The U2 Spy Plane

afterwards the end of the Second domain War, Russia immediately became a scourge to the join States, as they promoted the stretch let on of Communism. When Russia became the Soviet conglutination after World War II, they raise the Iron Curtain and stop off all admission fee and communication in and out of the country. This ignited the Cold War. The information on the Soviet Union was lacking, as traditional nitty-gritty of spying didnt cast because the Soviet Union was blockade off from the rest of the world. Since the U.S. was in a potential atomic war with the Soviet Union, the United States military ask to shit intelligence on the resistances military strength. Rumors of a strong Soviet armoury of bombers spread like wildfire and the U.S. needed proof that the bombers existed, so that they would claim adequate reasons to attack if needed. The U.S. governing desired some clear up of reconnaissance aircraft that could bring family photos of the Soviet Union, wi thout Soviet detection. In 1953, a project was made.\nThe U.S. personal credit line Force wrote a proposal to Lockheed Martin for an aircraft that could fly above 70,000 feet, as 70,000 feet was believed to be how far Soviet missiles were able to reach. It was to be utilize to fly over the Soviet Union and gain intelligence. However, this was illegal under international law, so the U.S had to maintain extreme privateness on this project. To maintain its secrecy, the U.S. came up with a cover story, stating that this aircraft was veritable strictly for the purpose of playing high altitude live on research. Lockheed Martin was given a caper to design a new reconnaissance aircraft, as null like this had ever existed before. The caller-out gave the assignment to their best aeronautical engineer, Clarence Kelly Johnson. Johnson took the project. He worked in a separate division of the company, normally called the mass Works. Johnson was the chief of the Skunk Works project theatrical role and designed the desired aircraft. ...