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85% of the SR-71 Blackbird’s airframe was built from Russian titanium that the CIA secretly bought through shell companies
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was the United States’ most advanced Cold War spy plane. It was designed to fly over Soviet airspace at Mach 3+ above 80,000 feet. At those speeds, skin temperatures could ...
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The CIA built 13 A-12 Oxcarts to spy on Russia — then lost 5 of them in accidents before the program was killed in 1968
In April 1962, Lockheed Skunk Works flew an A-12 Oxcart spy plane that required an entirely new American titanium industry ...
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