The Retirement Of The U-2 Moves Forward

U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt. Eric Harris  

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Each day, combat commanders around the world demand more and more U-2 missions The last time most, albeit older, Americans heard of the Lockheed U-2, Dragon Lady, was on May 1, 1960, when a USSR surface-to-air missile downed one piloted by Francis Gary Powers over the Soviet Union. 

The U-2 was the 1954 brainchild of President Eisenhower, who sought eyes in the sky to learn whether America’s WWII ally turned Cold War adversary – which had, in 1953, detonated a hydrogen bomb – possessed the technology to produce high-end bombers and long-range missiles. 

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Update #1: U-2 Retirement Moves Forward With Defense Secretary Decision (Warzone)  

Update #2: Biden admin gives China an edge? Pentagon retires spy plane that detected balloon (Light Waves Report)  

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