Inside America's U-2 Spyplane [video]
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Re: Inside America's U-2 Spyplane [video]
#2The details about the camera equipment seems to be newly declassified. Super interesting.
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#3I hope all the film from over the decades has been kept and one day it can be declassified and digitized. It would be amazing history.
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#4Very interesting. I would suggest you tag this as video.
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#5wow, they still use analog film
Re: Inside America's U-2 Spyplane [video]
#6The details about the camera equipment seems to be newly declassified. Super interesting.
If you enjoyed this video definitely check out Skunk Works by Ben Rich. He ran the experimental R&D wing that developed the U2, SR-71 and the F-117. It has really interesting information about the development and operation of all these planes. Some of which I was shocked as allowed to be printed.
Re: Inside America's U-2 Spyplane [video]
#7The details about the camera equipment seems to be newly declassified. Super interesting.
If you enjoyed this video definitely check out Skunk Works by Ben Rich. He ran the experimental R&D wing that developed the U2, SR-71 and the F-117. It has really interesting information about the development and operation of all these planes. Some of which I was shocked as allowed to be printed.
Second this. Skunk Works by Ben Rich is basically a real life Tom Clancy novel
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#8If you liked this James May did a documentary called James May at the edge of space for the bbc a few years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May_at_the_Edge_of_Space and a companion about the moon landings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May_on_the_Moon
Re: Inside America's U-2 Spyplane [video]
#9Fascinating history. The original intention of the planes was for the purpose of breaking international law (violating airspace in a way believed to be undetectable) until flights, in practice, showed that other countries were in fact able to detect them. Rather than retract the program, the US doubled down on stealth technologies so that it would be able to continue.
Also, the history (70 year old plane) has a great look into military and intelligence collaboration with American industrial design firms, like Lockheed Martin.
The "grown up versions" of this are probably all classified at this point. The declassified modern capabilities give some hint to what the CIA is able to do. The ARGUS-IS is able to surveil, in high definition, in real time, entire cities while tracking thousands of targets, identifying them as people by their shadows, synthesize data with other sensors (cellular, wireless surveillance, etc), all without being detected.
Re: Inside America's U-2 Spyplane [video]
#10If you liked this James May did a documentary called James May at the edge of space for the bbc a few years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May_at_the_Edge_of_Space and a companion about the moon landings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May_on_the_Moon
There's also a very good late-season episode of Mythbusters that almost entirely dispenses with their format because Adam Savage had the chance to ride in a U-2.