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 ...

An oxcart is not fast, but the A-12 Oxcart spy plane sure was. This aircraft was built to speed through the skies and collect ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.