U-2 Spy Plane: The CIA’s Most Elusive Eye in the Sky

In 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev warned the world that his nation was making “missiles like sausages.” Fears of a rising - and extremely hostile - communist superpower were thus reignited in Washington, and only three years after the Russians had conducted their first successful test of a hydrogen bomb. Khrushchev accompanied his warning with a threat to shoot down any NATO aircraft that entered Soviet airspace.
Nevertheless, that summer, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the U-2 Dragon Lady spy planes’ very first mission over the Soviet Union.
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[@ThatGuy-sc5rx]

Grew up on the military base this and the sr71 was stored at and seen it in person

[@freethinkingamerican80]

Just read a book, well listened to it on Audible about Lockheed Skunkworks, excellent book.

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s-75 be like : hold my vodka comrade XD

[@NWCattleCo]

Great video to be watching while drinking Blackbeard. 🏴‍☠️

[@jeffermabob]

Coffee Ordie? Had no idea navy ordnance folks had their own coffee channel on UA-cam…

[@thatpointinlife]

Imagine being an Air Force Academy graduate, dreaming of flying the latest and greatest of super-sonic, advanced technology fighter and attack aircraft, and you get selected to fly the U-2.

[@doktorhabilitowanystanczyk]

"most elusive" 💀 what happened on May 1st 1960?

[@DOWNTOWN_AUDIO]

Dont get me wrong germany deserved what they got after ww2. They had to pay for their crimes, not indefinitely, in my opinion the fall of the berlin wall was when it was enough. But its messed up to see a country just cut up and divided like that.

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Make a vídeo about Richard flaherty the Giant killer

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Heh we know

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[@Charlie1776_]

So elusive it got shot down.