Between 1946 and 1960, the United States Air Force conducted aerial reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union in order to determine the size, composition...

Aerial reconnaissance is reconnaissance for a military or strategic purpose that is conducted using reconnaissance aircraft. The role of reconnaissance...

territory Aerial reconnaissance (flyover reconnaissance) United States aerial reconnaissance of the Soviet Union Surveillance aircraft Reconnaissance aircraft...

A reconnaissance aircraft (colloquially, a spy plane) is a military aircraft designed or adapted to perform aerial reconnaissance with roles including...

transformational growth in aerial reconnaissance occurred in the years 1939–45, especially in Britain and then in the United States. It was an expansion determined...

verifying the others' nuclear weapon developments. There would also be fixed-wing United States aerial reconnaissance of the Soviet Union during the 1950s...

a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory...

systems and downloaded the images via encrypted radio links. In the United States, most information available about reconnaissance satellites is on programs...

incident United States aerial reconnaissance of the Soviet Union Space-Based Reconnaissance by MAJ Robert A. Guerriero Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback...

list of aircraft used by the United States Air Force and its predecessor organizations for combat aerial reconnaissance and aerial mapping. The first...

starting in 1911, initially for reconnaissance, and then for aerial combat to shoot down the recon planes. The use of planes for strategic bombing emerged...

1960, a United States RB-47H reconnaissance plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing signals intelligence in the Barents...

Aerial refueling, also referred to as air refueling, in-flight refueling (IFR), air-to-air refueling (AAR), and tanking, is the process of transferring...

operator of the Blackbird, using it as a research platform; it was retired again in 1999. Mission equipment for the plane's aerial reconnaissance role included...

the battlefield unmanned aerial photo reconnaissance mission was a version of the MQM-33 conversion for the US Army in the mid-1950s designated the RP-71...

proliferated in the 21st century, particularly after the start of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020. Aerial reconnaissance is reconnaissance for a military...

1942 the United States has maintained air bases in the United Kingdom. Major Commands of the USAF having bases in the United Kingdom were the United States...

This list of the military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) includes experimental, prototypes, and operational...

This article deals with the history and development of tanks of the Soviet Union and its successor state, the Russian Federation; from their first use...

strategic aerial reconnaissance to help determine Soviet capabilities and intentions, and to prevent being caught off-guard as it had been in the attack...

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components of the United States military's strategic nuclear forces from 1946 to 1992. SAC was also responsible for strategic reconnaissance aircraft;...

surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle are used for reconnaissance, attack, demining, and target practice. Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine...

for the Soviet Union. The MiG-15 was one of the first successful jet fighters to incorporate swept wings to achieve high transonic speeds. In aerial combat...

Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War...

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the...

Polecat unmanned aerial vehicle Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3.3 very high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft Lockheed...

into aerial tankers for Tactical Air Command (TAC) (KB-50) and as weather reconnaissance aircraft (WB-50) for the Air Weather Service. Both the tanker...

involving the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Japan and Manchukuo in 1939. The conflict was named after the river Khalkhin Gol, which passes through the battlefield...

enemy reconnaissance penetrations over the homeland. Nine rammings took place on the very first day of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, one within...