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U-2's are capable of in air refueling so to monitor south central USSR it was flown out of various middle eastern, central asian, and eastern european countries. For that matter it still is so that it can have a long loiter time and make a large number of passes. Actual in practice most of the time at least in my experiance the U-2 is over its mission area not long after it reaches altitude, of course in most deployed area's it is climbing at a very high rate, crazed glider with a jet engine.
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