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The Tacit Blue: The Whale
In the mid-1970s, during the height of the Cold War, the United States faced significant threats from advanced Soviet anti-aircraft artillery and radar-guided missiles. In response, DARPA initiated Project Harvey to develop stealth technologies that would render aircraft virtually undetectable to enemy defenses. Enter Northrop's Tacit Blue, one of the most unique stealth aircraft ever created.Unlike the sleek, menacing designs typically associated with stealth aircraft, the Tacit Blue featured a humorous, boxy appearance. Designed to hover over enemy locations and provide real-time updates while remaining undetected by radar, it became known as "The Whale" or "The Alien School Bus" due to its peculiar look.Northrop's engineers focused on creating an efficient stealth reconnaissance aircraft, capable of operating at low speeds and staying invisible to enemy radar. The Tacit Blue was built around a powerful side-looking array radar, designed to monitor Soviet armored movements. Its distinctive airframe, innovative flight control system, and stealth capabilities made it a remarkable technological achievement.Despite its promising features, the Tacit Blue was ultimately not deployed for active military use. However, it served as a vital stepping stone for subsequent stealth aircraft designs, including the B-2 stealth bomber. The Tacit Blue’s contributions to stealth technology are undeniable, influencing the future of military reconnaissance and stealth capabilities.Learn more about this fascinating aircraft and its impact on stealth technology in this video.
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Komentáře

  • @Rhalejandt
    @Rhalejandt Před 6 hodinami

    Gracias por el vídeo, me gustaría saber cuál fue el primer C182 y los modelos que le siguieron. Gracias

  • @th232r6
    @th232r6 Před 8 hodinami

    Area 51 is at Edward’s AFB…. Really? I can only assume that all information in this video is as accurate as that simply ignorant statement… fail.

  • @marialicepontello4280
    @marialicepontello4280 Před 9 hodinami

    O it is this plane again almost forgot about it

  • @RB01138
    @RB01138 Před 11 hodinami

    "uses the same vtol style as the harrier" yup, it's done.

  • @PapaDutch
    @PapaDutch Před 21 hodinou

    " a Stealth E2-C Aircraft" ~ you could have just said that at the beginning...

  • @cw9533
    @cw9533 Před 23 hodinami

    Everyone's dream is to walk out to your aircraft and take off then decide where to go while airborne. Just you and your girl/guy/family on flight, then you find out it cost $3.5 million US plus tax, plus storage, plus periodic maintenance and flight to your destination will cost $1800 in gas one way. Then we all ask how much is that spirit ticket?

  • @wickedcabinboy
    @wickedcabinboy Před dnem

    0:22 Kipper and Kippur are two different words, not pronounced alike at all. They have different and unrelated meanings. A kipper is a fish. Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement. Just thought you'd like to know. On reading other comments it seems this isn't the only error in your video. I'm outta here.

  • @talkerbillhilton1137

    Nimrod is a good looking plane.

  • @dcolb121
    @dcolb121 Před dnem

    Those videos of "sonic booms" aren't sonic booms. The one blowing limbs off of trees is just the air coming from the jet's passage. At that altitude, you would hardly see the plane pass if it was at supersonic speeds.

  • @tanerturkmen1586
    @tanerturkmen1586 Před dnem

    Tupolev was older and faster than Concorde...

  • @Metoobie
    @Metoobie Před dnem

    I can't believe you would use the image of an exploding aircraft to mainly discuss differences between the E2 and A220. Absolutely shameful and inflammatory. Pure clickbait that terrorizes people. If you have any relationship to aviation, I certainly hope your employer discontinues that relationship.

  • @MrEnyecz
    @MrEnyecz Před dnem

    How could have been the x32 stealthy with that huge Monica mouth? What was the plan?

  • @drjamespotter
    @drjamespotter Před dnem

    I didn't know that the Soviets has Rapier missiles.

