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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