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spy plane

NOUN
high-altitude military reconnaissance plane
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The U.S. sent a P-8A Poseidon spy plane but elected not to send a destroyer as it had in the past.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 10, 2026

He was that Francis Gary Powers, the Air Force officer piloting a U2 spy plane that the Russians shot down in 1960.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2024

Ukraine's defence intelligence described the strike as a special operation similar to January's attack on a Russian A-50 spy plane.

From BBC Apr. 19, 2024

The best known is NASA's ER-2, a derivative of the U-2 spy plane with a tiny fuselage and gangling, oversized wings.

From Scientific American Sep. 20, 2023

News that Powers had not landed as planned in Norway jolted the CIA, and the president was alerted immediately that the U-2 spy plane had almost certainly gone down.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau



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