Throughout the 45 years of the Cold War, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics one-upped each other in developing various military and scientific technologies. While the ...

Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

During the final days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed what seemed like pure science fiction: mobile laser tanks ...

Laser tanks aren't just a sci-fi concept — they're very much real, and prototypes have existed since the Cold War era ... the end of the Soviet Union. However, the Russian military powered ...

So, when the Glomar sailed 1,800 miles northwest of Hawaii in a vast ocean wilderness toward the Soviet Union ... armed ballistic missiles and untold Cold War secrets. “This is a long period ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis was two decades in the rearview, but in the early 1980s, Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union ... U.S. military leaders were playing a game of ...

that in the mid-1980s when there was a rough military parity between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., a Soviet leadership had no alternative but to seek to end the Cold War. So long as it remained cold ...

new service branches and a massive industrial powerhouse behind it — not to mention a growing nuclear arsenal — the U.S. military found itself in a massive Cold War with the Soviet Union.

During the Cold War, the Soviet military undertook a secret mapping program that’s only recently come to light in the West. Military cartographers created hundreds of thousands of maps and ...

This was just one of the military exercises in the series named Team Spirit that the US participated in with South Korea over the course of 19 years. During the Cold War, Soviet subs would often ...

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