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Key Points and Summary – In a little-known 1981 NATO exercise, a quietly upgraded Canadian Oberon-class diesel submarine slipped through the defenses of a...
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Key Points and Summary – In a little-known 1981 NATO exercise, a quietly upgraded Canadian Oberon-class diesel submarine slipped through the defenses of a...
Key Points and Summary – Sweden may have joined NATO only in 2024, but during the Cold War it quietly designed its own nuclear...
Article Summary – In 1984, a Soviet Victor-class submarine, K-314, unexpectedly surfaced at night directly in front of USS Kitty Hawk during exercises in...
Key Points and Summary – The MBT-70 was a bold U.S.–West German effort in the 1960s to build a revolutionary main battle tank with...
Article Summary – The Soviet Alfa-class was a radical answer to a Cold War problem: sprint through NATO’s GIUK chokepoint, hunt U.S. carriers, and...
Article Summary – The Lockheed XF-104 Starfighter emerged directly from Korean War combat lessons, after U.S. pilots found their F-86 Sabres outclassed by MiG-15s....
Article Summary – The Seawolf-class was conceived at the height of the Cold War to outclass new, ultra-quiet Soviet Akula and Sierra boats with...
Key Points and Summary – The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was the RCAF’s bold bid for a homegrown supersonic interceptor, designed in the 1950s...
The SR-71 Blackbird is one of the most iconic aircraft of the Cold War. Despite being built in the 1960s, the plane still holds...
The A-10 Was Built to Punch Soviet Armored Formations — but Found a Second Life in Iraq and Afghanistan