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This week in history: From missing monks to Soviet standoffs

This Week in History: From missing monks to Soviet standoffs - Explore how major events between 23 and 29 March were captured ...
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The Soviet Union’s forgotten 1987 experiment: The light motor rifle division and the quest for a more deployable army

In the late Cold War, the Soviet Union explored a bold new idea: a lighter, more deployable version of its powerful Motor ...

This Top-Secret Satellite Spied on Enemy Weapons for the U.S. Air Force, Declassified Files Reveal

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 ...
The National Interest

The Soviet Union’s MiG-21 Jet Fighter Defined an Aircraft Era

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 ...
The National Interest

MiG-105 Spiral: The Little-Known Soviet Starfighter

The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and anti-satellite (ASAT) warfare. The MiG-105 “Spiral” was a product of the height ...
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These 25 Weapons Nearly Triggered World War III

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 ...