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Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven at Raytheon after a chocolate bar in his pocket melted near an active radar magnetron in 1945. Spencer...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
A U.S. Marine Corps pilot ejected from his F-8 Crusader fighter at 47,000 feet during a Cold War flight from Massachusetts to South Carolina....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Air Force resurrected 2 B-52 Stratofortress bombers from the Boneyard in the Arizona desert. B-52H “Ghost Rider” tail number 61-0007 was resurrected...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Soviet K-219 nuclear ballistic missile submarine sank in the North Atlantic off the coast of Bermuda in October 1986. The Yankee-class submarine rests...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The SR-71 Blackbird holds multiple speed and altitude records that have never been broken. On September 1, 1974, an SR-71 flew from New York...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The SR-71 Blackbird is one of the most novel aircraft of the Cold War. The reconnaissance jet operated at 85,000+ feet at Mach 3+...
Dollars and Sense
The Soviet Union built the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic transport to compete with the Anglo-French Concorde. The aircraft was nicknamed “Concordski” in the West. The...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In May 1989, Soviet Air Force Captain Alexander Zuyev defected to NATO by stealing a Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jet. Zuyev was an elite...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Soviet Union built the MiG-25 Foxbat to counter U.S. bombers and the SR-71 Blackbird. On paper, it could reach Mach 3.2. The realistic...