| Tittel: | Unlimited horizons : Design and development of the U-2 | | Ansvar: | Peter W. Merlin | | Forfatter: | Merlin, Peter W.  | | Materialtype: | Bok | | Signatur: | Digital PDF | | Utgitt: | Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2015 | | Omfang: | viii, 293 pages - illustrations ; 25 cm. | | ISBN/ISSN: | 9781626830257 | | Klassenummer: | 623.74/67 | | Serie: | NASA Aeronautics Book Series | | NASA aeronautics book series | | Emneord: | "Den kalde krigen" / Flyhistorie / Flytype / Kald krig / Militærhistorie / NASA / U2 / U-2 / U-2 (Reconnaissance aircraft) - Design and construction / U-2 (Reconnaissance aircraft) - History | | Geografiske emneord: | USA | | Note: | "NASA/SP-2014-620."
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Over the span of more than six decades, the U-2 evolved from a relatively basic, high-altitude camera platform for performing clandestine reconnaissance missions into a complex, multisensor platform that has been adapted for a multitude of civil and military roles. Variants in more than a dozen configurations have been used for intelligence gathering, strategic and tactical reconnaissance, communications relay, battle-damage assessment, treaty monitoring and verification, disaster relief, environmental and Earth resources studies, and a wide variety of scientific research. Born of a Cold War necessity to maintain the balance of power between East and West, the U-2 now serves equally well as a high-altitude tool for tracking terrorists in the mountains of Afghanistan or for tracking the migration of destructive spruce bark beetles through the forests of Alaska.
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