The SR-71 Blackbird’s high-speed missions were fraught with challenges, including catastrophic engine failures at Mach 3.

The aircraft also carried four 23 mm cannon ... it is reported the Hungarians shot down a Soviet photo reconnaissance Il-28R on Nov. 8. Hungary had used the type as well in the uprising, bombing ...

the service fielded the cutting-edge aircraft in reconnaissance missions during the Vietnam War. The Blackbirds would subsequently be used in intelligence-gathering operations over the Soviet ...

The Soviet MiG-25, which was first introduced in 1970, was built as a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft. Due to the aircraft's large wings, the US assumed it was a highly ...

This adaptability made Spiral a hybrid of spacecraft and aircraft ... role platform for reconnaissance, satellite interception, and even space-based strikes. In 1965, the Soviet Air Force tasked ...

THE FRAGILE detente between the US and the Soviet Union quickly unraveled in 1960, when the U-2 spy plane incident – in which an American reconnaissance aircraft was shot down over Soviet ...

On April 15, 1969, a United States Navy EC-121M reconnaissance aircraft codenamed “Deep Sea 129” was shot out of the sky by a ...

A Chinese Y-9 reconnaissance aircraft briefly violated Japan’s ... over a group of Russian-held islands, which the former Soviet Union seized from Japan at the end of World War II.