DAYTON, Ohio -- "Dragon Lady: The U-2 and Early Cold War Reconnaissance" exhibit in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo)
For more than 50 years, Lockheed Martin's U-2 has played a vital role in American strategic intelligence. The unique high-flying reconnaissance jet was designed early in the Cold War to overfly and photograph military activities in the Soviet Union and other communist nations. The U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady" after a comic strip character of the 1930s, has been used by the U.S. Air Force, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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