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Cold War U.S. Navy analysts, watching the Soviets build something extraordinary at the Sudomekh shipyard in Leningrad through the 1960s and 1970s, reached a...
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Cold War U.S. Navy analysts, watching the Soviets build something extraordinary at the Sudomekh shipyard in Leningrad through the 1960s and 1970s, reached a...
As China’s fifth-generation airpower continues to grow, the United States is once again trying to understand an adversary aircraft it has never seen in...
The SR-71 Blackbird was an outstanding aircraft. It was designed and built by Clarence “Kelly” Johnson’s Lockheed “Skunk Works” in Burbank, California. It was...
Some called the SR-71 Blackbird. during its later years the 'flying battleship' as it was loved and respected but losing its battle to father...
The Soviet Union was building a nuclear aircraft carrier designed to rival the American Nimitz-class — 80,000 tons, four nuclear reactors, steam catapults, a...
Twenty-three Russian sailors survived the explosion that sank the Oscar-class nuclear submarine Kursk and waited at the bottom of the Barents Sea for a...
At 83,000 feet over the Soviet Union, both engines on an SR-71 Blackbird quit at Mach 3. The crew had two options: eject into...
In 1969, the USS Guitarro (SSN-665), a state-of-the-art U.S. Navy nuclear submarine at the time, sank while still docked. Thankfully, no lives were lost,...
The SR-71 Blackbird’s Real Speed Limit Was 427°C at the Compressor Face — Pratt & Whitney Wouldn’t Guarantee the J58 Engines Past That Temperature...
SR-71 Blackbird Pilot David Peters: ‘Very Few Missiles Could Make Up 36 or More Miles Per Minute’ The iconic SR-71 Blackbird was America’s spy...