USAF Scraps Plans To Retire U-2

May 23, 2017
Credit: USAF
THE PENTAGON—The U.S. Air Force will keep Lockheed Martin’s U-2 reconnaissance aircraft around for the foreseeable future, scrapping plans to sunset the 60-year-old platform in 2019. The news that the Dragon Lady will continue patrolling the skies indefinitely, revealed May 23 in President Donald...

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