Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
While the Soviet Union’s MiG-23 was designed to go toe-to-toe with American and European third-generation fighters and replace the aging MiG-21, it is not...
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While the Soviet Union’s MiG-23 was designed to go toe-to-toe with American and European third-generation fighters and replace the aging MiG-21, it is not...
The Air Force was truly worried about the lethality of Russian nuclear bombers. The solution: arm US fighter jets with nuclear missiles that could...
Atomic Annie was a one-of-a-kind weapon of war for the US Army. Thankfully it was only tested once and did not spark, start or...
The Panther: Was this Hitler’s best WWII tank built to fight Russia? In August 2021, an 84-year-old man in Germany was convicted of illegal weapons...
Having just penned an article on Sweden’s Saab 37 Viggen and noting therein its unique claim to aviation history fame, I reckon that one...
In a 19FortyFive article I wrote today on the subject of the legendary Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä, I made a note of the fact that...
The SR-71 Blackbird is one of the United States’ most distinctive spy aircraft of the Cold War. Since the aircraft was developed in total...
The Buran was Russia’s Cold War attempt to compete with NASA’s space shuttle. The Buran did get into space, however, the fall of the...
As one of Russia’s primary ground attack aircraft, the Su-25 is arguably one of Russia’s most famous aircraft currently in service. Dubbed as the...
The Su-27 Flanker Was Meant to Take on the F-15 Eagle – It Became Much More: Developed by the Soviet Union in the early...