Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

During the final days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed what seemed like pure science fiction: mobile laser tanks ...

As the 1980s dawned, the Japan Engineer District (JED) had firmly established itself as a cornerstone of the U.S. military’s ...

North Korea is rapidly modernising its military with Russian support, gaining advanced weapons, battlefield experience, and ...

The War Zone, an online military magazine, notes that while nuclear-armed air-to-air missiles were part of the Soviet Union's ...

Commander "Buster" Crabb disappeared during a visit to the UK by Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev. In 2006, a BBC reporter read the files that detailed his secret mission.

When I was a junior officer during the Cold War, the biggest North Atlantic Treaty Organization military training exercises — ...

The most striking feature of the Almaz station was the 23mm Nudelman-Rikhter (NR-23) cannon, a modified aircraft gun adapted ...

Buried 600 feet beneath solid granite in Ontario lies a colossal relic of Cold War military engineering — the NORAD North Bay ...

When I was a junior officer during the Cold War, the biggest North Atlantic Treaty Organization military training exercises — ...

The Cold War was a period of intense competition between superpowers, with each side trying to outdo the other in variou ...