Ukraine's domestic security agency detained an air force officer on charges of having spied for Russia by leaking the location of prized fighter jets.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is preparing to retire its fleet of Russian-origin MiG-21 fighter jets in September. The aircraft ...

Footage of a United States U-2 spy plane that captured imagery of the Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the continental United States which was later shot down over the Atlantic Ocean.

Powers is the son of Francis Gary Powers Sr., the CIA U-2 pilot whose capture by the Soviet Union in 1960 became one of the ...

Even more Top Secret than the Lockheed SR-71, the D-21 drone was a promising Cold War idea that could have eliminated the need for manned overflights, ...

Welcome Back to the Daily Aviation as we explore the history and evolution of the U-2 spy plane, from its Cold War origins under Lockheed’s Skunk Works to modern high-altitude reconnaissance missions.

Step into a gripping real-life story of Cold War espionage by attending “Letters from a Soviet Prison,” a presentation by Francis Gary Powers Jr. at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum in ...

One of the distinctive Dragon Lady surveillance jets participated in this year's Royal International Air Tattoo as part of ...

The payload Russia's military chose to launch on the Angara A5 is unusual. The rocket deployed its primary passenger, Kosmos ...

Powers had just had his Lockheed U-2 Spy plane suffer structural failure from a near miss of a Soviet SAM (surface-to-air missile) and the aircraft broke apart.

USAF’s venerable U-2 spy plane is fascinating to observe both taking off and landing. But to experience that activity at night - well, it’s something special.

Eight U-2 Spy Planes Seen in ‘Elephant Walk’ Aviation buffs may be lucky to see a single U-2 spy plane – apart from the few that are in a museum – but earlier this month, eight of the ...