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It was decommissioned because it was inefficient.


Not really true.

They were decomissioned because they were made functionally obsolescent by improvements in satellite imagery.

There is nothing in the sky today (that isn't Top Secret) that's faster, though.


Matt: You are so unrealistic in your defense of these old technologies. Sure, the SR71 may do Mach 5, but everyone knows it will automatically pitchpole if subjected to 21st century waves on the East Coast. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Jerome Vaughan
Hobie 16
Clinton, Mississippi

Jerome Vaughan
Hobie 16
Clinton, Mississippi