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Turning A Spy Plane Into A Mach 3 Fighter Jet - The YF-12
Skunk works department of Lockheed, tasked with black projects throughout the cold war, was already working on A-12. This was ...
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Fifty Years Later, the SR-71 Blackbird Is Still the Fastest Plane Ever Built
Conceived in the late 1950s, as the Cold War was underway, the SR-71 was designed to fly ... covert surveillance birds. The U-2 spy plane was an iconic feature of America’s arsenal. But, by the 1950s, ...
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The SR-71 Blackbird Is Remembered for More Than Speed and Stealth
As the Cold War between the United States and USSR ... the Soviets’ advanced air defense systems. The resulting spy plane was the U-2. Nicknamed the “Dragon Lady,” this airframe successfully ...
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Space Race Time Line
Recently released documents reveal secret military plans ... spy missions that were part of humankind's ambitious journey into orbit and beyond. In this time line, explore the Cold War's secret ...
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Eisenhower's Foreign Affairs
Eisenhower Library As the dust settled after the Second World War, the United States and the ... an ultra-light, high-flying spy plane Since 1956, Eisenhower had authorized the U2 to conduct ...
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U.S. revives Cold War submarine spy program to counter China
according to three people with direct knowledge of the plans: conducting the biggest reconstruction of America’s anti-submarine spy program since the end of the Cold War. The revival of the ...
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Kukliński: How the CIA’s Best-Placed Cold War Spy Escaped the Eastern Bloc
According to many in US intelligence, Poland’s Colonel Ryszard Kukliński was one of the best-placed spies in the Eastern Bloc ... West on Colonel Kukliński and espionage during the Cold War. It seemed ...