0:00 intro0:32 variable position canopy 1:00 canards1:18 YF-12 prototype1:30 complex splitters and shockwave2:24 forward landing gear3:00 main air iRead More…
U.K. Month continues with a look at the SEPECAT Jaguar. The anglo-French jet that was too much of a handful to serve as a trainer as designed, found sRead More…
The WS-125 was an American super long-range strategic bomber project during the Cold War to develop a nuclear-powered aircraft.In 1954, the UnitRead More…
A short XB-70 Valkyrie storyThe North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie was the prototype version of the planned B-70 nuclear-armed, deep-penetration sRead More…
With the Rockwell B-1 Lancer program out of the picture thanks to budget cuts, aircraft manufacturers began scrambling for ways to become the United SRead More…
In early 1968, the Soviet nuclear ballistic missile submarine K-129 went abruptly missing near American waters off the coasts of Hawaii.Read More…
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The Supersonic Low Altitude Missile or SLAM (not to be mistaken for the later AGM-84E Standoff Land Attack Missile) was a nuclear-powered weapon with Read More…
As Germany was inevitably losing its grip during the last stages of World War 2, it was also in the midst of developing the turbojet, a leading-edge tRead More…
The little known, fastest submarine ever built. The Papa-class SSGN could have defeated NATO fleets if not for one major flaw.#papa #ssgn #sovietRead More…
Flying at 70,000 feet above the world at three times the speed of sound floats the future of combat – so much so that the US air force called it the lRead More…
According to Ernest Hemmingway, a man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will eRead More…
One jet was clocked at 2,400 mph and the U.S. didn’t have a single aircraft that could catch it.Read More…
A top-secret document describing a 1958 United States Air Force program to build an underground base on the Moon was redacted right after the SovietRead More…
Carrying 48 rockets and the most powerful engine of its type outside the Soviet bloc, this buzzy little fighter could fly just as fast and pack a puRead More…
The V force was a legendary team of bombers built to serve during the post-war crisis. However, they would not carry ordinary bombs, but nuclear weaRead More…
In the early 1950s, the V. M. Myasishchev Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-23), under the direction of Major General of Engineering Vladimir M. MyasiRead More…