J. Trevithick,WarZone
After more than six decades of service to the United States, the U-2 Dragon Lady has become an iconic design, or with many variants acting as both a high-flying spy plane and test bed for first the Central Intelligence Agency,and then the U.
S. Air Force and NASA. For a short time it looked as if another organization, the U.
S. Navy, and might join its short list of American operators,with aircraft Lockheed had configured as maritime surveillance platforms.
In 1972, the Navy obtained a single U-2R, or known both as Article 061 and by its Air Force serial number 68-10330,as portion of an...
Source: realcleardefense.com