Manned ISR (Page 4)

By Tim McMillan and Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Dec 1, 2019

U-2

Special Access Programs And The Pentagon’s Ecosystem Of Secrecy

Updated on Dec 1, 2019

SR-71

Behold The SR-71 Blackbird’s Raw Power In This Crazy Low-Light Afterburner Photo (Updated)

Updated on Nov 3, 2019

E-2

Navy Training Squadron Receives First E-2D Hawkeye With New Aerial Refueling Capability

Posted on Sep 12, 2019

RC-135

USAF MC-130J Spec Ops Transport Flies Through Taiwan Strait With U.S. Spy Plane Nearby

Updated on Aug 30, 2019

U-2

Wait, The USAF Is Spending Hundreds Of Thousands Airlifting Two Dodge Chargers To The UK?

Posted on Aug 27, 2019

Northrop Grumman’s Optionally Manned Firebird Aircraft Has Its First Official Customers

Posted on Jul 17, 2019

RC-135

Home Of Strategic Command And Some Of The USAF’s Most Prized Aircraft Is Flooding (Updated)

Updated on Jul 16, 2019

SR-71

This Overview Of NASA’s SR-71 Blackbird Is A Must Watch

Posted on Jul 13, 2019

U-2

Lockheed Is Proposing a Major ‘Triple Intelligence’ Upgrade for the U-2 Spy Plane

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

E-3

USAF’s New Ground Tracking Radar Plan Desperately Needs Stealthy Flying Sensor Trucks

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Now Russia Is Demanding US Stop Spying Near Its Borders After Buzzing Navy Spy Plane

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

USAF Uses Textron’s Scorpion Jet As the Latest Testbed for Its Modular Sensor Pod

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

RC-135

Award Reveals USAF Rivet Joint Spied on Iranian Forces During 2016 Hostage Crisis

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

A-50/A-100

Bristling With Antennas, Russia’s A-100 Is Likely More Than Just A New Radar Plane

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

The Army’s Latest Spy Planes Are Flying Hundreds of Hours Overseas

Updated on Jun 30, 2019

Northrop Grumman MQ-25 Drone Tanker Testbed Emerges At Plant 42 In California

Updated on Jun 29, 2019

USAF Says Spec Ops Light Attack Program Will Complement Larger OA-X Effort

Updated on Jun 29, 2019

The US Navy May Have Watered Down Its MQ-25 Drone Even More

Updated on Jun 29, 2019

The U.S. Army’s Newest Spy Plane Is in Action in Africa and Latin America

Updated on Jun 29, 2019

The Air Force’s Special Operations PC-12s Finally Have An Official Nickname

Posted on Jun 20, 2019

U.S. Military Is Sending Fighter Jets, Recon Aircraft, Engineers, and More To The Middle East (Updated)

Updated on May 24, 2019

This Navy Squadron’s Music Video Is the Most Wonderfully Horrible ’80s Thing Ever

Updated on May 17, 2019

Optionally Manned Firebird Rapidly Matures Ahead Of International Debut This Summer

Updated on May 2, 2019

SR-71

SR-71’s “R2-D2” Could Be The Key To Winning Future Fights In GPS Denied Environments

Updated on Apr 16, 2019

RC-135

One of Saudi Arabia’s RE-3A Spy Planes Now Looks Just Like a U.S. Air Force RC-135

Updated on Apr 16, 2019

E-8

A U-2 Spy Plane Is Flying Peculiar Tracks High Over South Las Vegas (Updated)

Updated on Apr 9, 2019

RC-135

That USAF RC-135 Rivet Joint Caribbean Spy Flight Was Far More Common Than Most Think

Posted on Feb 16, 2019

SR-71

This SR-71 Blackbird Cockpit Tour Is The Most Fascinating Thing You’ll See All Week

Updated on Feb 7, 2019

U-2

A U-2 Spy Plane Just Did The Flyover For The College Football National Championship Game

Updated on Jan 8, 2019

E-2

Behold These Gorgeous Shots Of An E-2D Hawkeye Testing Its New Refueling Capability With A KC-10

Updated on Dec 24, 2018

Northrop Grumman Plans To Upend Aerial Surveillance Market With Their Optionally Manned Firebird

Posted on Dec 14, 2018

RC-135

USAF Frantically Stole Parts From One RC-135 To Get Another Airborne To Spy On A Missile Launch

Posted on Oct 18, 2018

E-7

U.K. Could Hand Deal Straight To Boeing For New Royal Air Force E-7 Radar Planes

Updated on Oct 3, 2018

We Have The Best Images And Video Yet Of The H03 Firebird Spy Plane And Boy Does It Sound Odd

Updated on Sep 21, 2018

Russia’s Claim That Israeli F-16s Used Their Doomed Il-20 Spy Plane As Cover Doesn’t Add Up

Updated on Sep 18, 2018

By Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick

Russian IL-20 Surveillance Plane Went Down Off Syrian Coast During Israeli Missile Barrage (Updated)

Updated on Sep 18, 2018

U-2

USAF Plans To Drastically Boost Flexibility of U-2s and RQ-4s By Adding Modular ‘Agile Pods’

Posted on Sep 11, 2018

U-2

USAF Plans To Test A System Called ‘Symphony’ Inside An ‘Irascible Pod’ On A U-2 Spy Plane

Posted on Jul 28, 2018

Red Bull Definitely Didn’t Give Wings To The Crew of This Air Force MC-12W Spy Plane

Updated on Jul 6, 2018

Photo Of Secretive French Spy Plane Supporting Campaign Against ISIS Slips Out Online

Posted on May 17, 2018

Northrop Grumman’s ‘H03’ Firebird Spy Plane Is Now Flying At Mojave Air and Space Port

Updated on May 5, 2018

E-2

The Five Coolest Military Aviation Videos From Around Social Media This Week

Updated on May 5, 2018

Mysterious Northrop Grumman Spy Plane Emerges At The Mojave Air and Space Port

Updated on Apr 5, 2018

Navy Releases Video Of Russian Flanker Buzzing EP-3E Aries II Spy Plane

Updated on Jan 30, 2018

E-2

French Rafale Fighters Will Deploy Aboard An American Supercarrier This April

Updated on Jan 13, 2018

By Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick

Document Confirms B-21 To Be Delivered Optionally Manned And Nuclear Capable

Updated on Nov 8, 2017

E-8

USAF May Dump Its E-8C JSTARS Replacement Program For A Shadowy “Distributed” Solution

Updated on Oct 5, 2017

E-11

We Chew The Fat About BACN With Program Boss And Airman Who Used It In Combat

Updated on Aug 19, 2017

SR-71

Check Out All These Blackbird Videos NASA Just Released

Posted on Jul 22, 2017

U-2

U-2 Flies in Alaska Exercise for First Time, But Not as a Spy Plane

Posted on May 22, 2017

U-2

Air Force Releases Causes Of Recent B-52 And U-2 Crashes

Updated on Apr 27, 2017

Shadowy UAE Base in Libya Hosts Attack Aircraft and Chinese Drones

Posted on Oct 28, 2016

U-2

A U-2 Dragon Lady Trainer Has Crashed In California (Updated)