NOT UFO | How This American Spy Plane Drove the USSR Crazy

NOT UFO | How This American Spy Plane Drove the USSR Crazy
Spy planes might be the reason many people believe UFOs exist. From Space-bordering altitudes to designs fit for a sci-fi movie, these aircraft may look alien from a distance.
Spy planes exist so militaries wouldn’t have to be moving blindly. And although most modern aircraft are fitted with stealth tech and some level of intelligence-gathering capabilities, spy planes remain the original aircraft designed for these purposes.
From the U-2 spy plane of the Cold War era to a purely experimental Star-Trek-inspired aircraft from the '90s, here are 5 intriguing spy planes that have shaped modern aviation.
00:44 U-2
02:50 A-12
04:25 MIG-21
05:28 F-117
07:27 YF-118G
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[@andreasleonardo6793]

Excellent specific channel( Front cost)and amazing video about strange designs of spy planes..especially YF-118G ( Prayer birds) and this super capability drone (X-45A VCAV)...yes I think YF-118G going to production .

[@johnsullivan5014]

Fantastic photography and beautifully done ✅

[@JennTheWriter]

Fascinating! Thanks for the video!

[@stevegeorge5322]

Bravo! Well Done! More please....

[@michaelwhittman1956]

U2 was tracked by Soviet radar almost as soon as it approached the USSR on it's first flight. Hardly unnoticed.

[@dakmycat3688]

Even shot down. I seen the movie🤣😂

[@alphateam3326]

@@dakmycat3688 it took a few years before it was shot down

[@jasonmatson7861]

Yeah it initially flew too high for them to shoot down. Then one day......

[@Amazon820]

LMAO the Russian Cosmospheres will send it back to Earth in 1000 pieces

[@Pavel_Poluian]

There is an interesting design of aircraft, but they rarely talk about it, because this thing is secret. The topic of pulsed plasma thrusters has been developed since the early 60s (see PPT - Pulsed plasma thruster) - they are usually designed for spacecraft. But we will talk about a little-known design - these are plasma propulsion panels for aircraft, where the same Pulsed plasma thruster, but reduced to the size of a pencil and stacked in the form of cells in the panel. The design resembles a conventional plasma TV screen, where there are also discharge cells that activate the glow of pixels on the screen. And plasma propulsion panels have long discharge cells, the arrester has a railgun architecture (just rail contacts or coaxial), and the ionized discharge air is accelerated there by the Lorentz force to enormous speeds - a kind of ramjet engine is obtained. Just imagine! - tens of thousands of small ramjet engines assembled in a panel and firing plasma synchronously with a huge frequency (hundreds of kilohertz). Thus, plasma propulsion panels create lift by pulsed emission of plasma jets from railgun cells. There are tens of thousands of cells in the panel, they shoot at a frequency of hundreds of kilohertz, a huge pulse is obtained, and the plasma swirls the air into toroidal rings - the aircraft is held on this air cushion. Horizontal acceleration is created by the same plasma panels on the sides of the device (they glow, from the side they look like "portholes"). Such devices like "triangle" or "disk" have been observed for a long time, they are mistaken for alien ones - but these are terrestrial devices. They are classified and used for espionage and secret actions. Pulsed electromagnetic technology generates microwave radiation, therefore it is harmful to health. They rarely fly - only military missions. Therefore, they are not suitable for a citizen. This maintained the secrecy. Now they are already declassifying - many people know about this secret technique. When declassified, they will be used for cargo airships. But there is a danger that they are now going to be adapted to deliver small nuclear charges to decision-making centers - such means of delivery are not specified anywhere, are not conventional. This lowers the threshold for starting a war. It would be necessary to declassify them as soon as possible. That's why I'm writing about it. However, I have written before - starting with the book "The Elimination of UFOs" and many articles. There are also videos on my KZbin channel - "Declassified UFO" and "UFO Anatomy".

[@HomeImProveMentHow]

Our planes are awesome awesome and this last plane yes definitely cutting edge

[@leteciaramirez6085]

So amazing to the man in the street. Excellent. I'm 80 and my father was a pilot on the bommer planes in the Tim of AL almein He would hav loved yr videos. God bless you all

[@williamcrislerjr9699]

That was the coolest type plane the US produced and the SR 71

[@rickpontificates3406]

FUN FACT: the F-117, based out of Edwards AFB, has practiced target locking onto cars on the 14 freeway

[@-hiro-5995]

This thing looks like it’s straight from a movie. Insane

[@lilfeatha101]

Much respect

[@edisuwardi285]

Amazing.....

