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China became Iran's alternative arms supplier during the Iran-Iraq War, when Western sources closed after the hostage crisis. It sold tanks, artillery, aircraft and...
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China became Iran's alternative arms supplier during the Iran-Iraq War, when Western sources closed after the hostage crisis. It sold tanks, artillery, aircraft and...
Iran's Shahab-1 came from the Scud-B and reached 300km. The Khorramshahr, derived from North Korea's Musudan, reaches 2,000km — a 6.7-fold increase in reach.
The physical realities of life at sea—the rigorous conditions and exposure to the elements—mean that these vessels have finite shelf lives. The Ticonderoga-class was...
The F-22 Raptor entered operational service in 2005, designed to destroy advanced Soviet fighters beyond visual range. It went nearly eighteen years without an...
Earth takes 365 days to orbit the Sun and Mars takes about 687, so the two planets line up for an efficient transfer only...
After four years mapping Venus, NASA flew Magellan into the planet it had charted. Controllers lost radio contact on 12 October 1994 on orbit...
Rather than build a new spacecraft, ESA reused the Mars Express bus and spare scientific instruments left over from Mars Express and Rosetta. Venus...
Most people associate Apollo exclusively with the Moon, which makes sense, given that Apollo only ever went there. But after the lunar landing, NASA...
Surface pressure on Venus runs about ninety times Earth's, equivalent to diving three thousand feet into the ocean, at an average surface temperature of...
Supporting the landings on Tinian in 1944, USS Colorado was struck 22 times by Japanese shore batteries. Forty-three of her crew were killed and...