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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...
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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...
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...
No combat jet in service flies faster than Russia's MiG-31. It carries the Kinzhal hypersonic missile, reaches into Ukrainian skies, and probes NATO's borders....
In 1997, the Pentagon bought 21 Soviet MiG-29 fighters out from under Iran and flew them to Ohio in pieces. The bargain was real,...
There was nothing unusual about that Friday morning at the Malton plant, where some of the most advanced aircraft on Earth were taking shape....
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...
On June 30, 1971, the Soyuz 11 capsule landed on target in Kazakhstan, ending a triumphant mission: its three cosmonauts had just completed humanity's...
Nearly fifty years after launch, Voyager 1 is approaching the end, but not because anything is breaking. It is simply running out of electricity....
In June 1985 the Soviet Union did something that still sounds impossible: it flew two balloons through the clouds of another planet. Released into...