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The Soviet Union launched Venera 13 and Venera 14 in late 1981 with the objective of surviving long enough on the surface of Venus...
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The Soviet Union launched Venera 13 and Venera 14 in late 1981 with the objective of surviving long enough on the surface of Venus...
Behind its Cold War neutrality, Sweden was quietly preparing to go nuclear. Saab designed the Saab 36 "Vargen," a Mach 2, delta-wing bomber built...
Before the SR-71 Blackbird ever flew, a Soviet aviation designer named Pavel Tsybin was already trying to build a spy plane to beat it...
The M60A3 was the final evolution of America's M60 Patton — not a new tank, but a 1950s design upgraded so thoroughly that its...
A Navy F-4 Phantom crew was vectored to get a radar lock on the SR-71 Blackbird as it returned from a run near China....
Ten days before Desert Storm proved stealth worked, Dick Cheney canceled the Navy's stealth bomber. The bill: a carrier air wing with half its...
Summary and Key Points: More than 70 years after it sank, an American-built P-39 Airacobra was raised from an Arctic lake near Murmansk —...
Summary and Key Points: The Tsar Bomba is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated: a 50-megaton blast over the Arctic that outstripped every...
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...
A U.S. Air Force B-52G Stratofortress strategic bomber crashed near Goldsboro, North Carolina, in 1961 — dropping 2 Mark 39 Mod Two hydrogen bombs...