Cool video but, were su27s around when the SR-71 was in service? And I thought sr71s were decommissioned and relegated to "on display" only. Sr71 would have gotten ghost long before any threat got close enough to even smell it's vapor trail.

Much less being designed without the benefits of computer design.

My grandmother's 91 and she rocks!

​@@erikalexander414 not all of them

As mentioned above the sr-71 has not been in use for decades. I saw one in the Evergreen aviation museum in Oregon. It made it from Ca to the east coast in 14minutes!!!!! So not way some regular fighter jet can keep up.

Apparently the "Director of the Department of Information and Press at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs" does, so there's that

@@RandomPerson8492 And the director of computer generated bullschitt...

And where exactly is the camera recording this??? This AI stuff is getting too scary and close to the real thing...

@@tomcampbell6384 All that's new here is graphics processing - mainstream media has been propagating lies and misinformation for decades.....to the point the average person isn't even aware of it.

I never know what to believe anymore when watching these videos

Correct. The SR-71 is unarmed. It would never fly visual sub-sonic with hostiles.

Not sure what to make of it, but that's pretty much what a 71 can do. As for who is really flying those 27's? I don't think they were real hostiles. It's a show-off video, probably meant as propaganda directed at Russian intelligence. Nothing like telling the truth about our equipment vs their fighters. "Catch me if you can!"

Of course this is a hoax. Who's the camera man filming this?

@@chaosopher23 the counter to the SR-71 is the Mig-25 Foxbat. Can it do the job? Who knows? The US never let the SR-71 anywhere near a Mig-25.

@@TheWallReports DCS camera or is it mfs2020 filming this.

Su-27 was first flown in 1984. The SR-71 Blackbird's last flight was 1999.

@@iceman_fox1 they were built to combat the SR-71. Yet nobody knew how fast or how high the SR-71 could fly. The Russians lost before they started.

You lost ~10000 airframes in vietnam, let's not talk about plane and helicopter losses

@@Stein871 because SR-71 flew combat mission over Vietnam? I might be wrong but they were Recon/Photo takers? No SR-71 was lost from enemy attempts. Name another plane that can say that?

@@Stein871 may I ask what advanced aircraft has your country produced?

544th SIC/SIW - Strategic Air Command - Offutt AFB 1946 CS/ Tempelhof C/S 7350th CS/ Tempelhof C/S 7455th Tactical Intelligence Wing- Ramstein Air Base, Germany Agree, 100%

Unless it was just before or after refueling. But realistically, those operations would take place over friendly territory.

@@GrantOakes - Any plane penetrating Russian airspace has very long legs. The could easily be topped off within site of northern Alaska or Canada.

And who was filming that?!!

​@@donkloos9078 perhaps someone in a B2

Four. You have to count in the guy that is filming. Picture quality is also pretty good for the Cold War period?

Russia has plenty of fighter jets. I live next to an airforce base near Moscow, they fly over our heads all the time and there are loads of them.

Must have been pretty excited to see an SR-71 since they put up their whole inventory.

@@dhyde9207 yeah, like, ah, how many years, ah, ago did this take place

This was made in DCS, Digital Combat Simulator. Look it up. Essentially what it sounds like. The lighting gives it away on the surfaces of jets, let alone the sky. This video was made for entertainment purposes.

A lot of these videos are AI generated. Look almost real.

My thought. I can’t see a Blackbird pilot letting anybody crowd him

@@Hawken54 ai is getting scary good, cant believe your eyes anymore.

It was done with DCS. It's a computer game.

its a game

I believe the SR-71 engine design is on afterburner during their normal cruise speed. If a real video, this whole scene would have been over neutral territory, not over Soviet airspace.

its a game

@@vonhalberstadt3590it’s in a game

Engages ramjet mode. Buh bye!

You are commenting on a video game called DCS as if it is real life...There are no pilots. It is a computer sim.

