The U-2 Dragon Lady is one of America’s most famous spy aircraft
With Tom Cruise’s new film Top Gun: Maverick breaking records worldwide, the entire world is reminded about how dangerous pilots live. And we all get to be reminded about America’s tech lead in reconnaissance aircraft . Naturally, The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed Dragon Lady remains America’s most famous spy plane ever and its History is more intriguing than Maverick ’s live or any Ian Fleming spy novel. As you’ve probably imagined by now, the Dragon Lady is the product of the Cold War, when the globe was divided between two spheres of influence and the two superpowers were engaged in a frightening arms race. It is worth noting that only four years after the United States dropped its first nuclear bomb, the Russians detonated their own bomb on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. However, that wasn’t the only thing that frightened the Americans, considering that in 1954, Russia introduced to the world its newest bomber, Myasishchev M-4, nicknamed ...