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Originally Posted by gunnut
Officially, the SR-71 never overflew Soviet air space.
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It overflew other places, I read (there's an article on an SR-71 encounter with MiG-25s in this month's
Air International).
The U-2 flights over the USSR were stopped after Gary Powers. They did flights over Cuba (CORONA wasn't available) and had one shot down, which nearly started World War Three.