of the old Tom cat was just as fast "or faster" than anything coming out now. They have a whole lot of requirements those planes have to meet and all out top speed isn't necessarily one of them anymore.
@reubengermain9771
@reubengermain9771 Жыл бұрын
Save the speed tech for the missiles, if they are hypersonic and you have long range targeting then planes don't need to be hypersonic. Hollywood has romanticised dog fighting ( so 1991). Even so Gulf war dog fights were really just turkey shoots.
@marked4death076
@marked4death076 Жыл бұрын
well crazy speed and stealth and the ability to drop huge payloads id imagine is whats up, basically a blackbird loaded with weapons
@thewarroom1944
@thewarroom1944 Жыл бұрын
That is likely due to the limits of the human body. If your going at Mach 3 and try to go into an inverted dive, your going to pull a lotta Gs and likely pass out. Once we get autonomous fighters (not attack drones) then they will definitely bump up the speed as high as they can.
@darielrodriguez6984
@darielrodriguez6984 Жыл бұрын
They could’ve used the movie as a cover for the real deal. Showing up some “mock-ups” for the movie leads to no higher suspicions. In any case is a win-win. The Chinese will investigate the matter and divert resources either chasing a ghost or letting go the real deal unnoticed
@donny4951
@donny4951 Жыл бұрын
the intro part of the movie was awesome!
@de0509
@de0509 Жыл бұрын
Like 80% of the movie is the characters training for a mission yet I was glued to the seat
@jaredharris1970
@jaredharris1970 Жыл бұрын
What if skunk works put design elements of a top secret existing aircraft in the props design without actually giving away the look of the real thing meaning the CGI model could have the wings of one top secret existing aircraft and the fuselage of another top secret existing aircraft and blended them together to create the fictional CGI model and mock up
@dougrobinson8602
@dougrobinson8602 Жыл бұрын
It's more likely Skunk Works added details from design elements that didn't work, so any adversary trying to reverse engineer a hypersonic design would find themselves at a dead end. One thing that drove me nuts about the preview clip was Maverick's pressure suit helmet being lit from inside. That's the last thing you want to do. Obviously the director wanted Tom Cruise's face visible, but that helmet would blind you.
@nkuntroll247
@nkuntroll247 Жыл бұрын
@@dougrobinson8602 Yeah they do that anytime actors wear helmets. I remember it being talked about way back with first starwars and original battlestar galactica films. Actors said they couldn't see a thing with helmets on and lit up.
@TheWPhilosopher
@TheWPhilosopher Жыл бұрын
And or some real elements but in slightly different places so if they do manage to capture anything they shouldn't they can't be sure if it's now a movie project or the real thing. All round perfect misinformation campaign
@adnan_velic
@adnan_velic Жыл бұрын
The movie was incredible! The aircraft is definitely real. I remember the head of skunk works one time in an interview said he has seen technology that is way way beyond what we have ever seen. Go look it up!
@NICKRITZER
@NICKRITZER Жыл бұрын
"Advanced technology so good we could take ET home." Something like that
@adnan_velic
@adnan_velic Жыл бұрын
@Latest Obsession what he has ever seen before…
@adnan_velic
@adnan_velic Жыл бұрын
@Latest Obsession the head of skunk works said the tech he has seen was so incredible it is far beyond anything that we have today and anything beyond what he has ever seen up to that point. 👍🏻look at what Nick the guy above you said it was something like that.
@ashtar929
@ashtar929 Жыл бұрын
Somewhere in China : Boss: our next project is to build the Darkstar. Workers: instructions not clear, builds UFO instead.
@ChrisBrengel
@ChrisBrengel Жыл бұрын
3:56 How realistic the dark star looks. Designed with skunk work engineers! I thought it was just Hollywood BS, but but it turns out to be very realistic!
@piggypiggypig1746
@piggypiggypig1746 Жыл бұрын
Didn't they also "accidentally" design the missile operation room in the 1983 film WarGames along with all its launch procedures in such convincing detail that there was an investigation into how they knew so much? I think it was either WarGames or the B52 scene in Dr Strangelove.
@Jedibenuk
@Jedibenuk Жыл бұрын
It was Strangelove.
@piggypiggypig1746
@piggypiggypig1746 Жыл бұрын
@@Jedibenuk ah cool
@thewarroom1944
@thewarroom1944 Жыл бұрын
What's crazy is that Skunk Works actually OKAYED this! The most top secret aircraft designers in the world built an aircraft for a movie! They're busy working on the SR-72, B-3, Aurora, Black Manta, and other secret projects and they were just like, "Yeah, we can make a plane for your movie." And then China thinks its a real plane! The reason this film was delayed so many times could likely be attributed to how long it took Skunk Works to build such a realistic prop (Yes, I am aware that the delays were mostly caused by COVID-19).
