What Russian Radar Operators Said When U-2 Appeared at 70,000 Feet Over Moscow.

Описание: On May 1, 1960, Soviet radar operators tracked an impossible target flying at 70,000 feet over the heart of the Soviet Union. This is the complete story of the U-2 shootdown that changed the Cold War forever. Follow the dramatic events of that fateful morning as Soviet air defense scrambled fighters that could never reach high enough, ordered a pilot to ram the intruder in a suicide mission, and finally launched SA-2 missiles that brought down CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers over Sverdlovsk. Discover the chaos that unfolded as Soviet missile batteries fired eight missiles in forty minutes, tragically killing one of their own pilots in a friendly fire incident that remained hidden for thirty years. Learn how Premier Khrushchev set a masterful trap for President Eisenhower, exposing American lies about a weather research plane and collapsing the Paris Summit just two weeks later. This documentary reveals the Soviet perspective using declassified records and eyewitness accounts, including the desperate radio transmissions between commanders, the fabricated cover story that Soviet generals told Khrushchev, and the truth about what really happened in the skies above the Ural Mountains that May Day morning.

PRIMARY SOURCES:
CIA Declassified Records - Studies in Intelligence
https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/stu...
National Security Archive - George Washington University - Electronic Briefing Book No. 434
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-bo...
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - Lockheed U-2C Collection
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection...
U.S. Department of State - Office of the Historian - Foreign Relations of the United States 1958-60 Volume X
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS:
American Heritage Magazine - "The Day We Shot Down the U-2" by Sergei Khrushchev (September 2000)
https://www.americanheritage.com/day-...
SPECIALIST RESEARCH:
Dragon Lady History - Chris Pocock U-2 Research
https://dragonladyhistory.com/2020/05...
This Day in Aviation - Article 360 Serial 56-6693
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag...
Air and Space Forces Magazine - U-2 Program History
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/art...
Roadrunners Internationale - CIA U-2 Pilot Archives
https://roadrunnersinternationale.com...
MILITARY TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
Smithsonian Institution - U-2C Aircraft Specifications
https://www.si.edu/object/lockheed-u-...