No "spell check"?

it's a line from the original top gun​@@hyperluminalreality1

its a game called DCS

hahahaa Goose

🤣🤣🤣

the cia paid good drug money to buy it

@@marcosflores-march7278 Yeah, right! You are well informed. The CIA set up dozens of shell companies, in order to buy the necessary ingots of titanium in order to make the skin et al for the SR-71. Well spotted!!

Is Russia where we get our titanium?

@@RonLo For the Blackbird, yes.

That is amazing that sr-71 can fly faster than a rifle round

As do the majority of jet fighters.

Faster than there rockets too !

​@@steve5825 So what? The original poster was using that as a reference. Now add in the fact that the SR-71 was doing this back in 1966, and today SOME jet fighters may fly faster been a bullet but not all, and the ones that do, are still not as fast as the SR-71.

@@steve5825 no. The SR-71 was recorded going 2200 miles an hour. M4 308 round goes 2800/ft per second. That is less than 2000mph, but still really fast. (2800ft/second x 60 seconds x 60 minutes, equals 10080000, divide by 5280 "a mile" and its = 1909.0909096mph) Most fighter jets however, cruise best at around 1000mph and in combat are around 1200-1500mph. The Su-27 has a max speed of 1600mph. Its service ceiling is 62,000 feet. At altitude, it can go 1600. Sea level only about 1000mph. The SR-71 has a max speed of 2200 mph, service ceiling of 85,000 feet and there is no differentiation in speed in the wiki between sea level or the 85,000 ft. SR-71 is exceptional and to say that most are just as good is a joke.

A.I. just playing you 😊

Yeah right it's a simulation the USAF and the CIA are laughing 😂 do you know the mission of the SR - 71 ? Hnt : Advoid detect take photos and go after burners !!!!!!

In this scenario the su27s had the blackbird by the balls. They could have shot it down pointblank and there's nothing the blackbird could have done about it.

Those 27's were piloted by NATO pilots. This video is probably directed at Russian intelligence, hinting at capabilities. "Catch me if you can!"

Did you notice that video is from a game, didnt you? SU-27 doesn´t have to be faster than SR-71. Its air-to-air missiles are.

And they still couldn’t reach..

its a game

There has only been one SR71 ever shot down........oh yeah, it was shot down by the Russians.

Beautiful, beautiful blackbird.

Excelente!!!

While deployed on the Kitty Hawk in 87, an officer walked into Air Ops and informed us that an aircraft will be passing through the carrier's controlled airspace. (There is no top limit to an aircraft carrier's controlled airspace.) So, we air traffic controllers gathered around a radar scope and watched the aircraft primary target (no IFF, aka transponder code, no altitude encoder) and watched a primary target take seven sweeps to race from one side of the radar scope to the other side. We estimated the speed at around 2300 knots. Our F-14s were only capable of 1450 knots, about 300 knots faster than the F/A-18s.

I was at that final fly-in as well, right on the flight line inside the base. After the landing it became the top attraction at the Air Force Museum. This video is making the rounds and people have no idea that its long before their time.

Several years ago, I saw it in an air show in Toronto. Less than an hour after it left, they announced was in California!

SR-71 and Concord were both a cut above the rest. Aeronautical beauty.

@@johnbarker6703 yeah. Concorde was fantastic, but the cost and complaints about noise seems to have been it's downfall. Living under one of the approach paths to DFW has pretty well well made me indifferent to planes making noise.

Good on you, my friend! Keep that love for the 71! The 71 is so very cool, but my fav aircraft is the F-15 EX Eagle II. Another old airframe that is still kicking butt, 50+ years later! And no signs of slowing down. Keep flying the colors for the SR-71! Later! ~Matt

Ok .. more like mach 5.5 and higher. Hmmm mach 5 patches on most crew that flew them. Official top speed 3.2 real top speed classified till this day most crew will say easy mach 4

Until you look at the SR-72

I wouldn’t mind putting my two cents in on the F-104 Starfighter or the X-15 But yes, the Blackbird is a sweet one….👍🏻🇺🇸😁

its a game called DCS

Once there was a real chance they could 1:12 have because one Blackberry Bird was having severe mechanical difficulties. But I think the technically neutral Swedes ran interference for us blocking the Russians.

