In October 1967, during the Vietnam War, a CIA-operated A-12 "Oxcart" spy plane flew high-speed reconnaissance missions over Hanoi. Pilot Dennis Sullivan navigated the aircraft at 84,000 feet and over ...
TOKYO, Japan: Japanese warplanes deployed flares on Tuesday to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft that had breached northern Japan's airspace, prompting strong protests from Tokyo. Japanese ...
Following on the heels of several U-2 spy plane shootdowns, Washington was no longer willing to authorize overflights of Soviet territory which the A-12 had been designed to perform. Meanwhile ...
Germany's Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft were scrambled due to a flight of a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance plane over the international waters of the Baltic Sea, the German Air Force said on Oct. 16.