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In the chaos after the Soviet collapse, an American company tried to buy three of the USSR's most advanced supersonic bombers from newly independent...
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In the chaos after the Soviet collapse, an American company tried to buy three of the USSR's most advanced supersonic bombers from newly independent...
The story of Luna 15 is one of the great "what ifs" of the Space Race, and one most Americans have never heard. While...
In October 2016 Europe's Schiaparelli probe had nearly landed on Mars — surviving entry, parachute, and radar — when a sensor was overwhelmed for...
On November 27, 1971, the Soviet Mars 2 became the first human-made object ever to reach the surface of Mars. It got there the...
Russia designed the Admiral Gorshkov-class frigate to modernize a navy that hasn't built a destroyer-sized warship since the Cold War. Then the program stalled...
Canada is just weeks from a decision that could become the most expensive procurement in its history: choosing the submarines that will guard its...
When the Soviet Union sent two probes plunging into the atmosphere of Venus in December 1978, they carried an instrument named "Groza," the Russian...
The YA-9, The Aircraft That Could Have Been The A-10: The Northrop YA-9 was the primary competitor to the Fairchild Republic YA-10 in the...
Iran's first danger after sanctions relief isn't the first Russian jet or Chinese radar it buys, argues scholar Andrew Latham. It's the workshop that...
On March 1, 1982, a Soviet probe named Venera 13 settled onto the surface of Venus and did something no spacecraft had done before:...