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How the USSR Tried to Clone a US Spy Plane After Shooting It Down—And Still Failed

Summary by united24media.com
In the early 1960s, the Soviet Union attempted to reverse-engineer the American U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, launching a domestic program under the designation S-13. Despite technical efforts led by the Beriev Design Bureau in Taganrog, the project was ultimately discontinued before any prototypes reached flight testing. According to Defense Express on May 8, the initiative followed the May 1960 shootdown of a US U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk re…
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united24media.com broke the news in on Thursday, May 8, 2025.
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