Arsenal | The First Stealth Aircraft

On July 26, 1968, the North Vietnamese fired two SA-2 surface-to-air missiles at SR-71A No. 976. Neither crewman saw the SAMs detonate about 2 miles behind the supersonic “Blackbird,” whose crews called it “Habu,” after the deadly pit viper in Okinawa, Japan. No missile in the world came as close as the North Vietnamese SAM …

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