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The Myasishchev M-17 "Mystic" (Ram-M) is a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft developed by OKB Myasishchev in the Soviet Union, similar to the Lockheed ER-2.
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It is a twin-boomed aircraft with a high aspect ratio wing, initially developed to shoot down US reconnaissance balloons.
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It is a twin-engined development of the Myasishchev M-17 Stratosphera with a higher maximum take-off weight.
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The Myasishchev M-55 (NATO reporting name: Mystic-B) is a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft developed by OKB Myasishchev in the Soviet Union, similar in mission to the Lockheed ER-2, but with a twin boom fuselage and tail surface design. It is a twin-engined development of the Myasishchev M-17 Stratosphera with a higher maximum take-off weight.
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The Myasishchev M-17 "Mystic" (Ram-M) high-altitude aircraft is the Soviet equivalent of the U-2. This twin-boomed aircraft with a high aspect ratio wing was initially developed to shoot down US reconnaissance balloons drifting over the USSR in the mid-1950s.
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Myasishchev M - 17 Stratosphera (NATO reporting name Mystic -A), an early version of the Myasishchev M -55 reconnaissance aircraft; Miles M . 17 Monarch, a 1936 British, light, touring aeroplane; M . 17 , a German World War…
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A reconnaissance version of the Chaika was developed as the M - 17 Stratosphera (NATO reporting name Mystic -A). The M - 17 featured a revised airframe that included straight tapered wings, a shortened fuselage…
Myasishchev M-17 “Mystic-A” by John Miller - HyperScale
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