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USS United States: The Supercarrier That Started Beef Between the Air Force and Navy
USS United States: The Supercarrier That Started Beef Between the Air Force and Navy

11 Jan 2024, 17:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Even after 70 years, some aspects of the military-industrial complex have never changed. Eisenhower tried to warn us, after all, if only we'd listened.

 
Avro Canada Jetliner: How the World's First Jet Airliner Almost Came From Ontario
Avro Canada Jetliner: How the World's First Jet Airliner Almost Came From Ontario

31 Oct 2023, 03:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Had it not been for the demise of the CF-105 Arrow the C102 Jetliner would have been the greatest missed opportunity in Canadian aviation history.

 
B-50 Superfortress: The Cold War U.S. Air Force's Idea of a Hot Rod Bomber
B-50 Superfortress: The Cold War U.S. Air Force's Idea of a Hot Rod Bomber

13 Oct 2023, 00:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Today, only five of the 370 B-50 airframes produced survive. Including one at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.

 
How the Soviet MiG-25 Tricked the United States Regarding Its True Capabilities
How the Soviet MiG-25 Tricked the United States Regarding Its True Capabilities

5 May 2023, 14:05 UTC · By: Henry Kelsall / The Soviet MiG-25 was a Mach 3 capable interceptor, and the United States believed it to be a lightweight, agile fighter, which was in fact far from the truth.

 
How Saab's Viggen Jet Fighter Locked Onto the US SR-71 Blackbird
How Saab's Viggen Jet Fighter Locked Onto the US SR-71 Blackbird

4 May 2023, 15:10 UTC · By: Henry Kelsall / Saabs 37 Viggen fighter jet remains the only aircraft to ever achieve a successful lock on the fearsome American Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane

 
Douglas A2D Skyshark: The U.S. Navy's Idea of an Engine Swap During the Cold War
Douglas A2D Skyshark: The U.S. Navy's Idea of an Engine Swap During the Cold War

28 Apr 2023, 20:57 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Like an old Chevy truck waiting for an LS swap, Douglas employed the Allison Engine Company to supply a turboprop powerplant for what became the A2D program.

 
Tupolev Tu-116: A Soviet Luxury VIP Airliner That Started Life as a Nuclear Bomber
Tupolev Tu-116: A Soviet Luxury VIP Airliner That Started Life as a Nuclear Bomber

21 Feb 2023, 00:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Seriously? An airliner fashioned out of the same airframe as a nuclear-capable bomber? That's the most Soviet thing we've heard in a long time

 
Convair NB-36: The Bonkers American Bomber With a Nuclear Reactor in its Belly
Convair NB-36: The Bonkers American Bomber With a Nuclear Reactor in its Belly

23 Dec 2022, 18:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The impetus for the NB-36's development is one rooted in the atomic era of the 1950s to late 1960s. A time where the U.S. went a bit nuts about nuclear power

 
Ikarus S-49: Yugoslavia's Answer to the Spitfire and the P-51 Mustang
Ikarus S-49: Yugoslavia's Answer to the Spitfire and the P-51 Mustang

23 Nov 2022, 17:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / After the Tito-Stalin split of 1948 especially, the S-49 project was a matter of the utmost importance inside Yugoslavia.

 
78 Years Ago, the British Loaned the Americans Their Best Jet Engine, Immediately Broke It
78 Years Ago, the British Loaned the Americans Their Best Jet Engine, Immediately Broke It

18 Oct 2022, 16:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It can't be argued the Messerschmitt Me-262 was the first operational turbojet fighter. But it wasn't all just German science. The British had jets too

 
Beriev S-13: The Forgotten Top-Secret Soviet Copycat of an American U-2 Spy Plane
Beriev S-13: The Forgotten Top-Secret Soviet Copycat of an American U-2 Spy Plane

14 Oct 2022, 18:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / By April 1961, Beriev had already completed the fuselage for the first prototype test vehicle. It was then canceled out of the blue a year later.

 
It’s a Boat, It’s a Plane, No, It’s an Abandoned Russian Sea Monster
It’s a Boat, It’s a Plane, No, It’s an Abandoned Russian Sea Monster

17 Sep 2022, 14:48 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / Back in the infamous Cold War, the Soviet Union were going at it with the U.S. in the Arms Race. That gave birth to war machines like the Caspian Sea Monster

 
This American Navy Jet Never Got to Tangle With a Soviet MiG
This American Navy Jet Never Got to Tangle With a Soviet MiG

16 Jul 2022, 05:17 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / From an outsider's perspective, it may appear like an inevitable epic battle of titans between the MiG Fresco and the Grumman Cougar was due.

 
F7U Cutlass: Named Like a Muscle Car, Dangerous to Match
F7U Cutlass: Named Like a Muscle Car, Dangerous to Match

19 Feb 2022, 07:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The story of this stunning-looking single-seat, twin-engined, carrier-based fighter jet dates back to the end of the Second World War.

 
This Boneheaded British Gift to the Soviet Air Force Haunted NATO for Decades
This Boneheaded British Gift to the Soviet Air Force Haunted NATO for Decades

18 Nov 2021, 00:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In a "goodwill" gesture, UK's Parliament leaders offered the fellow victorious Russians blueprints for the Nene designed jet-engine

 
Eccentric Car Collector Wanted for $13 Million Converted Cold War Bunker
Eccentric Car Collector Wanted for $13 Million Converted Cold War Bunker

12 Oct 2020, 14:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Redesigned by London architect Dan Smith, Seafield House in northwest London is a 6-bedroom luxury residence for anyone looking to escape the world

 
Russian Ground Effect Vehicles
Russian Ground Effect Vehicles

4 Aug 2018, 06:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Starting with the 1960s, the Russian military has been researching a series of ground effect vehicles. The idea of an ekranoplan has been revived this year.

 
Meet the Soviet Supersonic Aircraft TU-144, the Result of the Cold War’s Competition
Meet the Soviet Supersonic Aircraft TU-144, the Result of the Cold War’s Competition

6 Jun 2014, 12:39 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / While the French and British were working together to create the Concorde, the Soviets had their own version of the supersonic aircraft, called Tu-144. In total, the Russian made sixteen aircra...