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The Soviet Union built the Kirov-class to sink American carriers with sheer missile weight. Russia has one hull left, and after a decade of...
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The Soviet Union built the Kirov-class to sink American carriers with sheer missile weight. Russia has one hull left, and after a decade of...
The first Komet flew in 1941 and shattered every speed record of its age, exceeding 620 mph before the jet engine even existed. For...
NASA receives 12,000 to 18,000 applications in a typical astronaut cycle and selects about ten to twelve people, an acceptance rate well below one...
The F-111B was supposed to be the Navy's long-range fleet defender. Shifting Cold War priorities and unhappy aviators killed it in 1968, and everything...
The jet in the air-show photos is not Russia's cancelled stealth fighter. It is the stand-in for a fighter that was never built at...
Khrushchev had killed the capital ship for good, or so Soviet doctrine said. Then a submarine hunter began absorbing missions, one requirement at a...
On 18 March 1965, the Soviet Union sent Alexei Leonov outside Voskhod 2 for the first spacewalk in history. The mission became a Space...
On September 6, 1976, a disillusioned Soviet lieutenant landed his MiG-25 at a civilian airport in Japan and handed the West its first look...
The U-2 was sold to Eisenhower as invisible to Soviet radar. The invisibility lasted exactly zero missions. What Kelly Johnson built to replace it...
Nearly fifty years after launch, Voyager 1 is approaching the end, but not because anything is breaking. It is simply running out of electricity....