Spyflights and Overflights: US Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance, 1945-1960 Hopkins Robert
Spyflights and Overflights: US Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance, 1945-1960 Hopkins Robert Few aviation subjects have been shrouded in more secrecy or been more controversial than Cold War aerial…
Specifikacia Spyflights and Overflights: US Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance, 1945-1960 Hopkins Robert
Spyflights and Overflights: US Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance, 1945-1960 Hopkins Robert
Few aviation subjects have been shrouded in more secrecy or been more controversial than Cold War aerial reconnaissance. Hopkins, III, offers new insights into strategic intelligence flights during the early years of the cold war. Former reconnaissance pilot Robert S.
Primarily undertaken by RB-50s and RB-47s of the Strategic Air Command and by CIA U-2s, other Western nations such as Britain, Sweden, and Taiwan were equally committed to gathering intelligence about the Soviet Union and its allies, and conducted their own peripheral and overflight missions.Hopkins challenges longstanding beliefs that the flights served to prevent war, curtailed needless defense spending, and were undertaken by rogue generals bent on starting World War III.For the first time he shows the Soviet perspective on the flights, and makes a compelling case that reconnaissance flights did not have a