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Given Russia’s stature as a near-peer competitor of the United States with interests in regions as far afield from Moscow as Latin America and...
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Given Russia’s stature as a near-peer competitor of the United States with interests in regions as far afield from Moscow as Latin America and...
The X-20 certainly looked like it could make history. So why did not go from test vehicle to deployed weapon against the then Soviet...
Russia today has quite a few powerful fighter jets like the Su-35 and new stealth planes like the Su-57 Felon. However, the old Soviet...
The Typhoon-class submarines are now quite old and a relic of the Cold War. And yet, they are still today the largest submarines to...
While the Soviet Union’s MiG-23 was designed to go toe-to-toe with American and European third-generation fighters and replace the aging MiG-21, it is not...
The Air Force was truly worried about the lethality of Russian nuclear bombers. The solution: arm US fighter jets with nuclear missiles that could...
Atomic Annie was a one-of-a-kind weapon of war for the US Army. Thankfully it was only tested once and did not spark, start or...
The Panther: Was this Hitler’s best WWII tank built to fight Russia? In August 2021, an 84-year-old man in Germany was convicted of illegal weapons...
Having just penned an article on Sweden’s Saab 37 Viggen and noting therein its unique claim to aviation history fame, I reckon that one...
In a 19FortyFive article I wrote today on the subject of the legendary Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä, I made a note of the fact that...