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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

They include a highly sophisticated and rare A-50 military spy plane.

From BBC Feb. 28, 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

One year and nine months after his U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviets, the pilot-spy Francis Gary Powers crossed into West Berlin, a free man.

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



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