@mechanomics2649
@mechanomics2649 Жыл бұрын
It isn't crazy at all. What company wouldn't want to put out propaganda?
@eveningstarnm3107
@eveningstarnm3107 Жыл бұрын
No matter what crazy idea it is, someone will put it on KZfaq.
@overlyfatman9722
@overlyfatman9722 Жыл бұрын
I watch the movie last yesterday and that scene was so epic! It was the first time I’ve watch top gun so I’m planning to watch all of them.
@tylerwisniowski5825
@tylerwisniowski5825 Жыл бұрын
I got to see the advance screening as well. If you liked the first one you'll like second one. I just can't turn my brain off in movies that are supposed to be grounded in the real world any more. It was really because I know people who were on the TR during its filming and I have a connection to north island. So it was cool for me.
@brodriguez11000
@brodriguez11000 Жыл бұрын
Hopefully the soundtrack is as good as the original.
@marked4death076
@marked4death076 Жыл бұрын
dude dont be bashful, its the best fuckin movie you seen in decades am i right? it certainly sounds like thats the case and i cant wait
@89DerChristian
@89DerChristian Жыл бұрын
If it is designed by Skunkworks, there might actually be some valuable information gained from this "mockup", so why not retask a satellite that is otherwise taking the same picture of a military base it is taking every day
@shortfuze5261
@shortfuze5261 Жыл бұрын
FINALLY somebody who DOESNT use clickbait
@W0X42A
@W0X42A Жыл бұрын
In the movie, the Lockheed Martin logo is clearly shown on flight controls. Not just "visible" but center frame and deliberately focused on.
@trplankowner3323
@trplankowner3323 Жыл бұрын
Here's a hypothetical situation for you. Suppose you're the USAF head of the development of a new reconnaissance/multirole aircraft. It's referred to as the second coming of a famous aircraft from over half a century ago. However, that's not factual, technology has changed and that sort of aircraft is no longer needed, with the exception of a backup in case satellites are taken out in case of war. This new bird has a different role. It has a top speed of Mach 7, or higher. It's capable of actually entering space. However, if it remains low enough where the air is more dense, its elongated nose will fill the area under the shock wave with plasma rendering the bird essentially invisible to radar from the front aspect. While in conventional combat the US has no peers or even "near peers", there are several nuclear armed potential opponents that the USAF doesn't want getting too nosey over this new bird. One of the best ways to keep something secret is to hide it in plain sight by letting your adversary see what they expect to see, or better yet, what they want to see. Along comes a Hollywood production company requesting military assistance, how fortunate! You give the movie types an idea for an aircraft that looks "amazingly" like your program's bird. Now, when the bad guys come snooping around, all they see is that Hollywood movie prop and they aren't going to let the "evil American imperialist" fool them with that stunt. After all, they had their people on the inside of making that movie and they know what's going on because they're so much better at intelligence than the imperialists are.
@BrianRhodes9763
@BrianRhodes9763 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting hypothetical situation I must say!!!
@trplankowner3323
@trplankowner3323 Жыл бұрын
@@BrianRhodes9763 Purely hypothetical! I can neither confirm nor deny any resemblance of that theory to reality.
@ItsJoKeZ
@ItsJoKeZ Жыл бұрын
honestly- I think you might be on this.
@BrianRhodes9763
@BrianRhodes9763 Жыл бұрын
@@trplankowner3323 Thank you for your service Shipmate. What boat were you on?
@trplankowner3323
@trplankowner3323 Жыл бұрын
@@BrianRhodes9763 It's in the screen name buddy!
@j.dunlop8295
@j.dunlop8295 Жыл бұрын
It definitely reminds one of North Korean leader, telling his rocket scientist, he wanted the missiles, "more pointy!" Elon joked with his Engineers about it!
@Tyraeous
@Tyraeous Жыл бұрын
I recall a story about the TV show Space: Above and Beyond and full scale filming mockups of their fictional Hammerhead aerospace fighters. They had been built offsite and had to be shipped by boat. When they arrived, the dockyards got visits from the Feds, who were concerned about advanced fighter aircraft suddenly showing up.
@fecardona
@fecardona Жыл бұрын
You’ll notice the Skunk Works emblem on the darkstar sequence in the movie, on the aircraft’s tail.
@Assassin2117
@Assassin2117 Жыл бұрын
After all, why not hide things in plain sight?
