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The Myasishchev M-55 (NATO reporting name: Mystic-B) is a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft [3] developed by OKB Myasishchev in the Soviet Union, similar in mission to the Lockheed ER-2, but with a twin-boom fuselage and tail surface design.
Designated RB-57F, the design was almost an entirely new aircraft with a three-spar wing structure of 122 feet span, powerful new Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-11 main engines and two detachable underwing J60-P-9s for boost thrust at high altitude. The aircraft carried high-altitude cameras which were able to take oblique shots at 45 degrees up to 60 ...
M-52 eight-engine heavy transport aircraft, 1979; M-55 "Mystic-B": high-altitude research and reconnaissance aircraft, 1985; M-60: widebody airliner projects; many variants, 1985-2003; M-61/M-17PV: development of M-17, 1984; M-62 Oryol: high-altitude remote-controlled drone, 1975; M-63: high-altitude aircraft, 1981; M-65/M-17P: M-17 development ...
Military aircraft. M-4 - 1953 strategic bomber; M-55 - 1978 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft; VM-T - 1981 military transport aircraft; Civilian aircraft.
The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is an American single-engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated from the 1950s by the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It provides day and night, high-altitude (70,000 feet, 21,300 meters), all-weather intelligence gathering. [1]
Myasishchev M-55, a Soviet reconnaissance aircraft; M55 self propelled howitzer, an American self-propelled artillery piece; M55 machine gun trailer mount, an American quadruple .50 caliber machine gun system based on the M45 Quadmount; Zastava M55, a Yugoslav/Serbian anti-aircraft gun; Tikka M55, a Finnish rifle
In November 1954, President Eisenhower approved the secret development of a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft called the U-2 program. One of the first orders of business was to track down a ...
A USAF SR-71 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. A reconnaissance aircraft (colloquially, a spy plane) is a military aircraft designed or adapted to perform aerial reconnaissance with roles including collection of imagery intelligence (including using photography), signals intelligence, as well as measurement and signature intelligence.