The development of the Don-2N was a significant engineering feat, requiring advanced materials, precise manufacturing, and ...

Facing MiG-21PF interceptors guided by ground controllers and equipped with RP-21 and RP-22 radar, Vulcan crews had to rely on low-level flying, radar-warning receivers like Blue Saga, and jammers ...

Pilot Viktor Belenko’s defection was a major embarrassment for the Soviet Union—which was subsequently ... Belenko broke formation in his MiG-25 “Foxbat,” descended to avoid radar ...

As Cold War tensions soared, the RAF's Avro Vulcan faced a daring transformation—from sky-dominating bomber to low-altitude strike weapon. Could it weave through Soviet defenses, outmaneuver ...

Republican Senator Rand Paul says President Donald Trump’s military parade would be more at home in Soviet-era Russia. Paul told NBC’s Meet the Press that the Saturday parade—meant to ...

James Lloydovich Patterson, child star of Soviet-era film, dies at 91. The son of an African American father and a Russian mother, he starred at age 3 in a propaganda film mythologizing Soviet ...

A rumor circulating online in May 2025 claimed a photo authentically showed a 1930 Russian or Soviet vehicle called "Tarantaika," or "Boneshaker." However, the picture did not show a Russian ...

RTX Corporation’s RTX business segment, Raytheon, recently secured an order worth $536 million from the U.S. Navy to upgrade Flight IIA warships with its SPY-6(v)4 variant of radar. Per the deal ...

And throughout the 1970s and ’80s, she thumbed her nose at the Soviet Union, smuggling contraband across its borders and helping to resettle Soviet Jews who weren’t allowed to leave. Goldstein ...

Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since 1999, covering everything from architecture and transport design to books, tech and graphic design. He is now the magazine’s Transport and ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First ...

Six free agents who would fit on the Rangers’ offseason radar By . Mollie Walker. Published June 3, 2025, 6:20 a.m. ET.