Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – Titanium promised the Soviets deeper-diving, faster, low-magnetic submarines like Alfa and Sierra, but it came with brutal industrial, cost, and sustainment...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Submarine – In 1968, the Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific, prompting the CIA’s ultra-secret Project Azorian. -Using Howard...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – During the Cold War, two Soviet pilots handed the West priceless insights by flying their jets to freedom. In...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Poland’s lone submarine, the Kilo-class ORP Orzel, is an aging Soviet “black hole” boat that remains one of NATO’s...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Su-27 entered service in 1985 as the USSR’s premier agile heavyweight fighter—long denied to U.S. evaluators. -After the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Born to match America’s Ohio-class, the Project 941 Typhoon-class was the USSR’s ultimate second-strike machine: a double-hull giant with...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Born to counter the F-15, Russia’s Su-27 became the template for a family of agile, long-range fighters—and it still...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In 1997, the U.S. executed a highly effective “covert acquisition” by purchasing Moldova’s entire fleet of 21 MiG-29 fighter...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Admiral Kuznetsov’s 2016–17 deployment to Syria marked Russia’s first carrier-based combat operations. Sailing with a heavy escort, the ship...