The U.S. military is conducting ISR missions via aircraft along the southern border under President Donald Trump's executive order addressing border security and immigration.

but its legacy influenced future unmanned aerial surveillance technologies. On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a CIA U-2 spy plane and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. It was an ...

The Japan-based American spy planes are likely to continue their missions as the Chinese military deploys ships and aircraft around Taiwan for patrols and drills on a daily basis.

The spy plane then flew south of the inter-Korean ... for collecting data on ballistic missiles, in preparation for future North Korean weapon tests.

The U-2's old-style cameras still outperform other surveillance gear by delivering crisp images from above 70,000 feet The U-2 spy plane first became operational in 1956. Today the U.S. Air Force ...

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The SR-71 was capable of reaching speeds over three times the speed of sound, and the SR-72 is ...

These planes apparently fly in counter-clockwise patterns spanning several miles, and they stay roughly one mile above ground. The spy planes can be used to track suspects from the sky ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: But in 2007, the Kremlin all but confirmed the historians’ claim. Col. Aleksandr. Drobyshevsky, the chief spokesman of the Russian air force, confirmed in ...