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...
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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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was the United States’ most advanced Cold War spy plane. It was designed to fly over Soviet airspace at Mach...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1957, the U.S. Air Force began Project Pluto — a nuclear-powered cruise missile program. The result was the Supersonic Low Altitude Missile (SLAM)....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Lockheed D-21 was a Mach 3.3 reconnaissance drone. Lockheed’s Skunk Works built it in the early 1960s. Its mission: photograph China’s Lop Nor...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Between its maiden flight in 1964 and its retirement in 1999, the U.S. Air Force lost 12 of its Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52G strategic bomber from Seymour Johnson AFB in North Carolina — flying Operation Chrome Dome, a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In the early 1980s, Lockheed’s Skunk Works proposed converting the SR-71 Blackbird — the Mach 3+ reconnaissance aircraft that flew above 80,000 feet and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher (SSN-593) — the lead ship of a new class of U.S. Navy nuclear-powered fast attack submarines —...