@smit, а ты все самолёты России знаешь? 😁

Not really...mig 25 interceptor can catch up to a Blackbird. American military just didn't want to admit it

Way to advanced for the 1960s definetly borrowed from our outer space friends

It is advanced aircraft and the technology is advanced

Another story I've heard: Blackbird pilot: "Request flight level 600." Rookie Air Traffic Controller: Buddy, if you think you can get up there, go for it. Nobody's up there " Blackbird pilot: "Descending flight level 600."

And it was designed with a slide rule in the late 1950's.

It's footage from a game

In real life a missile would kill the SR-71 up close like that. But not at 85,000 feet at Mach 3.

You mean too much for those boiler plate and big rivet Russian fighters,they'd get no where near a Blackbird.

If the Russians use MiG 25 I don't know what will happen to the SR 71 it can reach up to mach 3 and can climb up to 80k feet

Not thrue !! The record for the highest altitude, in a horizontally controlled flight by a military fighter, was 37km. A MiG-29 did this ‼️ 

the game is DCS (digital combat simulator)

TRUE LOL

😂 lol , really? When did a S 71 let Russian jet fighters get close to it ? This is a simulation 😂

you spelled Ukraine wrong lol.. oh wait - are they getting 4 f-16s to be used as russian target practice...? hahahahhahaha.

Did you know, that 71% of USA´s F-35 are not combat capable just because they are almost permanently broken? (And that is in peace time, in war time I bet they would be broken all ). Did you know that Abrams tanks need 8 hours of maintenance for every one hour of combat use ? (Ukrainiens found out soon, that it is junk) Last year we could see the "quality" of USA´s weapons in counterofensive in Ukraine. The only things which are remarkable about those guns are the PRICE and the SPEED in which these are being wiped out... Russian weapons are superior at all levels. The mere fact that the Russians have managed to bring several hypersonic missiles into use (!) within a few years and the Americans, in contrast, have not been able to do so for 10 years, shows the enormous difference. USA only has the most expensive military in the world, while Russia has the strongest army in the world and the most experienced army in the world.. About Ukraine war I say it like this: Who wants to be helping to a country(Ukraine) which kept killing civilians(russian language speakers) since 2014 ? It would be the same if someone would start helping to a man who attacked another man...., because Russia is helping to civilians in Donbas since those civilians were killed by thousands since 2014) It is like someone would start helping to a person who started with killing people....... About Ukraine war I say it like this: Would USA like Russia´s army in Mexico or Cuba? If your answer was NO while you do not mind NATO(it means USA´s army) near Russia, than something is very wrong with your reasoning, period.

tbf I'm not in the Russian side but saying this is utterly wrong. Less than 10% of the russian Air Force has been damaged by this conflict and they're still receiving new batches of su35s every 2 months

its a game called DCS

Don't make it come out of retirement..💪🙊

No it isn't. Something much, much faster is flying now.

@@dhyde9207 And its replacement is probably already flying now too

You’d think by now we’d have planes that could fly into space. Do we?

Lockheed Martin is developing the SR-72. A hypersonic UAV slated for first flight in 2025 & full operational service by the 2030's 🛩 🌌🔭

Thank you, my friend!

While this video is complete bullshit, the official top speed of the SR-71 was 2,193 mph, and the fastest it ever unofficially flew was around 2,500 mph for a few seconds.

What video game do you recall this incident from?🤡🤣🤡

You recall this do you - whatever you are smoking you'd better stop now.

