Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
In November 1988 the Soviet Union flew its own space shuttle. Buran reached orbit, circled the Earth twice, and landed itself completely on autopilot,...
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In November 1988 the Soviet Union flew its own space shuttle. Buran reached orbit, circled the Earth twice, and landed itself completely on autopilot,...
"Venus is a Russian planet." That is what the head of Russia's space agency declared in 2020, and the West largely laughed it off....
Germany still must address a readiness issue: large portions of the army are not considered fully combat-ready, with some readiness estimates for land forces...
The first living creature ever to orbit the Earth was a frightened Moscow stray named Laika, sent into space in 1957 inside a craft...
After almost 30 years in the shipyard, Russia's nuclear battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov, the most heavily armed surface warship in the world, has finally returned...
The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
In October 1967 the Soviet Union announced that Venera 4 had landed on Venus. It hadn't — the probe was crushed 17 miles up,...
The Soviet Union built armored titanium tanks to survive Venus. The United States never built a lander at all. Every American Venus probe was...
They beat the heat, the pressure, and the sulfuric acid. What kept beating them was the lid over the lens. On October 22, 1975,...
A titanium sphere built to land on Venus. A timer set wrong. Fifty-three years stranded in orbit around the wrong planet. When the toughest...