photo-recce

  1. Michel Van

    Keyhole satellite projects

    This here is overview of several projects for NRO Keyhole Spy Sats like DORIAN, SPARTAN, SAMOS or FULCRUM MOL aka KH-10 DORIAN KH-11 KENNEN The SPARTAN reconnaissance satellite program Proposal to use NRO camera on Apollo Mission Source material...
    • Michel Van
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    • central intelligence agency cia cold war corona fulcrum mol nasa national reconnaissance office nro photo-recce photographic reconnaissance samos spy sat united states united states air force
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  2. T

    Project Verticon

    Hi, from the CIA archive (link) a detailed report about the Verticon project, a photo recce payload to be used with Aerobee rockets.
    • Temistocle
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    • battlefield reconnaisance central intelligence agency cold war covert operations defense products division fairchild camera and instrument corporation meteorological survey photo-recce photographic reconnaissance rocket strategic reconnaissance tactical reconnaissance united states vertical firing rockets weather reconnaissance
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  3. overscan (PaulMM)

    Spyflights & Overflights : Cold War Aerial Reconnaissance

    Nice-looking new title from Crecy/Hikoki from RC-135-pilot-turned-historian Robert S Hopkins III. Spyflights & Overflights Cold War Aerial Reconnaissance RRP: £29.95 Few aviation subjects have been shrouded in more secrecy or been more controversial than cold war aerial reconnaissance. Former...
    • overscan (PaulMM)
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    • central intelligence agency cold war cuban missile crisis elint north atlantic treaty organisation photo-recce photographic reconnaissance republic of china air force royal air force royal swedish air force signals intelligence strategic air command strategic reconnaissance united states air force vietnam war
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
  4. Flyaway

    KH-11 KENNEN

    New article from AW, including an image captioned 'This accurate model show the original KH-11 design that, like Hubble, carried about a 8-ft. mirror but with a shorter instrument base section.' Just looks like an image of Hubble to me & it would be a first for an image of it to be reproduced of...
    • Flyaway
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    • central intelligence agency cold war national reconnaissance office photo-recce photographic reconnaissance post-cold war space race spy sat strategic reconnaissance united states united states air force
    • Replies: 104
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  5. P

    "Sitting Ducks and Peeping Toms" - Targets, Drones and UAVs (Air-Britain)

    . I don't know where this really belongs (if at all) anyway, out of interest, Air Britain have (?) released a new book on RAF unmanned aircraft / target drones / recon drones called "Sitting Ducks and Peeping Toms" - I do NOT know if any projected models are included :-...
    • phil gollin
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    • aerial gunnery target aerial torpedo british army cold war drone early 21st century electronic warfare fleet air arm interwar period late 20th century photo-recce post-cold war royal air force royal navy tactical reconnaissance target drone unmanned aerial vehicle war on terror world war i world war ii
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
  6. overscan (PaulMM)

    Convair A-44

    XA-44, later became XB-53 From http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil
    • overscan (PaulMM)
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    • allies attack bomber convair escort fighter ground attack late 1940s light bomber photo-recce post-world war ii united states united states army air forces world war ii
    • Replies: 33
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  7. S

    Lockheed SR-71 / YF-12 Blackbird

    Just wondering if anyone knows what the tested maximum altitude and speed of the A-12/SR71 was? I contacted the USAF recently and they simply stuck to the published figures saying it flew at 85,000ft and could reach Mach 3.3. This doesn't seem to make sense as variants of the F-4, F-104 and...
    • Stormbreaker
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    • air defence air defense command central intelligence agency cold war elint interceptor lockheed nuclear battlefield photo-recce post-cold war remote sensing sr-71 strategic air command strategic defence strategic reconnaissance supersonic united states united states air force vietnam war world war iii
    • Replies: 192
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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