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2022-07-07 Science & Technology

60-Year Old U-2 Spyplane Still Seeks Out The Enemy

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-07 07:34|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Satchel Paige: "It ain't braggin' if you can do it..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-07 15:37|| 2022-07-07 15:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Loiter time and relatively cheap to operate compared to the Blackbird or orbital platforms, and it goes where you have minimal coverage and boosts imagery bigly. I'm reminded of large scale maneuvers at Ft. Irwin in the early 80's when we would stop certain things or reconfigure the location of key assets so that the SovBirds couldn't get a solid template of what went where for targeting doctrine. The Sat overpass times were specific and upon occasion we wrote things on white packing materials that were decidedly impolite and often anatomically impossible.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-07-07 16:44|| 2022-07-07 16:44|| Front Page Top

#3 You can predict orbital passes. U2 flights, not so easy to predict.

Posted by Chealing Chomotle4158 2022-07-07 22:38|| 2022-07-07 22:38|| Front Page Top

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