Military Reconnaissance | National Air and Space Museum
Military reconnaissance is an operation to obtain information relating to the activities, resources, or military forces of a foreign nation or armed group. It uses balloons, aviation, and space technology and has played an important role in our history. The technologies used to carry out military reconnaissance are varied.
Reconnaissance | National Air and Space Museum
While reconnaissance often refers to the collection of information as it relates to military operations, the National Air and Space Museum also offers a large collection of objects and stories connected to aerial observation and observation from space—military or otherwise.
Early Spies in the Skies | National Air and Space Museum
2023年6月23日 · An aerial photograph from 1944 shows the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. (National Archives and Records Administration) After World War II, aerial reconnaissance became a key tool against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. For example, photoreconnaissance played a vital role in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
D-Day: Aerial Photography in Action - National Air and Space …
2019年6月2日 · While fighters escorted bombers ever further into Germany to destroy military, industrial, transportation, and communication targets, American and British aerial reconnaissance (recce) missions provided millions of photographs detailing every aspect of the forthcoming invasion sites and the German defenses along the beaches of northern France.
The Beginnings and Basics of Aerial Photography
2023年6月21日 · Balloon aerial photography continued to be an asset in military reconnaissance long after the Civil War. In 1956, more than 500 plastic reconnaissance balloons were launched for a program called Moby Dick. Under the guise of gathering meteorological information, the balloons were equipped with cameras to photograph Soviet territory.
Cold War Aviation - National Air and Space Museum
Aerial reconnaissance played an important role, and the Lockheed SR-71 was a a direct result of this struggle for supremacy. Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War resulted in a competition to create advanced technologies aimed at …
Bird’s Eye Viewfinder: 160 Years of Aerial Photography
2018年7月28日 · Straight vertical color aerial reconnaissance photograph showing a Soviet SA-2 Missile (V-75 Dvina, Guideline) surface to air missile (SAM) site in La Coloma, Cuba, November 10, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Taken by a Lockheed U-2, this is one of the first color aerial reconnaissance photographs.
The Technology of World War I | National Air and Space Museum
2017年4月6日 · Heavy artillery, machine guns, tanks, motorized transport vehicles, high explosives, chemical weapons, airplanes, field radios and telephones, aerial reconnaissance cameras, and rapidly advancing medical technology and science were just a few of the areas that reshaped twentieth century warfare.
Cuban Missile Crisis Reconnaissance Photo, 1962
Straight vertical color aerial reconnaissance photograph showing a Soviet SA-2 Missile (V-75 Dvina, Guideline) surface to air missile (SAM) site in La Coloma, Cuba, November 10, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Taken by a Lockheed U-2, this is one of the first color aerial reconnaissance photographs.
History | National Air and Space Museum
It is no wonder then, that the Smithsonian's aeronautical collection began well before 1976, when the National Air and Space Museum was constructed on the Mall in Washington, DC. 100 years before, in 1876, twenty beautiful kites were acquired from the Chinese Imperial Commission, seeding what would later become the largest collection of aviation and space artifacts in the world.