[@jasonrussell9906]

I think the "Bird of Prey" would be an amazing aircraft, possibly be used for spy missions or if a slightly more powerful engine it could be used like the F-22/F-35 fighter jets... It's amazing tht it doesn't have the vertical tail like all other planes/jets, even the F-117/F-22/F-35s at the least have some kinda flaps, not sure if that's for stability or maneuverability... If the Bird of Prey can do stuff like that already then awesome if not then maybe try it out & see how it handles then cuz maybe those flaps aren't needed which wld be less weight & less radar surface to be seen

[@davidgardner863]

The F-117 doesn’t have flaps, only inboard and outboard ailerons.

[@danigreatprogresslana570]

Nice

[@jeffhoward553]

Back in early 90s I worked second shift, at home and in the backyard, I seen a plane that was quite and I would have thought it to be UFO ( I don’t believe in ) then the plane went to a 90 Degree straight up, so I got to see the pilot by the dash light of the plane, the questions are, when they let us know about theses planes, what took there places of top secrecy planes ???

[@eugeneminton2613]

might sound dumb but i actually had an idea for creating a stealth airship. that would allow the radar signals to pass into it but not out of it... and the skin was made up of a woven mesh that could both heat or cool segments to blend in with the airspace it occupied... as well as project colors on its skin like a cuttlefish... it wouldn't be fast but it would have the ability to loiter and transmit data where it was needed to be like an outpost... in my head i even thought about miniaturizing it to get small payloads in and out of places, undetected. but as i said it would be slow... when i thought it up i was thinking about taking it to area 51 and parking it on their field, to wait and see how long it took their amonia sensors to detect me :D

[@bencoss7003]

Yep words can't take all the credit for the u2 spy plane, it was a design or a lot of it a design from a English aircraft that was a high flyer the Canterbury.

[@jbx.7995]

They say that the. Plane's are retired... Bird of pray is flying with another purpose. Thanks 4 sharing great stuff.

[@dunruden9720]

You might want to check your spelling. If you prey in a church instead of praying, the results might be embarrassing for you!

[@jbx.7995]

@@dunruden9720 listen 🎶 I did say pray. As in prayer. Because some do pray that they might see one. Fool. Really lol.really...

[@michaelcarniel9086]

Yes, bird of prey should go into production. I want one!

[@lasamedee3992]

Amazing bird

[@raptorsean1464]

I'll take 2, please.🤣

[@virtualmoyda7221]

The things I've seen in the sky only make sense of being man made after reading the Navy patent on a plasma /piezoelectric propulsion system. As as an aluminum tig welder by trade I can personally attest to the antigravity properties of piezoelectric materials like aluminum and how frequency/vibration enhance these effects. Sometimes when welding aluminum on a high enough frequency and current the material begins to shake then float. Resort of similar to the hutchensons effect.

[@virtualmoyda7221]

No standard propulsion engine which does not alter space time would be capable of what I've seen. Even in 5th grade going into 6th I knew what I saw went against the laws of inertia.

[@ioanbota9397]

I like this strong fighter in the photo

[@drdreddmanofmystery9482]

They should definitely make an updated version of the "Bird of Prey." It's too cool looking not to try and make it work.

[@robertgordon8290]

Should put it in production

[@raphaelandrews3617]

Anyone who has seen a UAP will tell you 1) they do not look like aircraft and 2) the do "fly" like aircraft, they will suddenly move a great speeds and extreme angles. Claiming the UAP is just a false flag that has already been shown..

[@NeoTechni]

U-2? So that's how they got their song on every iPod!

[@kregoryklements6918]

I’m not even gna watch this. . But I saw a b2 flying in Palmdale last year it was awesome.

[@dainiuskaranauskas6738]

If not for KZbin channel in military I wouldn't any idea that United State Of America try stay ahead in every single time. But the most owesome plane A12/SR-71 blackbird plane

[@ioanbota9397]

Realy I like this fighter jet

[@ryanchristopherson374]

The F-117 has never been used as a spy platform. It is a stealth/strategic light bomber. Lots of inaccurate statements in this clip, unfortunately.

