Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – Titanium promised the Soviets deeper-diving, faster, low-magnetic submarines like Alfa and Sierra, but it came with brutal industrial, cost, and sustainment...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – The XB-70 Valkyrie was born from a simple Cold War idea: fly so high and fast that nothing could touch you....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – Years before the SR-71 Blackbird made headlines, its CIA predecessor—the A-12 Oxcart—was already flying Mach 3 reconnaissance over North Vietnam. -In...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Lockheed S-3 Viking entered service in the 1970s as a carrier-based “Swiss Army Knife,” hunting subs, refueling jets,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Soviet November-class (Project 627) submarines were Moscow’s first nuclear-powered attack boats, built to carry massive nuclear torpedoes against...
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Key Points and Summary – USS Constellation (CV-64), the second Kitty Hawk–class carrier, was a conventionally powered Cold War workhorse that bridged the era...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Submarine – In 1968, the Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific, prompting the CIA’s ultra-secret Project Azorian. -Using Howard...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – During the Cold War, two Soviet pilots handed the West priceless insights by flying their jets to freedom. In...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was a “technical marvel” of the 1950s—a Mach 3, 70,000-foot nuclear bomber designed to...