Lockheed Martin SR-72 have the same range, with entry into service by 2030. The SR-72 follows the US Air Force's hypersonic road map for developing a hypersonic strike weapon by 2020, and a penetrating ISR aircraft by 2030. At the time of the concept's unveiling, Lockheed Martin had engaged in talks with government officials, but has not secured funding for the demonstrator or engine. On 13 November 2013, Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh revealed that the service was interested in the SR-72's hypersonic capabilities, but had not spoken with Lockheed Martin about the aircraft. Its high speed appeals to the
Lockheed Martin shooting Lockheed Martin shooting The Lockheed Martin shooting was an act of workplace violence that occurred on July 8, 2003, at the Lockheed Martin plant in Meridian, Mississippi. The gunman, Douglas Williams, was a 48-year-old divorced father of two. He was an assembly line worker at the plant. He shot 14 of his co-workers with a shotgun, killing six of them, before committing suicide. The incident was the deadliest workplace shooting in the United States since December 2000, when Michael McDermott killed seven co-workers at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts. On the day of the shooting, Williams attended a mandatory ethics