[@stateofdecay2210]

yeah although it looks extremely cool and a bit alien _ish but you are right 👍

[@bozorgone]

SR-71 continued past 79s and 80s and flying everywhere

[@markwalmsley9868]

You should check out the new drones. They look like they are from Star Wars and that’s the ones we know about I wonder what they have hidden from us 😱

[@pmay222]

oh they have them alright.... the other year here in the uk early evening in winter it was dark... we saw 2 white dots coming across the sky towards london..incredibly fast like nothing i have ever seen at an airshow... they kinda slowed... then accellerated away at unbelievable speed.. slightly triangulated.. id guess they were drones with a pulse engine perhaps..? i couldnt imagine anything accellerating that fast with a human on board... no shockwave from breaking sound barrier no sound.... but amazing speed

[@bobl78]

Aurora

[@user-ew6vo6nv5j]

نعم مصر الاولى رئيس العالم الامبراطورية مصر العظمى.

[@Indoor_Man]

I'm not sure you got the MIG range right. 400 miles sounds pretty short for a reconnaissance aircraft.

[@vesetopuro2576]

Sir m a solder take

[@gteaz]

Fake main stream channel that's full of lies instead of facts.

[@dunruden9720]

@@vesetopuro2576 Oh, absolutely!!

[@archibaldevans2251]

Factoid: Lockheed became Lockheed Martin in 1995 after merging with Martin Marietta. The U2 and A12/M21/YF12/Sr71 Black-Birds were built prior to the merger so technically built by Lockheed not Lockheed Martin. ‘Both God and the Devil are in the details...’ as my father would say who went to work for Martin Marietta in 1960 finishing the decade at Lockheed though retiring before the Lockheed Martin merger...

[@mariusdelport9852]

Ad the YF23 in the works

[@Fightback2023]

Satellite nowadays can see more clear than spy plane.

[@JohnWick-qr4yc]

It’s a great thing America has the best satellites and the best intelligence then

[@larrybooth1771]

It's what we don't know that always surprises me.

[@williamltaylor3739]

Have never seen a UFO but knew an Air Force Captain and Doctor who said he and his wife stopped the car one day whan they saw a group of strange aircraft fly over. He is an intelligent man and said he had NEVER seen any aircraft that looked like the ones he saw fly over. He and wife got good looks at them!

[@robertgyenes6510]

We've seen many times. Also all the governments said. They're in contact and contract for so many years

[@zeke2566]

You are a -not lier

[@captglenn100]

UFO, yes. Spacecraft from another planet, not likely.

[@billygibson2613]

The World is yours humans very special cleaner fuels healthy future generations

[@robertgordon8290]

Of course,

[@williamcrislerjr9699]

Always a glitch in the typing SR 71

[@roy.esummersjr7688]

Design something similar to what's on Battlestar Galactica

[@theseventhjournal7957]

The u2 is the only plane who has mission flexibility

[@jbizzle1966]

Mig-21 is not a spy plane. Its a fighter.

[@keithbell6104]

To compare the mig 21 to the SR71 is like comparing a moped to a Ferrari

[@Quark.Lepton]

It’s also a _reconnaissance_ aircraft.

[@SamG-py7ej]

@@Quark.Lepton so is the tornado, it still doesn't make it an all out spy plane

[@Quark.Lepton]

@@SamG-py7ej *Reconnaissance* is spying, Dingus. Nobody said _”all out”_

[@SamG-py7ej]

@@Quark.Lepton surveillance and reconnaissance are two different things, like strategic and tactical, I'd post a link but yt auto deletes, look it up for yourself and you'll realise your wrong "dingus" 😉

[@steveguyett384]

We need a cooking device

[@williamcollins4082]

And I thought you may touch on something a little more modern . Not even a blind hint to the Nazi Saucers or External Combustion or The Electronic Anti Gravity or Even those weird floating feather craft ... Where's the really weird futuristic stuff ???

[@cdp200442]

Would love to know what we actually have in development..I’m sure we are way off of what is actually in their test stage . I do know we’re 50 years ahead of what we think is in development.

[@victorgiacobbe4453]

Ufo technology is in the thousands of years ahead of anything on earth.

[@user-dy8xt8or2u]

ทำได้สวยมากๆ

[@kermitfisk187]

Bird of prey would be beautiful in the sky

[@j.j.anthony1200]

The Canberra should be here coz thats where the idea of the U2 wing came from, to be able to fly higher. In fact when the U2 was having problems, the US asked the RAF to fly Canberra missions over Russia again until the U2 problems were ironed out.

[@michaelbluestein1726]

Pretty darn awesome!! Makes an ordinary guy like myself wonder in awe what's under cover in 2021

[@davidrobertson5700]

Great British engineering the Canberra

[@johnnyg7582]

@ART-OGOL ⁰ Q

[@What_a_twist]

"What a twist"

[@whemadre]

What use is a “spy plane” ( mig21) with a range of 410 miles. Any plane could be a spy plane but this is a fighter plane.

