The Soviet Union continued to invest heavily in the development of capable next-generation fighter and bomber aircraft ...

Summary and Key Points: The U-2 spy plane's vulnerability ... After all, as the U.S. Navy often puts it, an aircraft carrier is four acres of sovereign American territory anywhere in the world ...

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 ...

UFOs are now known as UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) to make their serious reporting and study more palatable to the ...

The aircraft was retired due ... of the U-2 Dragon Lady high-altitude spy plane, according to the Smithsonian Institution. In 1960, an American U-2 pilot, Francis Gary Powers, was downed when ...

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 Mach 3.26.

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 ...

NASA’s high-flying ER-2 aircraft (a retrofitted U-2 spy plane) carries instrumentation in this artist’s impression of the ALOFT mission to record gamma rays (colored purple for illustration ...

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 ...