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Boeing built more than 2,000 B-47 Stratojets between 1947 and 1957, and the type formed the backbone of Strategic Air Command through the 1950s....
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Boeing built more than 2,000 B-47 Stratojets between 1947 and 1957, and the type formed the backbone of Strategic Air Command through the 1950s....
Kosmos 482 lifted off from Baikonur on 31 March 1972, bound for Venus as the sister craft to Venera 8. It reached parking orbit,...
USS Saratoga cost $209.7 million, displaced 81,101 tons and carried up to 100 aircraft before fighting in Vietnam and Desert Storm.
Rebuilding the Tu-160 line meant recovering things Russia had lost. Tupolev digitized design documentation that existed on paper, restored the vacuum welding needed for...
In December 1984 the Soviet Union launched Vega 2 on an unusual double mission: fly past Halley's Comet, then plunge into Venus, a world...
The Kilo-class submarine was designed in the 1970s, and Russia is still building it. That was not the plan. The follow-on Lada class, Project...
An SR-71 lost effective thrust at 83,000 feet near the Soviet Kola Peninsula, fell 65,000 feet, and reached a tanker with minutes left.
The four Kiev-class ships the Soviet Union commissioned between 1975 and 1987 looked like nothing else at sea. An angled flight deck ran down...
Workers at the Black Sea Shipyard in Nikolayev laid down the Soviet Union's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on November 25, 1988. Ulyanovsk was to...
Defense expert Harry J. Kazianis traces the Raptor drawdown: 750 planned, then 648, 442, 339, and finally 187 — the Soviet target collapsed a...