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Lieutenant Viktor Belenko said later he did not steal the jet. He had clearances. He changed his flight plan. What the West found inside...
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Lieutenant Viktor Belenko said later he did not steal the jet. He had clearances. He changed his flight plan. What the West found inside...
The Soviet Union found out about Sweden's development of a nuclear bomber, and Sweden was warned by the Soviets that there was no such...
On March 21, 1984, the 80,000-ton carrier USS Kitty Hawk struck the Soviet nuclear attack submarine K-314 in the Sea of Japan. When the...
The Sea Shadow was a $200 million black program, built between 1984 and 1985 by Lockheed for DARPA and the Navy at Redwood City,...
The SR-71 set a 2,193.167 mph record, gathered intelligence above 80,000 feet and was retired over cost and changing priorities.
The First Sea Lord warned in 2023 that the Royal Navy had spent eighty years getting smaller and now had to grow. Docks are...
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...
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...