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Universal Newsreel about the 1960 U-2 incident Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the plane. On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory.
U-2 Incident (May 1960), confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France.
9 lis 2009 · The U‑2 Spy Incident was an international diplomatic crisis that erupted in May 1960 when the USSR shot down an American U‑2 spy plane and imprisoned its pilot.
18 maj 2018 · u-2 incident. On 1 May 1960 a U-2 reconnaissance and research aircraft piloted by Francis Gary Powers, on a surveillance mission for the CIA, was shot down over the Soviet Union (over Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg) by a SAM-2 missile.
The U-2 Incident was a confrontation in 1960 between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union and caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris.
Gary Powers and U-2. Francis Gary Powers, the CIA-employed pilot at the center of the 1960 controversy. Cold War tensions fuelled a constant demand for up-to-date intelligence about the ‘enemy’. One innovation, developed and built by the United States company Lockheed, was the U-2 spy plane.
Incydent U2 poważnie zagroził bezpieczeństwu Pakistanu i pogorszył jego stosunki ze Stanami Zjednoczonymi. Gen. Khalid Mahmud Arif (inne języki) z armii pakistańskiej, komentując ten incydent, stwierdził, że „Pakistan czuł się oszukany, ponieważ Stany Zjednoczone trzymały w tajemnicy cele tajnych operacji szpiegowskich ...
