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Total pages original book: 96
Includes a PDF summary of 9 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 6M3S (1.8 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
Other categories, genre or collection: Air Forces & Warfare, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Aircraft, Military History