China has lodged "stern representations" with the United States, accusing it of sending a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane into a no-fly zone over Chinese live-fire military drills on Tuesday ...

The Soviet MiG-25 "Foxbat" was a high-speed interceptor designed to counter U.S. spy planes like the U-2 and SR-71. With ...

For those too young to remember, the U-2 is an iconic American aircraft ... Forbes writer Jim Clash boarding a U-2 spy plane, Beale AFB, August 21, 2024. Clad in our space suits and after ...

As prep for a Kansas trip to participate in a KC-135 mid-air refueling, we thought it would be interesting to revisit other ...

Official documents record a dialogue between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. after a U.S. spy plane goes down ... down of an unarmed American civilian aircraft of the U-2 type over the Soviet Union.

In a September 1965 test, a YF-12 successfully launched a quarter-kiloton atomic missile, from an altitude of 75,000 feet at ...

Washington sources said Beijing might even move to charge the crew with espionage and put them on trial - a grim echo of the 1960 incident when an American U2 spy plane was shot down over Russia ...

Castro agreed. When in October 1962 American U-2 spy planes photographed missile sites in Cuba, the world approached the brink of a nuclear confrontation. As the tensions of the Missile Crisis ...

The Joint Staff Office under the Defense Ministry of Japan reported the Chinese military aircraft's movement within its air ...

On 1 May 1960, just thirteen days before the USA and the USSR were preparing to sit down for a summit meeting in Paris, an American U2 spy plane was shot down over the USSR. The USA claimed the U2 ...