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In 1997, the U.S. military quietly purchased 21 Soviet MiG-29 fighters from the tiny Eastern European country of Moldova—not from Russia, but from a...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The SR-71 Blackbird remains one of the most remarkable aircraft ever built, combining extreme speed, altitude, and survivability in a...
The Treaty
Key Points and Summary – In 1956, Britain, France, and Israel struck Egypt after Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, seeking to preserve Western leverage...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s latest 11-hour Tu-160 “White Swan” patrol over the Arctic underscores how a bomber designed in the late Cold...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – During the Cold War, the Soviet Union chased exotic undersea performance with titanium-hulled submarines like the Alfa and Mike...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The 1983 sinking of Soviet nuclear submarine K-429 was less a freak accident than a case study in naval...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Halibut began life as a Regulus cruise-missile submarine, but its real legacy came after a radical refit turned...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – In May 1989, Soviet MiG-29 pilot Aleksandr Zuyev pulled off one of the Cold War’s most daring defections. -Disillusioned with the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – For a decade, the MiG-25 Foxbat haunted Western imagination as a titanium Mach-3 super fighter that could outclass anything...