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The Improved Kilo-II, Russia’s Project 636.3, displaces 3,950 tons submerged, makes 20 knots, stays out 45 days with a crew of 60, and carries...
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The Improved Kilo-II, Russia’s Project 636.3, displaces 3,950 tons submerged, makes 20 knots, stays out 45 days with a crew of 60, and carries...
Russia’s Borei-class submarine has one job: hide under the Arctic and Pacific and fire back if Russia’s other nuclear forces have been struck. Each...
The K-278 Komsomolets was the only Mike-class submarine the Soviet Union ever built: a titanium double hull, a reactor that cooled itself without noisy...
Summary and Key Points: In the summer of 1984, SR-71 Blackbird 61-7974 suffered a double engine unstart at 83,000 feet off Murmansk while Soviet...
Kelly Johnson’s YF-12A took the A-12 Oxcart airframe, added a second crewman, the Hughes AN/ASG-18 pulse-Doppler radar and bays for AIM-47A Falcon missiles, and...
Project 885 or Yasen-class took from a mid-1970s drawing board to 2010 to deliver Severodvinsk, and Russia kept paying through the Soviet collapse to...
Project 661 Anchar, NATO’s Papa class, was a titanium-hulled, twin-reactor missile submarine built at Sevmash to sprint at a US carrier group, fire ten...
Built with a titanium pressure hull at Sevmash, the Soviet K-278 Komsomolets reached 1,020 meters, a depth no NATO submarine could follow and still...
The Tu-160 “White Swan” first flew on December 18, 1981, and remains the heaviest combat aircraft ever built: 275 metric tons, variable-sweep wings, Mach...
Admiral Nakhimov, the 827-foot Kirov-class nuclear battlecruiser that left the fleet in 1999, has returned to Severomorsk with sea trials reportedly complete and 176...