What does U-2 stand for?

Bush told Blair that the US had drawn up a provocative plan "to fly U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, painted in UN colours, over Iraq with fighter cover.

The center provides worldwide logistics support for C-130 and C-5 transport aircraft, F-l 5 fighters, U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, as well as support for remotely piloted vehicles, Air Force helicopters, air-to-air missiles, surface motor vehicles and high-technology airborne electronics, avionics, and electronic warfare requirements.

It was this technology which is said to have been used much later by the Soviet Union to bring down the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft piloted by Gary Powers in 1960.

arms inspections using U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.

arms inspections using U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.

SprayCool([TM]) today announced that its thermal management systems were included in the first flight of Northrop Grumman Corporation's Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload (ASIP) aboard a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.

Smith's military career included attending the test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in 1965, serving as commander of the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft flight test program in the late 1960s, and serving as the chief test pilot and commander of the SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance test force in the early 1970s.

He once again authorized overflights using the new Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.