Lockheed U-2

Lockheed U-2 (atau nama gelaran Dragon Lady) merupakan sebuah pesawat pengintip aras tinggi, berenjin tunggal yang digunakan oleh Tentera Udara Amerika Syarikat dan pernah diterbangkan juga oleh Agensi Perisikan Pusat (CIA). Pesawat ini boleh melakukan misi pengintipan di aras tinggi (70,000 kaki, lebih 21,000 m) pada waktu siang atau malam, dan dalam semua keadaan cuaca. Pesawat ini juga digunakan untuk penyelidikan dan pembangunan penderia elektronik, mententukur satelit, dan mengesahkan data satelit.

Pengguna 

 Tentera Udara Amerika Syarikat
 Pentadbiran Angkasa dan Aeronautik Kebangsaan

 Tentera Udara Republik China

Spesifikasi (U-2S)

Lihat juga

Rujukan

Nota

Bibliografi 

 ABC News Correspondent Gets Rare Chance to Fly as Civilian in Spy Plane" ABC News 
 Hobson, Chris. Vietnam Air Losses, USAF, USN, USMC, Fixed-Wing Aircraft Losses in Southeast Asia 1961 - 1973. North Branch, Minnesota: Specialty Press, 2001. ISBN 1-85780-115-6.
 Miller, Jay. Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works: The Official History... (updated edition). Leicester, UK: Midland Publishing Ltd., 1995. ISBN 1-85780-037-0.
 Pedlow, Gregory W. and Donald E. Welzenbach. The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974. Washington, DC: CIA, 1992.
 Polmar, Norman. Spyplane: The U-2 History Declassified. St Paul, Minnesota: Zenith Imprint, 2001. ISBN 0-7603-0957-4.
 The World's Great Stealth and Reconnaissance Aircraft. New York: Smithmark, 1991. ISBN 0-8317-9558-1.

Pautan luar 

 U-2S/TU-2S USAF Fact sheet
 U-2 page on GlobalSecurity.org
 U-2 page on WorldsAirSpace.com 
 First-hand experience of launching the U2
 Black Cat Squadron
 Pentagon To Retire U2 Spy Plane (UPI) 5 January 2006 
 Documents and Photographs regarding the U-2 Spy Plane Incident of 1960, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library 
 A Wild Ride from the Edge of Space (Southwest Texas LIVE!) 17 October 2006
 The Sky Still Burns in Your Memory (Southwest Texas LIVE!) 17 October 2006
 Taiwan Filmmakers creating film about Taiwan's U-2 Blackcat Squadron (Southwest Texas LIVE!) 17 December 2006
 Aviators of Laughlin AFB, Texas (Southwest Texas LIVE!) 26 April 2007
 U2 plane used in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. 

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Isyarat perisikan
U-2, Lockheed