Did you know, that 71% of USA´s F-35 are not combat capable just because they are almost permanently broken? (And that is in peace time, in war time I bet they would be broken all ). Did you know that Abrams tanks need 8 hours of maintenance for every one hour of combat use ? (Ukrainiens found out soon, that it is junk) Last year we could see the "quality" of USA´s weapons in counterofensive in Ukraine. The only things which are remarkable about those guns are the PRICE and the SPEED in which these are being wiped out... Russian weapons are superior at all levels. The mere fact that the Russians have managed to bring several hypersonic missiles into use (!) within a few years and the Americans, in contrast, have not been able to do so for 10 years, shows the enormous difference. USA only has the most expensive military in the world, while Russia has the strongest army in the world and the most experienced army in the world.. About Ukraine war I say it like this: Who wants to be helping to a country(Ukraine) which kept killing civilians(russian language speakers) since 2014 ? It would be the same if someone would start helping to a man who attacked another man...., because Russia is helping to civilians in Donbas since those civilians were killed by thousands since 2014) It is like someone would start helping to a person who started with killing people....... About Ukraine war I say it like this: Would USA like Russia´s army in Mexico or Cuba? If your answer was NO while you do not mind NATO(it means USA´s army) near Russia, than something is very wrong with your reasoning, period.

@@mirekslechta7161 Big talk from someone whose mainline MBT broke down during a parade

@@mirekslechta7161 did you see the mighty T-90 get smoked by the Bradley's without TOW's? Did you see the russian navy getting smoked by a country without a navy? Have you seen russian air force getting smoked by Patriot? Did you enjoy your one tank parade?

Yeah, except MiG-31's were intercepting the Blackbird, but sure, not gonna happen lol.

@@SwapBlogRU That happened exactly twice and near the end of the SR-71's service. No Blackbird was ever shot down. By the time of those intercepts the U.S. satellites were starting to do most of the recon anyway. The first incident was a mig getting a radar lock but from a distance of 120km at about 52,000 ft.. It is questionable if the newest russian missile the R-33 I think could have shot it down.

They never did.

Did you know, that 71% of USA´s F-35 are not combat capable just because they are almost permanently broken? (And thet is in peace time, in war time I bet they would be broken all ). Did you know that Abrams tanks need 8 hours of maintenance for every on hour of combat use ? (Ukrainiens found out soon, that it is junk) Last year we could see the "quality" of USA´s weapons in counterofensive in Ukraine. The only things which are remarkable about those guns are the PRICE and the SPEED in which these are being wiped out... Russian weapons are superior at all levels. The mere fact that the Russians have managed to bring several hypersonic missiles into use (!) within a few years and the Americans, in contrast, have not been able to do so for 10 years, shows the enormous difference. USA only has the most expensive military in the world, while Russia has the strongest army in the world and the most experienced army in the world.. About Ukraine war I say it like this: Who wants to be helping to a country(Ukraine) which kept killing civilians(russian language speakers) since 2014 ? It would be the same if someone would start helping to a man who attacked another man...., because Russia is helping to civilians in Donbas since those civilians were killed by thousands since 2014) It is like someone would start helping to a person who started with killing people....... About Ukraine war I say it like this: Would USA like Russia´s army in Mexico or Cuba? If your answer was NO while you do not mind NATO(it means USA´s army) near Russia, than something is very wrong with your reasoning, period.

@@mirekslechta7161 Did you know, that 100% of Russian tank turrets fly better than any Russian aircraft? The only things which are remarkable about those guns are the RUST and the SPEED at which they gain altitude. Vast numbers of people across the world supported Putin because he appeared to be a man of reason in a world gone mad. He flushed that supoort down the toilet with his "special military operation". Now go away with your propaganda - Nobody here has any power to change anything.

@@mirekslechta7161 did you see the mighty T-90 get smoked by the Bradley's without TOW's? Did you see the russian navy getting smoked by a country without a navy? Have you seen russian air force getting smoked by Patriot? Did you enjoy your one tank parade?