Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
30 May 2023 Acquired Lockheed Martin
“I think Kelly and the Skunk Works team were really advocating to build a tactical aircraft that was based on this, or bomber, and that never happened.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 30 May 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Lockheed Martin
Transcript context
…You couldn't shoot bullets out of it because it's faster than the bullets. Right. I think Kelly and the Skunk Works team were really advocating to build a tactical aircraft that was based on this, or bomber, and that never happened. Every version of the SR-71, their early prototypes of the Archangel or the CIA spy plane, there are only ever badass airplanes that carry cameras. And go really fast.…
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