HISTORY • May 25, 2025
Soviet Aerial Tankers In The Cold War
US and NATO forces made extensive use of air-to-air refuelling throughout the Cold War. It's therefore natural to assume that Soviet air forces did…
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BALLISTIC MISSILE SUBMARINES • May 9, 2025
Russia’s Delta III SSBN 4-Minute Breakdown
Get a quick and focused look at the Soviet Union’s Delta III-class ballistic missile submarine in just 4 minutes. This short video covers the…
CONFLICTS • May 7, 2025
Russia Victory Day Parade LIVE | Putin Flaunts Military Might Amid Ukraine’s Threats | Xi Jinping
Russian President Vladimir Putin will address the "grandest" ever annual Victory Day parade in Moscow, evoking the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in…
AIR & SPACE • May 6, 2025
What indigenous Indian weapons make the Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jet very lethal ?
The Sukhoi Su-30 is a twin-engine, two-seat super-maneuverable fighter aircraft developed in the Soviet Union by Russia's Sukhoi Aviation Corporation. It is a multirole…
HISTORY • May 2, 2025
Historian Answers Cold War Questions
Expert of Eastern European and Russian affairs and Director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute Dr. Michael Kimmage joins WIRED to answer the internet's…
HISTORY • May 2, 2025
The Secret Submarine That May Have Saved the World
The Seawolf-class was supposed to be America’s answer to a terrifying question: What if the Cold War went terribly wrong? Faster, deeper-diving, and seventy…
AIR & SPACE • Apr 16, 2025
The Most Dangerous Space Weapon Ever Launched?
In July of 1974, the USSR fired the first and only cannon to be shot into space. Haunted by fears of U.S. spacecraft inspecting…
HISTORY • Mar 27, 2025
Operation Ivy Bells: America’s Greatest Submarine Spy Mission
The USS Halibut was no ordinary submarine. In one of the most daring missions of the Cold War, this U.S. spy sub silently infiltrated…
ELECTRONIC WARFARE • Mar 25, 2025
The FORBIDDEN Soviet Base Where Mankind Nearly Died
It was happening.A shrill alarm shattered the silence. The night of September 26, 1983, had become suddenly and unbearably heavy in a Soviet command…
ACCIDENTS & INCIDENTS • Mar 22, 2025
K-429: Only Russian Submarine in History to Sink Twice
K-429: Only Russian Submarine in History to Sink Twice.During the Cold War, the Soviet Union faced numerous submarine accidents, exacerbated by its struggle to…
HISTORY • Feb 26, 2025
SSV-33 Ural – Bizarre Failure of A Soviet Spy Ship
In today's video, we return to the Cold War. In this case, to the very tail end of it with one of the last…
HISTORY • Feb 24, 2025
Soviet Submarine Graveyard – Rotting Remnants of A Proud Fleet
As an admittedly unintentional Soviet Double Feature, today's shipwreck video is one more like the Murmansk video. Looking at abandoned Soviet warships, rotting away…
DRONES • Jan 21, 2025
The True Story Behind Trump’s Greenland Idea
You might think that Greenland doesn't have much value, but that's because you are looking at a map the wrong way. You need to…
AIR & SPACE • Jan 2, 2025
Cold War Guardians: The B-47 Nuclear Bomber | Things You Might Not Know
The B-47 Stratojet: a sleek, swept-wing icon of the Cold War, and a pivotal aircraft in aviation history. This jet-powered bomber, developed in secrecy…
AIR & SPACE • Dec 31, 2024
Man-portable air defense systems (MANPADs | Defense Updates
Man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) are surface-to-air missiles designed for use by an individual or a small team, primarily to target enemy aerial assets.…
AIR & SPACE • Dec 18, 2024
The Soviet Yak-38 Jump Jet Aircraft Overview | AMBITIOUS FAILURE
Was the Yak-38 the Soviet Union's answer to the legendary Harrier Jump Jet, or just a flying experiment gone hilariously wrong? Join me as…
HISTORY • Dec 18, 2024
Semipalatinsk: The USSR’s Nuclear Test Site
The Soviet Union's first atomic bomb test in 1949 changed history—but at what cost? Today, we unravel the devastating human and environmental toll of…
HISTORY • Dec 3, 2024
Tupolev’s Aero-Engined Snowmobiles Were The Bear’s Distant Cousins
The Soviet Union's OKBs were not just responsible for aircraft designs. From the earliest days of the Soviet Union the big names produced other…
HISTORY • Nov 23, 2024
6.9 Megatons Hydrogen Bomb Testing Castle Union 1954
Castle Union was one of the nuclear tests conducted by the United States as part of Operation Castle in 1954. This operation was designed…
AIR & SPACE • Nov 16, 2024
XF-108 Rapier: The North American Ultimate Weapon That Never Was And Other Experimental Aircraft
The F-108 Rapier: A Dream That Never Took FlightThe F-108 Rapier was an experimental aircraft developed in the late 1950s by North American Aviation.…
AIR & SPACE • Nov 8, 2024
How the CIA stole a Soviet space ship during the Cold War Space Race
The summer of 1959 saw tensions between the USA and the Soviet Union experience an unprecedented thaw. The two global superpowers decided it would…
HISTORY • Oct 26, 2024
What’s Left of The Flying Ship?
At the height of the Cold War, as the United States and the Soviet Union vied for control of the seas, the USS Plainview…
ARTILLERY • Oct 21, 2024
Ukraine’s Home Built Missile is Better Than You Think
Ukraine has been working on developing their own ballistic missile system for a while. Way back in the ancient days of 1996, they first…