A U.S. spy plane is flying high over the Middle East, and analysts say the timing could not be more critical. The RC-135V Rivet Joint, a signals intelligence aircraft nicknamed OLIVE48, just departed ...

A Royal Air Force (RAF) electronic surveillance aircraft, the RC-135W Rivet Joint, conducted a patrol over Russian territory ...

A Royal Air Force RC-135W Rivet Joint electronic surveillance aircraft has conducted a patrol orbiting the Russian territory ...

Reconnaissance aircraft snoop around potentially hostile nations (or their ships) gathering photographic and electronic intelligence. Their crews would rather they are not referred to as ‘spy planes’ ...