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![]() According to Kelly Johnson's A-12 Log, on 14 Sept 1960 they started work on a bomber version. This saw light as SP-229, "RB-12 Proposal" on 15 Dec 1960. I believe that Byrnes & Hurley's "Blackbird Rising" mentions this, but I'm away from home and my copy, so I can't check. In 1965, they revisited the concept as the B-71, but like the earlier ones, it was never built. I've seen drawings of three variants with bombs in the chines (like the YF-12's missles), a rotary bomb dispenser in the fuselage (inside the covers of Crickmore's books?), and a single large bomb in the fuselage. But as an earlier writer has posted, the B-12 was never built in any form. |
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