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Summary and Key Points: At the 1985 Geneva Summit, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev issued a joint statement declaring that a...
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Summary and Key Points: At the 1985 Geneva Summit, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev issued a joint statement declaring that a...
France’s Charles de Gaulle (R91) is the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier outside the U.S. fleet — half the size of a Nimitz-class but built...
The B-52 Stratofortress pilots perfected low-level flying during the Cold War to operate under Soviet radar systems after the Soviets made significant enhancements to...
General George S. Patton’s Third Army of over 250,000 men pivoted 90 degrees in approximately 48 hours to attack the German flank at the...
The Soviet Union built the K-19 nuclear submarine to compete with U.S. nuclear submarine programs. Captain Nikolai Zateyev believed the K-19 was unfit for...
The B-58 Hustler was the U.S. Air Force’s first operational supersonic bomber, and made its initial flight on Nov. 11, 1956. It was designed...
On September 13, 1985, a U.S. Air Force F-15A Eagle executed a 3.8g vertical zoom climb over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated to Mach 1.22...
The U.S. Air Force has approved $508 million through 2031 to arm its KC-135 Stratotanker, C-5 Galaxy, KC-46 Pegasus, and C-17 Globemaster III aircraft...
In a sign that the B-1B bomber may not be done just yet from the Air Force’s inventory, the service just added one to...
Russia’s S-400 Triumf was supposed to be the U.S. Air Force killer. Moscow called it “the best long-range air defense system in the world.”...