Lockheed U-2 USAF Aerospace Power
airboyd.tv Courtesy United States Air Force Mission The U-2 provides high-altitude, all-weather surveillance and reconnaissance, day or night, in direct support of US and allied forces. It delivers critical imagery and signals intelligence to decision makers throughout all phases of conflict, including peacetime indications and warnings, low-intensity conflict, and large-scale hostilities. Features The U-2S is a single-seat, single-engine, high-altitude/near space reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft providing signals, imagery, and electronic measurements and signature intelligence, or MASINT. Long and narrow wings give the U-2 glider-like characteristics and allow it to quickly lift heavy sensor payloads to unmatched altitudes, keeping them there for extended periods of time. The U-2 is capable of gathering a variety of imagery, including multi-spectral electro-optic, infrared, and synthetic aperture radar products which can be stored or sent to ground exploitation centers. In addition, it also supports high-resolution, broad-area synoptic coverage provided by the optical bar camera producing traditional film products which are developed and analyzed after landing. The U-2 also carries a signals intelligence payload. All intelligence products except for wet film can be transmitted in near real-time anywhere in the world via air-to-ground or air-to-satellite data links, rapidly providing critical information to combatant commanders. MASINT provides indications of …
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May 12th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
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Great description here!
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May 12th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
is it true that Cuba took down one of this ??? Cause I’m cuban and I don’t know if it’s true or not
May 12th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
wow, that takeoff was amazing!
May 12th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
kind a late but why not just add camera on the nose
July 22nd, 2010 at 5:07 am
@MrJamDiaz soviet shot down one of these aircraft.. google “1960 u-2 incident”