Originally designed as a medium bomber, the B-47 also had a lesser known and more secretive role in the Cold War, serving in a reconnaissance role as the RB-47 to monitor the Soviet military and its Warsaw Pact allies. Shot down just two months after the famous U-2 incident, the RB-47 also made overflights behind […]
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