During the Cold War, it flew over the Soviet Union and other communist countries. One of these planes was famously shot down in 1960 by Soviet Air Defense Forces. The high-flying U-2 can provide ...

The U-2 is a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft that can fly at over 70,000 feet and collect intelligence. Made by Lockheed Corporation, it was introduced in the mid-1950s and has been operated by ...

In the late 1940s, Arctic temperatures were warming and the Cold War was heating up ... to routinely cross Greenland’s ice sheet, while planes landed and took off from ice and snow runways.

More than three decades after the end of the Cold War, we might finally be shutting down the Cold War broadcasting apparatus. If so, it's about time. And you don't have to agree with the White ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has died at home in England. Gordievsky died on March 4 in England ...

The RAF Museum Midlands is home to a vast collection of former war ... planes set up inside the site's hangars. Among the displays at the museum, based at RAF Cosford in Shropshire, is the ...