In 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, during, and after the Cold War reconnaissance ...

Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could hold its own against the more sophisticated American jet. The best Soviet ...

When the roar of jet engines echoed over the frozen landscapes of North Korea in 1952, it often signaled a clash of titans in the skies. But on one particular day, November 18th, the skies bore ...

Throughout the Cold War, military planners on both sides of the Iron Curtain built weapons designed to deter the unthinkable. Yet several of those systems came dangerously close to coming active and ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The most likely outcome of war would have been short Chinese success, followed by a sharp, destructive Soviet rebuke. Americans tend to remember the Cuban... Here’s ...

Top 10: Best Soviet Combat Aircraft of the Second World War ...

How Venezuela’s aging Soviet-era military stacks up against US forces in the Caribbean (CNN) — The buildup of US naval forces in the Caribbean, boosted by the recent arrival near Latin America of the ...