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Distance and a telephoto lens can fix a lot of that. If you're kilometers away going twice as fast you have a lot more time to snap a pic, versus being 500 meters away.

They used these for surveillance so I assume the motion compensation on these things was state-secret levels of good.



The SR-71 can probably match speed.

It's just that the performance tables in the manual (which has been released to the public) only go down to mach 2.2, so you are outside of the certified/documented regimen.




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