  • @vandarkholme4745
    @vandarkholme4745 Před dnem

    No disrespect, but did Burt Rutan design any commercially successful plane?

  • @AndreiWeise
    @AndreiWeise Před dnem

    Please, change this IA voice to make more natural..

  • @ahuels67
    @ahuels67 Před dnem

    And now it can be down with a $1000 drone....

    • @flexairz
      @flexairz Před dnem

      Can that drone carry 2 2000lbs smart bombs?

    • @ahuels67
      @ahuels67 Před dnem

      @@flexairz was talking about the SPY part of it's job

  • @raphael7552
    @raphael7552 Před dnem

    Ugly as the french carrier aircraft "Alizé" (anti submarine).

  • @user-dl3se9iy4r
    @user-dl3se9iy4r Před dnem

    Yes I agree the Russian missions. Also if I remember correctly 3 Sqd based at RAF Geilenkirchen in Germany had a Nuclear role with two aircraft held in Quick Reaction Alert. However I was only 8 then but the USAF were on the Station I think for that purpose.

    • @user-dl3se9iy4r
      @user-dl3se9iy4r Před dnem

      I have just checked Jack T C Long's book Three's Company who confirms this and the weapons were Uncle Sam's. Page 177.

  • @magamike1800
    @magamike1800 Před dnem

    Sorry Monica.

  • @reubenmorris487
    @reubenmorris487 Před dnem

    The 777X isn't failing...it's Boeing's Board and management that's having the most trouble. Some of the suppliers aren't helping either.

  • @victorhs258
    @victorhs258 Před dnem

    NASA still flies the WB-57 N928NA, registration expires on June 30, 2024.

  • @paologiordano.photos

    I live in the same city as where the p180 used to be built, before the plant was transferred on a smaller airport 90km west. Sometimes they still test the planes in the skies here (at 14:11 you can see our city airport), every time I hear the roar I feel like I have to seek for that plane in the sky. Pretty amazing plane, I once saw one made a full tight loop at an airshow

  • @robert-oq9jq
    @robert-oq9jq Před dnem

    All birds are beautiful you just don't know what you're looking at

  • @tokyosmash
    @tokyosmash Před 2 dny

    Politics killed the X-32… and the F-35 clearly has been a real winner 🙄

  • @localbod
    @localbod Před 2 dny

    It's almost as if aircraft designers of propeller-driven aeroplanes forgot all they had learned during the second world war. Very odd.

  • @lqr824
    @lqr824 Před 2 dny

    I think the look would have grown on us if we had seen it as often as we've seen the F--35.

  • @rickantonio
    @rickantonio Před 2 dny

    I was all in for the $180k price they initially quoted me w/trailer Of course that went South

  • @iainmacdonald1170
    @iainmacdonald1170 Před 2 dny

    I believe that my Dad, Flt Lt Dinger Dell, was the only person to get 2000 hours on the type. Despite one ejection and one crash landing, he still loved the aircraft - though after converting to the F4 I don't think he'd have liked to go back!

  • @tstodgell
    @tstodgell Před 2 dny

    The thumbnail is misspelled. "Tacit," not "tacid."

    • @Dwaynesaviation
      @Dwaynesaviation Před 2 dny

      Thanks soooo much, will fix that now, totally missed that

  • @cturdo
    @cturdo Před 2 dny

    Good idea poorly executed.

  • @user-en9zo2ol4z
    @user-en9zo2ol4z Před 2 dny

    I have always considered the Canberra to be the first in a winning line of aircraft from English Electric. Remarkable in its day, to such an extent that even the USAF were forced to purchase them, as they lacked any aircraft with its unique abilities. Reading chief test pilot Beaumont's book about his very first flight across the Atlantic, the tower at Washington needed identification when he arrived seeking landing instructions The tower had not noticed him at his height or direction. While in use by the RAF, it ran any number of spy missions over Soviet territory, while the Soviets remained oblivious. Further, I have viewed this beautiful aircraft many times, and always marvel at its relatively small size, being smaller than many modern fighter jets. Despite which, it could carry a serviceable bomb load, and reconnaissance cameras. The Canberra had a very distinguished career, even being used during the Vietnam War, where it served admirably.

