Description
The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed “Dragon Lady”, is an American single-engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated since the 1950s by the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It provides day and night, high-altitude (above 70,000 feet, 21,300 meters), all-weather intelligence gathering.
In the mid-1970s (1975) six U-2Cs were deployed to the UK to test out a SIGINT system named PAVE ONYX against the Eastern Bloc. At least some of these machines were painted in a neat two-tone camouflage scheme — but it was a funny sort of camouflage, being only intended to fool the British public. The overall black color looked sinister, and so the British government asked that the aircraft be painted in a more conventional military color scheme to reassure the citizens.
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