Air Force and defense contractor Lockheed Martin chose an ultra-remote site in the Mojave Desert of southern Nevada, about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, to begin testing and developing the newest, most advanced aircraft in the world at the time.įor decades, the Nevada Test and Training Range, better known as Area 51, didn’t appear on any public map, and the U.S.
They also try out new weapons systems on aircraft to test their effectiveness against a bona fide Russian-built target.In 1955, the Central Intelligence Agency, U.S.
"The Americans practice air to air combat with Russian aircraft to give them an advantage in combat. "Initially, during the mission, the aircraft were just outside of Area 51 airspace. They were literally specks in the sky, but of course that's the reason that no-one has photographed them before. "The planes were operating above 20,000 feet, and a couple of miles east of me, so the distance between me and the planes was at least six miles. 'After they finished their mission they flew into Groom Lake's highly restricted airspace. He said: “This aircraft was anonymous and unidentifiable, apart from the Soviet style camouflage it wore,' he said. Phil, 42, from Hampshire, thinks he has captured the first ever images of such an encounter proving that the US has secretly procured a single-seater Sukhoi Su-27P – which is rumoured to have been flying from Area 51 for the last two decades.
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