When it comes to military aircraft, the roar of powerful fighters and the might of heavy bombers tend to dominate. But high ...

Image Credit: U.S.Air Force - Public Domain/Wiki Commons. Spy planes are the unsung legends of aviation, never the loudest, but often the most important. While most people rave about fighter jets and ...

Reconnaissance aircraft snoop around potentially hostile nations (or their ships) gathering photographic and electronic intelligence. Their crews would rather they are not referred to as ‘spy planes’ ...

The U-2 costs more and more to fly, is extremely demanding of its pilots, and is no longer essential for intelligence ...

Footage of a United States U-2 spy plane that captured imagery of the Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the ...

A Russian Tu-154 jet surveillance landed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in August to fly observation missions over the United States. The unarmed observation missions are permitted under the Open ...

A recently declassified CIA report on the development of the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes said the high-flying jets were mistaken for UFOs more than half the time in the late 1950s and 1960s during ...

NASHVILLE—The Army’s next-generation spy plane will begin flight tests this summer, then be delivered to the first units later this year—two years after the Army awarded Sierra Nevada Corporation $1 ...

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing demanded an end to U.S. surveillance near China on Thursday after two of its fighter jets carried out what the Pentagon said was an "unsafe" intercept of a U.S.