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A series of reconnaissance drones derived from the Firebee, the Ryan Model 147 Lightning Bug series, were used by the US to spy on North Vietnam, Communist China, and North Korea in the 1960s and early 1970s.
The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is an American single-engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated from the 1950s by the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
U-2, single-seat, high-altitude jet flown by the United States for intelligence gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Perhaps the most famous spy plane ever built, the U-2, also known as the Dragon Lady, has been in service since 1956.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE U-2 SPY PLANE PROGRAM. The late 1940s and 1950s were trying times for America. The emerging Cold War escalated the risk of a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union involving use of atomic weapons, including hydrogen bombs.
2 Spyplane, Toward the Unknown, A New History of the Early Years — is the most comprehensive examination to date of the design, production, and deployment of the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.
The U-2 Spyplane: Toward the Unknown, A New History of the Early Years - CSI. Go to CIA.gov. Center for the Study of Intelligence. Books & Monographs. Studies in Intelligence.
e know that U–2 spy planes were designed and built by Lockheed Aicraft for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the early 1950s,to conduct clandestine overflights of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and other denied areas of the world. At that time,these planes became our most important source of intelligence on the Soviet Union.
