photographic reconnaissance

  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...
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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
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  2. Temistocle

    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.
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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
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    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  3. uk 75

    Keeping the Hunter and Canberra longer

    A bit of a Brain sneeze prompted by reading the Vanguard book on the Su25 in which the author noted thst the Soviet Union found thst the Mig 17 performed better in the ground attack role than the later Mig and Sukhoi designs that replaced them. The Canberra and Hunter replacement programmes for...
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    • alternate history elint fighter bomber great britain photo-recce photographic reconnaissance post-cold war royal air force royal aircraft establishment royal navy sigint strategic bomber strategic reconnaissance tactical reconnaissance training aircraft what-if
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  4. Flyaway

    Public Release of SIGINT Phase II Records

    More on link below including the declassified documents themselves. http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/SIGINT_PhaseII.html
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    • central intelligence agency cold war electronic warfare lockheed national reconnaissance office national security agency photographic reconnaissance post-world war ii rand corporation signals intelligence space age space race spy sat strategic reconnaissance tactical reconnaissance united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  5. 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...
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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
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    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
  6. 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...
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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: 128
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  7. hesham

    Postwar Beriev Landplane Projects

    Hi, also here is some Beriev projects; An-24FK a VTOL Antonov An-24. Be-32P a four-engined version of Be.32,transport aircraft. http://lib.rus.ec/b/373000/read
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    • anti-submarine warfare beriev beriev design bureau civil aviation cold war commonwealth of independent states general aviation naval aviation photographic reconnaissance post-cold war red fleet russian federation soviet air forces soviet navy soviet union stol transport aircraft ussr v/stol aircraft vtol
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  8. Michel Van

    Germans Cold War Spyplanes - D-450 Egrett-1 D-500 G-520 Strato G-850 Strato C2

    in beginn of 1988, the German Media show picture of a unusual German Prototype Grob Werke D-450 Egrett-1 a propeller plane with extrem long wings [picture 1] this was joint Luftwaffe-USAF program "LAPAS" - called in U.S. "Senior Guardian" Luftgestütztes, abstandsfähiges Primär-Aufklärungssystem...
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    • cold war e-syatems e-systems elint experimental plane federal republic of germany glider grob aerospace grob-worke groß aerospace groß-worke photographic reconnaissance reconnaissance sigint signals intelligence spyplane strategic reconnaissance testbed united states west germany
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  9. overscan (PaulMM)

    Secret Projects: Military Space Technology by Bill Rose

    I must preface this first look review by saying that, while I'm interested in space technology, its not my speciality, so I'm approaching this book from this angle. Bill Rose has put together a well written and nicely illustrated book on various military space projects. Its 192 pages long and...
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    • anti-satellite cold war early 21st century electronic warfare elint great britain late 20th century nasa photographic reconnaissance post-cold war signals intelligence soviet union space weapons spaceplane ssto strategic reconnaissance tactical reconnaissance third reich united states world war ii
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    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
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