The legacy of the US military developing some of the world's most iconic and successful surveillance aircraft looks set to continue into the future.

A wide range of aircraft were deployed to the Cuban Missile Crisis - from spy planes to nuclear-armed strategic bombers.

The Cold War was at its height and the U.S. had been flying Lockheed U-2 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by ...

Initially developed by the Lockheed Skunk Works division under complete secrecy, the U-2 performed its maiden flight in 1955. Shortly thereafter, the CIA began flights over the Soviet Union to ...