[@curiouscampbell5447]

This is just the stuff they let us know about which is probably obsolete at this point..it's just gets better .

[@ooioonlye2128]

Did PRC told you they are shocked?? 😂😂😂😂😂

[@josephrosas5980]

Yes

[@rodbutler8069]

Where is the TR3B??

[@dabulls1g]

Sr72, b21, yf23, TR3B…holy shit.

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

3:04 Ummmm, I'm sorry to tell you but the A-12 is NOT a Hypersonic aircraft. To be a Hypersonic Aircraft it must be able to exceed Mach 5 so at Mach 3, it's only a Supersonic Aircraft...

[@j.j.anthony1200]

If only that picture was real. 👌

[@jeromejohnson6566]

You can tell the pict is photo shop

[@jeromejohnson6566]

Yeah you can tell the picture is photo

[@j.j.anthony1200]

@@jeromejohnson6566 😂

[@j.j.anthony1200]

@@jeromejohnson6566 so true 👍

[@enisgolis7142]

LOVE USA 💪🙏

[@strikeforcealpha9343]

I've seen one Aurora, an absolute beast.

[@andrewenglish3810]

The F-117 isn't being used anymore because of the one that was reported as being shot down over Bosnia during that war. It's said that Russia has anti-stealth surface to air missles which took ou the one reported F-117.

[@zaiks0105]

I don't think that's the case. F-117 had deficiencies but the biggest culprit at that time was flying too low

[@noriccrome6251]

True. The Bosnia loss was when the Bosnia air defense fired dozens of missiles into the air hoping to hit one of MANY F-117 jets. One of the missiles got lucky and hit one the planes. You all think there was only one jet in the air? Nealy 60 of the F-117 flew around Bagdad for hours waiting to get orders to make their bombing runs UNDETECTED. For 8 years the F-117 was UNKNOWN and flew successful missions INTO Russia and was believed to be UFO's. When Russia found out they were US bombers. Russia RETREATED from European countries. This action by Russia WAS an omission that they were vulnerable to stealth and are now applying stealth to their jets. Again, Russia's is trying to CATCH UP to the USA.

[@bencoss7003]

When the f-117 or the f-35 or the F-22 opens up their internal missile Bay, it disturbs everything and they can be seen on radar much easier, when they open up that internal missile Bay, they go from having a signature the size of a sparrow, to being lit up like a Christmas tree! And that's what happened to the f-117 over Bosnia he had his internal missile Bay open and he was lit up, that is their most vulnerable place and point, all three of them aircraft have not much signature whatsoever when they're internal bays are closed, but when they are opened up that changes the whole ball game, Bosnia didn't do anything but proved what they already knew.

[@noriccrome6251]

@@bencoss7003 Gee, then stealth really doesn't work. Then why is Russia, China, Britain, and other jet building counties going all out to adapt stealth to their jets??? Why dummy. WHY???

[@andonxhumba5028]

Yes rhe F 117 was shoot down by S 125 Nova yugoslavian 1976 made missile. Indeed was shown by Russian war ship that was in Adritic sea . 1993 washington hires 2 engineers from Russia over they stealth project . Russian start laughing when thay saw the F 117 full of corners to dide signal. They said that in USSR they use electronics to do that. You can check the documentary here on you tube . Also USSR shoot down an U2 which was supposed not to be seen by them

[@andymurday4538]

What about the SR71... That plane should still be in service as it is a more advanced version of the U2!!!

[@williamcrislerjr9699]

F117 looked like a toy

[@tanpengjoo7205]

MADE IN U S A ALWAYS POWERFUL

[@boromitrovic8000]

Yugoslavia

[@alliancepeoplegroupyoutube1048]

Bro what’s with the front covers and stuff?

[@Amy40Puerto]

Is the mig 21 not a jet fighter?

[@bencoss7003]

No man I think it should stay where it's at , we already got all the information from it that was needed build a better one than what it i loo

[@robertkling8557]

Not only was it tracked but it was shot down

[@williamcrislerjr9699]

No - but the TR3B should

[@starshipenterprise5861]

that must be ufo reverse technology

[@kingmichael257]

Hope none of the planes use BA jet engine. Too much defects

[@tomanyszilagyi8176]

Lockheed became Lockheed-Martin in 1995 - not when they designed the U2 or SR-71

[@bencoss7003]

Officially in the books the y-12 was hitting mach 2.8., you know you don't have to do much research I'll just do is Google these things to get it right.

