And invention of a new computer that was much faster than anything else at the time.

The SR-71 wasn't all that stealthy. Its main defense was that it moved too high for flak and too fast for SAMs. It was retired when interception capabilities improved to match it.

That was on purpose, They knew it wouldn't matter, it was never shot down. It's like they built the Titanic in the 80's and decided to name it "200% more unsinkable". Pure hubris

Hm, I like the story of the U-2 better, in which Kelly Johnson, the plane's designer, tells the CIA the Soviets won't be able to shoot it down BUT that they are massively ramping up their capabilities and will have caught up by 1960. The plane was eventually shot down on May 1, 1960 to the great embarrassment of president Eisenhower.

Happy May Day, Mr. Krushchev!

Kinda hard to read something moving at mach 2+ though right?

Source? I did a quick websearch and didn't see anything on that

More like the F-117 Nighthawk getting shot down whilst bombing Yoguslavia because the flight path became too predictable

The timing of that weather report was also crucial, as the code changed daily. Getting that report in the morning allowed them to crack the code, and then use that to decode messages for the rest of the day.

Yeah, isn't the thing about the sign-off a dramatization? They sure did repeat certain words like OKW and BdU, as well as sending uniform weather reports and changing their settings too infrequently. But that bit sounds fabricated.

If we send it back though the encryption mechanism, it's like double encrypted, duuude.

It's slightly "way more complicated". They occasionally forgot to update the key settings between messages, resent identical messages with different keys or encryption systems, or just chose easy to guess keys.

There was also a defect in enigma where no letters could be encoded as themselves. This meant that you could use knowledge of what was likely in a message at a certain location to rule out keys, since any letters in common disqualified the guess.

I believe that was Lorenz, not enigma. The higher level code. Basically Hitler and his generals only.

An operator missed a letter in a message. He then reset the machine and re-encrypted it. 2 almost identical messages like that were enough to figure out how the encryption operated. They didn't see a physical Lorenz machine till after the war.

With a slight error somewhere in the middle of the second one. Or so I remember.