U-2 Vietnam war

Good pics Ikar

My uneducated guess is that they are probably early U-2C, without the dorsal fairing.  Others will know more.

Hello!

Great photos! The last one with that long nose looks like the newer U-2S.

And, did you see that "Ram Horn" variant? I tried to research it, but it looks like it's still secret even today:

Have a nice day

Paweł

Looking at my limited resources regarding the U-2, the long nose, no top fuselage fairing, and timeframe, IDs it as a U-2R.

The first shot with the reventment was taken in 1974.  For some reason it landed at our base we had no U2s based there.

The other two shots were taken in 1972.  We had three U2s stationed there and they would send one up in the morning and then in the afternoon.  One time I saw one take off when a flight of four local O1s in a box formation was flying by and it passed by them as it climbed out.  The O1s scattered so it must have been close.