North Korea has developed its own airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft. Based on the Russian Ilyushin Il-76 ...

Still, there were some places on the map that the U-2 could not reach from the land-based airstrips that the spy plane exclusively ... and an MA from New York University. Harrison listens to ...

It was not clear why an additional Rivet Joint aircraft had been sent to Okinawa. In addition to the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army was tracked sending its new spy plane, the BD-700, which is a ...

Spearheaded by Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, the Blackbird project was initially conceptualized to fulfill the CIA’s need for a new spy plane. The intelligence agency had been previously relying ...

If a 16-ton CIA spy aircraft crashes into a mountainside amidst the pure-black inky darkness of night in Death Valley, does it make a sound? Over 70 years ago a mayday call came across the ...

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching speeds over three times the speed of sound, and the SR-72 is ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The U-2 Dragon Lady is a single engine spy plane capable of flying up to 475 MPH at an altitude of 70,000 feet. This is what it takes to service the plane every 7 ...

An Air Force spy plane has been forced to buzz a Russian warship in a tense showdown in the Channel. The dramatic meeting came ahead of crucial talks between military chiefs in London as world leaders ...

On Jan. 28, a new and unexpected threat floated into ... are the domain of very specialized aircraft such as the U-2 spy plane, which the Pentagon used to scout and photograph the balloon as ...

TOKYO--Japan said its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave northern Japanese airspace on Monday. Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara told reporters that the ...