Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The French AMX-30 was a Cold War main battle tank born from a unique design philosophy that prioritized mobility...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The M48 Patton, America’s first main battle tank, was introduced in 1952 to dominate the early Cold War battlefield....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The M60 was the U.S. Army’s primary Cold War main battle tank and a “product-improved descendant” of the M48...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin was a bizarre Cold War experiment: a tiny, egg-shaped “parasite fighter” designed to be carried...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Mikoyan MiG-31 “Foxhound” is a Cold War-era supersonic interceptor that has found a deadly new purpose in Russia’s...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Northrop F-20 Tigershark was a privately-funded, high-performance fighter jet developed in the early 1980s as an export successor...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
MiG-25 Defection Key Words and Summary – In 1976, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko made a daring defection, landing his top-secret MiG-25 Foxbat fighter in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The Convair B-58 Hustler was the world’s first supersonic bomber, a Cold War marvel designed to penetrate Soviet airspace at Mach...