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Even before the first operational flight of the U-2 spy plane, aircraft designers began work on the type's replacement. The result was the SR-71. First deployed on March 9, 1968, this tri-sonic 'hotrod' flew its first operational sortie over North Vietnam just 12 days later. Thereafter, the SR-71 roamed freely, capturing photographic, radar and electronic intelligence. This book examines the impact this aircraft had, not only on North Vietnam but during the Cold War as a whole, gathering information about the Soviet nuclear submarine fleet based in Vladivostok as well as the port's defenses, monitoring the actions of North Korea and flying four 11-hour, non-stop sorties into the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War in the late 1980s.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Warfare & defence Air forces & warfare

• Full title: Lockheed Sr-71 Operations in the Far East
• Author: Paul F Crickmore
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9781846033193
• ISBN: 1846033195
• ID: 04275255
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 364 g
• Dimensions: 186 × 244 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. November 2008

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