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Why Vertical Smoke Trails Are Seen During Nuclear Explosions
By Oliver Parken / Updated May 12, 2023
The Navy Procured This Midget Submarine For Coastal Defense During The Cold War
By Oliver Parken / Updated Apr 26, 2023
The Complicated Legacy Of The V-2 Rocket And Its Designer
By Dr. Charlie Hall / Updated Apr 12, 2023
This German Cruiser With A Crazy Past Had These Even Wackier Torpedo Launchers
By Oliver Parken / Updated Mar 1, 2023
Russia Also Has A Fleet Of Spy Balloons
By Piotr Butowski / Updated Feb 13, 2023
The Soviets Built Bespoke Balloon-Killer Planes During The Cold War
By Piotr Butowski / Updated Feb 7, 2023
Soviet Submarine Launched All Its Missiles In An Unprecedented Rehearsal For Armageddon
By Matus Smutny / Updated Jan 30, 2023
Navy Pilot Who Secretly Killed Four MiGs On One Mission Finally Recognized
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 24, 2023
How A British Submarine Spent Hours Under A Russian Aircraft Carrier
By Matus Smutny / Updated Jan 11, 2023
The B-2’s Little-Known GAM Weapon Was The First Satellite-Guided Bomb
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 5, 2023
The V-2 Rocket: Rise Of The Space Race And Cold War Missiles
By Dr. Charlie Hall / Updated Dec 8, 2022
The B-52 Flight Simulator Trains Of The Cold War
By Emma Helfrich / Updated Apr 29, 2022
Unique Soviet Monster Tank Designed To Survive A Nuclear Blast Has Roared Back To Life
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Mar 31, 2022
Bug Out To Your Own Decommissioned Atlas Missile Silo For $380k
By Brett Tingley / Updated Feb 1, 2022
The Secretive U-2 Spy Plane Missions Flown Out Of Norway’s Bodø Airbase
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 6, 2022
This Myth-Busting Walk-Around Of The Soviet MiG-23 Flogger Fighter Is A Must-Watch
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 10, 2021
The Soviet Meteorit Mach-3 Cruise Missile Was A Colossal Cold War Oddity
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 9, 2021
Life On The High Seas Aboard A Tin Can Destroyer During The Cold War
By Juan Rivera / Updated Oct 21, 2021
Two NATO Fighters Accidentally Flew Behind The Iron Curtain 60 Years Ago Today
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Sep 16, 2021
The Mach-3 XF-108 Rapier Would Have Packed Its Big Missiles On A Revolver-Like Launcher
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jul 14, 2021
You Can Bug-Out To Your Own Cold War Communications Bunker For A Cool $695,000
By Brett Tingley / Updated Jul 13, 2021
The Soviet-Era Hurricane High-Speed Missile Boat Had Absolutely Gargantuan Hydrofoils
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 12, 2021
A Boeing 707 That Survived The ‘Black September’ Hijacking Spree Is Getting Scrapped
By Thomas Newdick / Updated May 11, 2021
The Hunt For A Soviet Submarine Desperately Trying To Sneak Through The Strait Of Gibraltar
By Juan Rivera / Updated Apr 23, 2021
Canada’s CF-105 Arrow Interceptor Is The Cold War Legend That Refuses To Die
By Stephen Walker / Updated Mar 25, 2021
New Docs Show 1983 NATO Exercise Led To The Soviets Arming 100 Jets For Nuclear War
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 18, 2021
Take A Rare Look Inside Russia’s Doomsday Ballistic Missile Warning System
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 16, 2021
The Oddly Shaped USS Grayback Was A Cold War Submarine Like No Other
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 14, 2021
The Story Of The Jet That Would Have Delivered South Africa’s Nuclear Bomb
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 18, 2021
Behold The SR-71 Blackbird’s Nest At Dawn
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 1, 2021
Reflections And Wisdom From A Cold War Submarine Hunter
By Kevin Noonan and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 30, 2020
The Making Of A Submarine Hunting S-3 Viking Crewman
By Kevin Noonan and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 30, 2020
Britain’s Shackleton Radar Plane Was Born As An Already Antiquated Cold War Dinosaur
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 24, 2020
Chasing Soviet Missiles In The Cobra Ball From A Desolate Rock In The Aleutian Islands
By Robert Hopkins / Updated Dec 16, 2020
The Soviet Union’s Burya Cruise Missile Was A Little-Known Cold War Monster
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 15, 2020
This Was The Largest Conventional Explosion America Ever Set Off
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Here’s How An EC-135 Crew Pulled Off One Of The Most Jaw-Dropping Air Show Takeoffs Ever
By Robert Hopkins / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Russia Releases “Tsar Bomba” Test Footage Of The Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Blast Ever
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The Mysterious Cold War Case Of Unidentified Aircraft Descending On Loring Air Force Base
By Brett Tingley / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Yes, The United States Did Draw Up A Plan To Drop 80 Nuclear Weapons On North Korea
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The Day The Royal Air Force Lost Six Jet Fighters In Just 45 Minutes
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Britain’s Cold War-Era Monster Destroyer Has Finally Been Retired
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The TOZ-81 ‘Mars’ Gun Was The Soviet Union’s Ultimate Space Revolver
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Russia Still Uses This Cold War Relic Of An Underground Anti-Ship Missile System In Crimea
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
This Soviet Twin-Rotor Helicopter Design Was A High-Speed Rival To The Mi-24 Hind
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 25, 2020
Navy Maritime Patrol Planes Flying From Cold War Base In Bermuda For First Time In Decades
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 20, 2020
Skyhawks Over Cuba: VC-10 “Challengers” And Their TA-4J’s Unique Cold War Mission
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
US Navy Aircraft Carriers Had Escalators Just Like At The Mall
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
The U.S. Air Force’s Last Tail Gunner Has Retired
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020
Ryan Aeronautical Had Big Plans for the Vertifan Jump Jet
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020
The Pentagon Thought it Could Retire the U-2 in 1969
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020
The U.S. Navy Tried to Turn Whale Songs Into Secret Code
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020