The sponge metaphor first emerged in 1978 when the Air Force’s top general announced a new plan to base cutting-edge nuclear missiles in the Southwest. The “Missile, Experimental,” or MX, a powerful ...
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Why a Soviet bomber really did carry a tank of vodka
It sounds like a myth, but it was a real feature of one of the Soviet Union’s earliest supersonic bombers. Designed at the edge of what technology could handle at the time, the aircraft proved ...
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The Soviet fighter-bomber born from obsession
At the height of the Cold War, as air power became a measure of national survival, a determined Soviet engineer pursued an aircraft unlike anything his country had flown before. Years of failures, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. polikarpov Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the ...
Winter weather boosts the thermal imaging capabilities on Ukraine’s "Baba Yaga" drones. This is giving Ukraine a tactical ...
Some aircraft succeeded even though they made life harder for the people flying them. They demanded constant attention, ...
After receiving a confirmation from reconnaissance about the target destruction, the crew safely returned to its airfield of departure, the Russian Defense Ministry said MOSCOW, January 2. /TASS/. A ...
Russia carried out the first flight of the Tu-160M supersonic strategic bomber built entirely from scratch since the end of ...
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