spy 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
Japan has accused a Chinese spy plane of breaching its airspace, in what would be the first known time that a Chinese plane has directly violated Japanese airspace.
From BBC • Aug. 26, 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
Why would the Americans send in a spy plane now, unless it was some sort of last-second reconnaissance before the bombers swept in?
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
