US Spy Plane Pilot's Account Indicates Soviet Russia Tested A 'Dome Of Light' Superweapon
The exotic capability may have been a countermeasure intended to blind American early warning satellites from detecting a first strike launch.
By Tyler RogowayFebruary 6, 2019
Veteran Air Force pilot Robert Hopkins, who is also the author of one of my favorite reference books, The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than a Tanker, flew RC-135S Cobra Ball missile tracking planes during the twilight of the Cold War. Cobra Ball was one of America's most important intelligence-gathering assets as it collected high-fidelity data on adversary ballistic missile tests. The flights were critical to U.S. national security with many missions originating out of the highly remote and windswept Shemya Air Force Base in the Aleutian Island chain and aimed at spying on Russian ballistic missile test launches.
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