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Growing Number of Businesses Shun Myanmar Military-Linked Goods, Services Anti-coup protesters hold a placard reading “Don’t buy goods produced by the military” to show their stand against the military regime in Yangon. / Don’t Buy it / Facebook 8.1k By Nan Lwin 25 February 2021 YANGON—More and more businesses in major cities are joining “social punishment” campaigns launched by young anti-coup protesters to bring down Myanmar’s military regime leaders, including boycotts of military-linked products and calls for shops to refuse to sell food and other goods to the security f...

Even against the famous SR-71 Blackbird, there was no clear winner. A worthy successor to the iconic U-2 spy plane, the Lockheed A-12’s service life was nonetheless cut short by technological progress and a shifting Cold War political climate. By the early 1960s, it became clear to Washington that the latest Soviet air defense systems can credibly threaten the U-2 spy plane. The starkest illustration yet came in 1960, when a Soviet S-75 Dvina battery shot down a US U-2 aircraft. Another U-2 was successfully knocked down several years later during the Cuban Missile Crisis. With the CIA’s p...

How the A-12 Spy Plane Helped Avert War Against North Korea The planes were able to show that, despite North Korean provocations, they were not mobilizing for a full war. Key point: The USS Pueblo incident nearly caused a Second Korean War. Here is how the CIA spied out North Korea to see if Pyongyang really was preparing for another fight. On October 30, 1967, a CIA spy-plane soared eighty-four thousand feet over Hanoi in northern Vietnam, traveling faster than a rifle bullet at over three times the speed of sound. A high-resolution camera in the angular black jet’s belly recorded over a ...

This spy plane played a key role in many Cold War episodes. Key point: The A-12 helped fill a missing capability as Soviet air defenses were able to threatend the U-2. Here is how the CIA used the A-12. But the Blackbird’s was actually an enlarged evolution of the Lockheed A-12, designed for service with the Central Intelligence Agency. The single-seat A-12 could fly slightly faster and higher, but it was doomed to be replaced by its heavier Air Force spinoff. By the late 1950s, aviation engineers knew that new Soviet surface-to-air missiles could effectively threaten high-altitude U-2 spy...

SR-71 Blackbird, I am Your Father: Meet the Lockheed A-12 The CIA’s twelve ultra-fast A-12 jets were doomed to a brief operational career after the first flight in 1962. Here's What You Need To Remember: Ultimately, the A-12 was done in by a far more ancient enemy than the Soviet Union: budget cuts. Analysis of Week’s photos located the USS Pueblo near Wonsan anchored next to two patrol boats—and also revealed that Pyongyang had not mobilized its troops for war. This led Johnson to rule out plans for a preemptive or punitive strike in favor of diplomatic measures which eventually saw t...