Spyflights and Overflights: Us Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance 1945-1960 by Hopkins III, Robert S.

Spyflights and Overflights: Us Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance 1945-1960

Few aviation subjects have been shrouded in more secrecy or been more controversial than Cold War aerial...
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Author: Robert S. Hopkins III
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Language: English
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Spyflights and Overflights: Us Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance 1945-1960 by Hopkins III, Robert S.

Spyflights and Overflights: Us Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance 1945-1960

$107.13

Spyflights and Overflights: Us Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance 1945-1960

$107.13
Author: Robert S. Hopkins III
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Few aviation subjects have been shrouded in more secrecy or been more controversial than Cold War aerial reconnaissance. Former reconnaissance pilot Robert S. Hopkins, III, offers new insights into strategic intelligence flights during the early years of the cold war. Primarily undertaken by RB-50s and RB-47s of the Strategic Air Command and by CIA U-2s, other Western nations such as Britain, Sweden, and Taiwan were equally committed to gathering intelligence about the Soviet Union and its allies, and conducted their own peripheral and overflight missions.

Hopkins challenges longstanding beliefs that the flights served to prevent war, curtailed needless defense spending, and were undertaken by rogue generals bent on starting World War III.

For the first time he shows the Soviet perspective on the flights, and makes a compelling case that reconnaissance flights did not have a sustained adverse effect on Soviet relations with the West.

Using newly-declassified materials, interviews with crews and policy makers, and his own experience flying strategic reconnaissance missions, Hopkins links the daily operations of courageous fliers with decisions by presidents and prime ministers that decided the outcome of the Cold War.

Author: Robert S. Hopkins III
Publisher: Hikoki Publications
Published: 07/30/2016
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.80lbs
Size: 11.70h x 8.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781902109503

About the Author
Hopkins III, Robert: - Robert S. Hopkins, III, is a second generation US Air Force pilot flying 17 different variants of KC-, EC- and RC-135 during his Air Force career while his father flew B-47Es at Plattsburgh AFB, NY. In addition to multiple publications and appearances in aviation programs on the History Channel, the Smithsonian Channel, and the BBC, Hopkins is the author of Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More than a Tanker and Spyflights and Overflights: US Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance. He earned a PhD in US and Soviet History from the University of Virginia.

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