{"id":54716,"date":"2014-08-25T07:25:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T11:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54716"},"modified":"2014-08-24T08:12:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:12:54","slug":"usaf-overflights-of-russia-the-periphery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54716","title":{"rendered":"Cold War Overflights of Russia &#8211; the Peripheral Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54715\">My article the other day<\/a> provided a pointer to information concerning US deep penetration overflights of the Soviet Union between 1950 and 1956 &#8211; <em>before<\/em> the U2 was flying.\u00a0 Needless to day, these weren&#8217;t the only overflights of Soviet territory conducted by US aircraft during the &#8220;Cold War&#8221;.\u00a0 Nor were they the only ones during which shots were exchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Far more numerous were peripheral missions &#8211; those that flew along the Soviet Union&#8217;s land or maritime borders.\u00a0 I also found an article that gives a fairly good (if perhaps not fully comprehensive) rundown of this far more numerous type of Cold War Soviet overflight mission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingproud.us\/Military\/Military\/AirborneRecce.html\">You can find that article here<\/a>.\u00a0 It also seems to be of good quality, and I&#8217;d assess it as being reliable as well.\u00a0 Also highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My article the other day provided a pointer to information concerning US deep penetration overflights of &hellip; <a title=\"Cold War Overflights of Russia &#8211; the Peripheral Missions\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54716\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cold War Overflights of Russia &#8211; the Peripheral Missions<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,10,84,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-historical","category-military-issues","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}