[@AndreCroy]

I want to know what the black triangle that hung over my house more than 30 years ago was and why I do not remember anything after seeing it for an unknown amount of time. And yes, I have had military personal inform me that I am on multiple watch lists. WTF is that about as I am a "normal" person, with a family; who does not go out of my way to do anything to harm anyone...

[@davidgardner863]

The U2 was built by Lockheed, not Lockheed Martin. They didn’t merge until 1995.

[@williamcrislerjr9699]

But The A 12 went faster than than the SR72

[@joelesher7106]

No.....ufo's DO exist!

[@davidjonah7402]

That thing couldn’t win a dogfight if its life depended on it it’s a bomber it’s not a fighter but the pilots weren’t happy flying a bomber so they called it fighter it was a damn good bomber and it’s ability to beat radar was fantastic at the time but it wouldn’t ever be in a dogfight it didn’t have any missiles it didn’t have any guns it had bombs from the thickness of that day in the shelves it couldn’t have been carrying that many bombs but by that time all I needed was one or two dropped precisely where it was wanted and needed which probably enough

[@julianarodriguez3635]

This is a alien aircraft from area 51

[@bencoss7003]

The bird of prey is what it is a test bed two little for anything else maybe a convert it to a UAV

[@Hatrious]

How is a MiG-21 a spy plane or a F117? If so, wheres the B2? xD

[@privateerburrows]

Bird of Pray should definitely go into production, and have cloaking ... ;-)

[@FrontCost]

I wish!

[@tommyrq180]

Lots of this history is flat wrong. Too many to list. But U-2 was designed to stay above fighter altitude, not evade radar. Thus the A-12 development project to both minimize RCS and go fast. Read “From RAINBOW to GUSTO” or my original research and declassifications…you can find my research. Don’t believe what you hear about counter-stealth. I hope other countries believe they can detect it adequately. Good for them…

[@DavidWoods-rk8st]

The Dr 71 was the best now they need telluric current ha ha ha ha ha

[@dalehardin2642]

Nothing appears that is not intended to appear.

[@billlohrke2610]

Not up to date. Several plans are missing

[@PastorPeewee20]

Always curious how China got the U2 as well other countries how they get our planes n technology

[@brucesmith4245]

It wasnt mainland China that had them, it was Taiwan.

[@rogermoroney9868]

How did Gary Powers plane get shot down in 60s?

[@dunruden9720]

SAM

[@caclech]

That intro didn't age well

[@physicsbystanprisajny6284]

ufo = a warp drive? = a warp machina?

[@davidpacheco8935]

...... yeah ..... 😆 , we know ! .......

[@hollywood41601]

Interesting factoid: The U2 Spy Plane was around before the famous “Me2” movement 😂

[@crissoto3759]

Comparing one of those planes with a UFO is like Comparing a little mouse with a tiger a UFO is thousands of years ahead of us in technology they travel faster then the speed of light in space

[@bencoss7003]

So what are you basing that on? There is not been yet today proof positive 100% that there is UFOs, also yet to this day since there's no proof positive 100%, one hasn't been captured to test to see what limits are, let alone get past the realm of theory, so without proof of any sort how can you possibly back that statement up?

[@hunter_abc_3235]

Have you not seen the unclassified video on ufo that the government released. You really think we got this far without any help there's hundreds of videos and ancient sights with structures and techniques that not even with the tools we have today could be done yet it was done thousands of years ago.

[@williamwhitney5266]

Just cause you have not seen one doesn't mean there not out there

[@Djkommode]

@@williamwhitney5266 which doesn’t mean there is one either. Ask big foot.

[@williamwhitney5266]

@@Djkommode More of a Chance of UFOs/Aliens then of Bigfoot I never believed in Bigfoot either The Universe is a Vast Unknown Dark Forest

[@zacclark9073]

Ufos are real

[@michellepopkov940]

Some serious inaccuracies in this clip. So much is irrelevant to the reconnaissance mission

[@larryc1616]

USSR shot down U2, but couldn't shoot down the SR-71, F-117 nor Aurora

[@audioelitist3677]

UFOs are fun because they're both flying and unidentified. Flying... not so impressive. Unidentified.... again... not all that great. Unidentified AND flying... now we're talking. Cool factor 11. Great way to gather friends. "Say, Hank. I'm sittin here in my back yard lookin at something flyin." "You know what it is?" "Nope" "On my way" "bring beer and ammo" "already on it"

[@adifiat9080]

It s about us or ussr?

[@abx42]

The bird-of-prey was well ahead of its time. I would love to see what it would be capable of and besides most 5th and 6th generations of Fighters look like alien craft anyway lol.