{"id":159943,"date":"2024-12-20T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-us-military-surveillance-aircraft-made-history\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T22:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T12:00:16","slug":"top-5-us-military-surveillance-aircraft-that-made-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=159943","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 US Military Surveillance Aircraft That Made History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may come as a surprise to many, but the origin of aircraft (or at least lighter-than-air aircraft) by the US military dates back to the Civil War of the 1860s &#8211; decades before the Wright Brothers became the first to &#8220;fly.&#8221;         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2027746\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/balloon-corpos-union-army-civil-war-air-force\/\" >The Union Army established the Balloon Corps<\/a><\/span> (which was quickly duplicated by the South). After heavier-than-air aircraft took to the skies, the Army quickly incorporated them into the military (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2035690\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/not-quite-wright-ongoing-battle-claim-1st-in-flight\/\" >including the Wright Flyer in 1909<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legacy of the US military developing some of the world&#8217;s most iconic and successful surveillance aircraft looks set to continue into the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,408,12466,3298,1626,6427,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-history","category-lockheed-u-2","category-spy-plane","category-sr-71","category-sr-72","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159944,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159943\/revisions\/159944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}