Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Cool, but still Do Not Want


Every once in a while something crosses my desk that makes me do a double-take.  Such is the old Soviet TU-123 Hawk reconnaissance drone.  Take the cheaper, disposable version of a MiG-25 Foxbat engine and shove it into a pointy supersonic airframe with a bunch of cameras in the nose, and you end up with something right off of Wile E. Coyote's design table:


Yeeesh.  Glad these never got used for real.  Article at Wikipedia.  Not sure how to tag this one, so file it under "scifi."

ps: I knew that thing looked familiar.  Definitely scifi.

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