Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – On a spring night in 1989, Soviet fighter pilot Aleksandr Zuyev staged one of the Cold War’s boldest defections—stealing...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-117A Nighthawk was built for one job: slip past dense air defenses and put a smart bomb exactly...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The MBT-70 was an ambitious 1960s joint U.S.-German project to build a “super tank” to counter Soviet armored forces....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The 1968 loss of the U.S. nuclear submarine USS Scorpion with all 99 crew members remains one of the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The sinking of the K-278 Komsomolets in 1989 was a disaster rooted in the risks of an experimental design....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Two pivotal Cold War-era events gave the U.S. invaluable intelligence on Soviet fighter jets. In 1976, Viktor Belenko’s defection...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – F-15 vs. No Pilot MiG-23? – In July 1989, a Soviet MiG-23 took off from Poland, lost power on...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – After the Soviet collapse, advanced weapons were stranded across new states. In 1997 the United States quietly bought 21...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Parche began life as a Sturgeon-class fast attack sub, but an extensive late-’80s rebuild—adding a 100-foot section stuffed...