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Why would the Americans take the insane risk of overflying Soviet territory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960
by dontbenebby 7y ago
Why would the Americans take the insane risk of overflying Soviet territory?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident
- hendzen 7y agoThanks - I’m very familiar with the U2 program. Stealthy reconnaissance missions at 70k ft are very different than trolling a squadron of F22s at 30k ft and lower during a known training mission.
- dontbenebby 7y agoWere they "stealthy"? Or just assumed to be too high to be shot down? (Which did end up happening)
- hendzen 7y agoFair point, though as far as I know they didn’t intentionally troll soviet fighter jets.