Tr 3b black manta plus#
Holloman for one always has a large Luftwaffe training unit then on F-4F PHantoms now Tornados plus the army's flight detachment back then of C-12, Bell OH-58C and Bell UH-1H supporting the White Sands Missile Range next door, plus a tactical fighter training unit with T-38. 1) The scanned two page article later on in this thread mentions the basing of the TR-3B alongside the F-117A at Holloman, under the new 49th FW post Desert Storm it be nigh on impossible to fly the TR-3B due to the other busy residents on the installation.
More questions than answers, I read the similar bits in Air International 1994 September issue - the Farnborough special where they talk about the F-117A/TR-3 combo during Desert Storm. I can't remember exactly where but on one of the quartz/AARS threads there was a link to a fantastic in depth report by a former blue suit turned academic that briefly hinted at a high speed high speed NRO component of the program. As mentioned before this forum has collected some of the BEST information on quartz. Much more of a strategic recon platform than a companion to a tactical strike aircraft. It has an electromagnetic coil at the heart of it’s motive power system. In the case of the TR-3B Black Manta, it means a craft that uses highly pressured mercury accelerated by nuclear energy, so that plasma is produced, which, in turn, creates a field of anti-gravity around the craft. Given that, I always wondered if the supposed secret companion triangular aircraft was just a slightly different f-117.Īs for quartz and AARS, I thought that was aimed at very long range, very long endurance recon to track Road mobile ICBMs and other things that might move in between satellite fly overs. TR3b Black Manta Secret Anti-Gravity Spy Plane Concept. Wasn't the other theory that TR was Teledyne Ryan, indicating that it was an in house design designation?Īs for the recce component of CSIRS the f-117 was there some talk of a recon version of the f-117 itself (f-117r)? I can see how a common platform for stealthy deep strike and then stealthy damage assessment could make sense.
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