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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

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

As the two Russian SU-27s approached the RAF spy plane, they received a communication from their ground station controller.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2023

News that Powers had not landed as planned in Norway jolted the CIA, and the president was alerted immediately that the U-2 spy plane had almost certainly gone down.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau



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