It feels like 1960 all over again. U.S. European Command chief Gen. Philip Breedlove is asking the Pentagon to send U-2 spy planes to Europe to provide additional intelligence on the Russian buildup there. Breedlove says the high-flying surveillance plane, first introduced in 1957, is needed alongside RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft to augment intelligence capabilities on the continent. While there's no suggestion that Washington plans to make U-2 flights over Russian territory, the Twitter account of Russia's embassy in Canada simply couldn't resist referencing the Francis Gary Powers incident, in which Soviet air defenses shot down a CIA U-2 flying over Yekaterinburg.
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