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that famous, thousand year old honey trap that never grows old...

BA=BC=R ∠ABC=90 ∘ AC = √2R ( √2R)² ) = ( 2√3 + √5)² + (2√3 - √5)² = 34 R² = 17 → x =2R = 2√17

6-2√5 ≈ 1.528 cm

The beer stein from the CIA’s museum collection, commemorating the “Turkey Trotters” of Detachment B at Incirlik, is presented as a lighthearted memento of camaraderie. Yet the most famous pilot associated with that unit, Francis Gary Powers, flew a mission on 1 May 1960 that stands as one of the clearest demonstrations of the collapse of American technological overconfidence. The long-held assumption that the U-2 was effectively invulnerable simply by virtue of its altitude was shattered that day near Sverdlovsk. Powers’s aircraft had been ferried from Incirlik to Peshawar, Pakistan. From there it was to traverse the full breadth of the Soviet Union before landing in Norway. South of Sverdlovsk, in the vicinity of Kosulino, while cruising at approximately 70,500 feet , the U-2 was engaged by Soviet S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missiles. Multiple batteries were activated; contemporary accounts and later analyses indicate that between eight and fourteen missiles were launched. None scored a direct hit. However, one missile, detonating near the edge of its effective range and under difficult radar-tracking conditions, produced a shock wave that tore apart the fragile airframe of the U-2. The U-2’s supposed invulnerability was not merely a technical miscalculation. It reflected a broader failure of intelligence to accurately assess the limits of its own capabilities. President Eisenhower subsequently banned further overflights of the Soviet Union, effectively ending the era of deep manned penetration missions. The “Turkey Trotters” stein at Incirlik remains, in this light, less a simple keepsake than a nostalgic object that quietly elides the episode in which the assumptions underlying those operations were decisively disproven.

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