@4rct1c9Ic3m4n
@4rct1c9Ic3m4n Жыл бұрын
The Chinese will attempt to build their own Darkstar based on what they've seen in the Top Gun: Maverick and it will just end up in a movie of their own as it'll be where it'll be most effective at, in....a movie
@Yuki_Ika7
@Yuki_Ika7 Жыл бұрын
or a theme park
@kerbodynamicx472
@kerbodynamicx472 Жыл бұрын
Not quite, they’ll take some inspiration and improve on the idea. China designs decent airframes, but their engines are not up to the standards. Remember, the Chinese engineers made their first nuclear submarine from a scaled model submarine (with interiors)…
@rovingenglishman
@rovingenglishman Жыл бұрын
The only question I had was how he looked out of the cockpit after he buzzed his CO 😄
@ryanreviews8566
@ryanreviews8566 Жыл бұрын
my left ear really liked that interview
@josephledux8598
@josephledux8598 Жыл бұрын
As a general rule I avoid all those silly, juvenile movies made by schlockmeister Jerry Bruckheimer, the man responsible for some of the most absolute bone-stupid ridiculous movies in history. But the more I see of this movie, the more interested I get in watching it. So yeah. It might be the first Bruckheimer-produced film I'll watch in 20+ years. On the plus side I loved Oblivion which was also directed by Kosinski so yeah, I'm probably going to watch Top Gun: Maverick.
@aurorajones8481
@aurorajones8481 Жыл бұрын
It looked so real... Thats because it probably was so real. Id bet that was a concept that either never got made, or was made and the sucked all they could from it giving us glimpses. And not the actual concept guys. They would have dusted a concept design off and built the shell leaving out or adding to it so its not an exact copy.
@aurorajones8481
@aurorajones8481 Жыл бұрын
"they" love poking us with these dark projects. The mission patches... the names. C'mon.
@Reconseal4050
@Reconseal4050 Жыл бұрын
China was like we are boycotting the movie but they watched it anyway so they could see what Darkstar is capable off. 😂
@KRW628
@KRW628 Жыл бұрын
Remember that before there was the SR-71, there was the A-12. It was called A (Article) 12, because there were 11 versions before the final design. Bet you a dollar, that what the Skunk Works guys served up for the movie was the initial version of what they wound up building.
@Dontworryaboutit69696
@Dontworryaboutit69696 Жыл бұрын
wrong
@KRW628
@KRW628 Жыл бұрын
How?
@Dontworryaboutit69696
@Dontworryaboutit69696 Жыл бұрын
@@KRW628 nevermind i thought you were meaning that the plane from top gun maverick was one of the earlier 11 designs before the a12 and not saying that it’s a design prototype of the sr72
@sthomas6369
@sthomas6369 Жыл бұрын
You do realize that Darkstar was being discussed in the 1990's in aviation circles and there were supposed to be "sightings" of it particularly in the desert southwest? Go look at the Aviation Week archives. You don't think the Chinese and everyone else read Aviation Week? It was often the case that those of us working in the aerospace industry back then would read Aviation Week articles and learn information we didn't know about the projects we were working on! All I see here is movie hype.
@marked4death076
@marked4death076 Жыл бұрын
its the Aurora, clearly we are comfortable with making it known now after its circled the globe for 30 years....whats wild is what is circling now haha
@RickySpanish12344
@RickySpanish12344 Жыл бұрын
What if this is actually something real, and they used this opportunity to make it appear fake?
@jtc1947
@jtc1947 Жыл бұрын
Misinformation or disinformation???
@RickySpanish12344
@RickySpanish12344 Жыл бұрын
@@jtc1947 Misdirection I think.
@rosseaualleys5805
@rosseaualleys5805 Жыл бұрын
if their prop turns out to be real, that would be perfect, cant wait to see it :v
@RickySpanish12344
@RickySpanish12344 Жыл бұрын
@@rosseaualleys5805 Well I didn't mean the prop itself was real. Only that the prop was made, and appeared in a movie and so if a real model is out there, it would simply be said to be a prop from a movie, or upcoming movie.
@jtc1947
@jtc1947 Жыл бұрын
@@RickySpanish12344 Might be a variation of SUN ZEE ? Confuse the enemy then compound the confusion? Don't quote me on that cause NOT really SURE if that is SUN ZEE or not???
@GrumpyFelo
@GrumpyFelo Жыл бұрын
it was a nice touch that the dark star had the "skunkworks" emblem on the back wing
@thezone3946
@thezone3946 Жыл бұрын
Darkstar was the call sign heard in the early 90s by an amateur radio guy of incoming suspected aurora landing at Edward's...it was going 6k mph according to estimates
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