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spy plane

NOUN
high-altitude military reconnaissance plane
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The U.S. sent a P-8A Poseidon spy plane but elected not to send a destroyer as it had in the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

He was that Francis Gary Powers, the Air Force officer piloting a U2 spy plane that the Russians shot down in 1960.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024

There has been no official reaction from Moscow to the claims that Ukraine has shot down a Russian A-50 spy plane.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024

The best known is NASA's ER-2, a derivative of the U-2 spy plane with a tiny fuselage and gangling, oversized wings.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2023

In the preceding weeks, Brooklyn had traveled by transatlantic jet, high-speed train, and unmarked spy plane.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti



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