  • @HenryFerlauto
    @HenryFerlauto Před 2 dny

    You have a typo at 2:40. The graph shows, “TARINED PILOTS,” instead of, “TRAINED PILOTS.”

  • @Vtarngpb
    @Vtarngpb Před 2 dny

    So, a Blue Whale? Alan Davies: *Heavy Breathing*

  • @parrotraiser6541
    @parrotraiser6541 Před 2 dny

    As another commenter has pointed out, the moment you turn on a rada, you are advertising your presence. It's the Bullfrog's Dilemma; "Lady frogs, there's a stud here" in Frog is "Dinner waiting here" in Heron.

  • @shveylien7401
    @shveylien7401 Před 2 dny

    I always pondered about stealth coatings. I want to experiment with Pyrolytic Graphite suspended in solution and painted into place to cure aligned via tripod mounted external magnetism. Hopefully creating a hard wearing thin and lightweight radar absorption material in either horizontal or vertical alignment to the hull, or alternating in layers, as applied. Being a directional Diamagnetic for manipulation of application, and Electrically/thermally conductive to do the task required.

  • @billryland6199
    @billryland6199 Před 2 dny

    Area 51 is in Nevada, NOT at Edwards AFB, California. Active radar sends out a signal that tells everyone exactly where you are.

  • @gammr3227
    @gammr3227 Před 2 dny

    project harvey wasnt originally named that, they came up with that name after the whole thing ended

  • @charliemcgrain
    @charliemcgrain Před 2 dny

    Robot voice video

  • @waspsnest
    @waspsnest Před 2 dny

    "a tail that could move in any direction " what does that mean, could it rotate and tilt sideways too? im suspecting we have another clueless youtuber here

  • @alibizzle2010
    @alibizzle2010 Před 2 dny

    I'm pretty sure DARPA wasn't involved in designing the A-12 or SR71

  • @markiliff
    @markiliff Před 2 dny

    The plural of aircraft is aircraft

  • @tonysu8860
    @tonysu8860 Před 2 dny

    Area 51 is not part of Edwards Air Force Base. Edwards is located in the California desert just north of Los Angeles, California and noted for the advanced development of aircraft but due to its location can be surveilled by practically any passersby. Area 51 is located at least a couple hundred miles east of Edwards adjoining Las Vegas, Nevada and is not accessible or viewable by the general public.

  • @Istandby666
    @Istandby666 Před 2 dny

    I can't watch anymore. My biological father worked on these programs and there's just a lot of mistaken information here.

  • @Istandby666
    @Istandby666 Před 2 dny

    @1:44 1977 of the have blue project, False. 1972 was the Have Blue project also known as the hopeless diamond. In 1977, the have blue project became the F-117 project.

  • @tigertiger1699
    @tigertiger1699 Před 2 dny

    🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @guardian-921
    @guardian-921 Před 2 dny

    What's crazy about this thing in person, is it looks totally fake. It looks like a prop from a highschool theatre production. Crazy to know it actually flew and did testing.

  • @johnwatson3948
    @johnwatson3948 Před 2 dny

    A book on Tacit Blue tells the story of an engineer on the secret program who was going to a company party with his wife and saw she had a “white whale” pendant on her necklace - said he could not tell her why, but she had to get rid of it.

  • @christopherneufelt8971

    Thanks for the Video. I always wanted to see this one, and the algorithm brought be me here.

  • @SopwithTheCamel
    @SopwithTheCamel Před 2 dny

    All paid for by the USA Marshall plan.

  • @philliplopez8745
    @philliplopez8745 Před 2 dny

    The Shuttle craft Galileo.