During the Cold War, the Soviet Union pursued experimental aircraft that defied imagination. Hypersonic bombers, stealth ...

The Soviet Union's MiG-25 was a big ... Autoblog's sub-site dedicated to the vehicles, aircraft, and ships of the world's armed forces. The Cold War was a scary time. Yeah, we know, we didn ...

The US and Russian Air Forces maintain doomsday aircraft so that their presidents can command forces even in the event of a ...

The Yakovlev Yak-9 stood out as the fighter aircraft with the highest production in the Soviet Union during WWII, with an estimated 16,769 units manufactured. Fueled by a 1,650 horsepower engine ...

The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United States was ... the US Air Force started the X-20 Dyna-Soar project to develop a manned space plane for orbital reconnaissance, bombing, and ...

More than 50 modifications of aircraft were developed under the leadership of Soviet aerospace engineer Pavel Sukhoi, who was born July 22, 1895. He founded the Sukhoi Design Bureau in 1939.

The plane had already taken off carrying its deadly ... responded with a joke that challenged the role of scientists in the Soviet Union. The point of Nedelin's story was clear to Sakharov.

And, most harrowing, an American spy plane on a mission over Cuba fell ... as well as their crating and return to the Soviet Union ...

He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and later of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1984. He took part in design works on the Il-14 passenger plane, the Il-40 attack ...

Lindbergh, Jr. File Photo by Library of Congress/UPI In 1945, thousands of Allied planes started bombing ... In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.