Название: Lockheed SR-71 Operations in Europe and the Middle East
Серия: Combat Aircraft (80)
Автор: Paul Crickmore
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 96
Размер: 36 mb
Язык: English
Применение стратегического разведчика ВВС США Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird"
в Европе и на Ближнем Востоке.
In 1976, SR-71 Det 4 commenced operations from the Royal Air Force base at Middenhall in the United Kingdom.
Its mission was to monitor Warsaw Pact troop movements along the Iron Curtain and photograph the various ports
with access to the Batlic and Barents Seas that were home to the Soviet Union's nuclear submarine fleet.
Despite the best efforts of the USSR, they were never able to intercept a 'Blackbird' in flight.
The SR-71 continued its success during several missions over Libya. After surprise military strikes against several
targets in 1986, the SR-71s managed to fly over a sophisticated and fully-integrated defense system in order to take
bomb assessment photos.