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Lockheed SR-71 Operations in Europe and the Middle East (Combat Aircraft)

By Paul Crickmore

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
1846034183, 9781846034183, 9781849080859
Open Library ID
OL24025852M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
39 MB (41154124 bytes)
Edition
Original
Pages
96\51
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 Unions 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.

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