The Soviet Moon Landing Hoax that Terrified NASA and the CIA
On September 18, 1968, Western intelligence picked up a signal from Zond 5, a Soviet lunar mission.The messages were unusual. They emitted the voiceRead More…
Category: Cold War
The Truly Bizarre Humpback F-107A Ultra Sabre
In the early 1950s, North American Aviation used the airframe of its successful F100 Super Sabre to build a prototype for a US Air Force all-weatherRead More…
Rare Soviet Supersonic Myasishchev M-50 Bounder
The Myasishchev M-50 ‘Bounder’ was a rare Soviet Air Force four-jet engine supersonic strategic bomber prototype conceived to strike against theRead More…
Douglas B-66 Destroyer – A Bomber that Never Actually Destroyed Anything
The Douglas B-66 Destroyer was a highly valuable asset during the Vietnam War. Built during the 1950s, the aircraft would eventually become a productiRead More…
America’s Mach 3 SUPER-BOMBER – and World’s Only
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was the largest and fastest bomber ever built by the United States, but the massive six-engine Mach 3.0-capable jet Read More…
Operation Sunshine – Breaking the North Pole
USS Nautilus was the first operational nuclear-powered submarine and shared its name with Jules Verne’s classic novel, ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues UnRead More…
Nike-Hercules – US’s Surface To Air Missile with Nuclear Warheads.
From 1958 to 1979 there were nuclear tipped surface to air missile stationed across the US, ready to defend the country against massed squadrons of SoRead More…
What if the US Just Gave Up and Nuked Vietnam? Operation Duck Hook
When Richard Nixon became president in 1969, the Vietnam War was in its 14th year, and the recent Paris peace negotiations with North Vietnam had not Read More…
Antonov An-30: A Little Known Soviet Aerial Cartography Platform
Developed on the basis of the Antonov An-24 airframe by Beriev of the Soviet Union, the Antonov An-30 is known as an aerial cartography platform. The Read More…
The Secret CIA Acoustic Kitty Project
Around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 1960s, there were reports that the Soviet Union was spending millions of rubles in extremRead More…
Handley Page Victor: The Weirdest Bomber of the Cold War
What makes the HP.80 Victor famous was not because of its power but because of its unique design. Responsible for developing the HP.80 VicRead More…
