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I'm skeptical of such a capability. Even granting the engines the power and durability to do that, what about the rest of the airframe and avionics? How do they prevent those from being baked if not outright melted? The SR-71 required a substantial engineering effort to withstand the shock heating at that speed but the SR-71 flew very high in thinned air.



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