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Lockheed built 188 S-3 Vikings for one job: finding and killing Soviet submarines from the deck of an aircraft carrier. The Soviet Union collapsed...
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Lockheed built 188 S-3 Vikings for one job: finding and killing Soviet submarines from the deck of an aircraft carrier. The Soviet Union collapsed...
At around one in the morning on April 3, 1972, four red-hot titanium spheres fell out of the sky onto farmland near Ashburton on...
On October 1, 1959, Chinese-built copies of the Soviet T-54A crossed Tiananmen Square at the parade marking the People's Republic's tenth anniversary. They came...
No Soviet aircraft frightened Western planners like the MiG-25 Foxbat. On paper it was capable of Mach 3.2, powered by two Tumansky R-15B-300 afterburning...
Minsk was condemned three times and survived all three. Sold to a South Korean firm for scrap in 1995, she was passed to a...
The Air Force did not retire the SR-71 because something better came along. Nothing better exists. On March 6, 1990, Lieutenant Colonel Ed Yielding...
The record for the highest absolute altitude still belongs to Fedotov and the MiG-25 Foxbat from the USSR.
The SR-71 aircraft designed to outrun and out-photograph the Soviet Union had a problem: it had to be made of titanium, and the Soviets...
In 1979 the supercarrier USS Ranger collided with the Liberian-flagged tanker SS Fortune roughly 30 miles east of Singapore, in one of the busiest...
The surface of Venus sits at about 870°F under a sea-level atmospheric pressure roughly 92 times that of Earth. Standing there would be comparable...