Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Soviet Union built revolutionary titanium-hulled submarines—like the Alfa-class—that were faster and could dive deeper than any American sub....
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The 1975 mutiny that inspired The Hunt for Red October had a radically different motive than the fiction it...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Soviet Victor III-class submarine was a strategic shock to the U.S. Navy in the late 1970s. -While previous...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – On a spring night in 1989, Soviet fighter pilot Aleksandr Zuyev staged one of the Cold War’s boldest defections—stealing...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The 1968 loss of the U.S. nuclear submarine USS Scorpion with all 99 crew members remains one of the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The sinking of the K-278 Komsomolets in 1989 was a disaster rooted in the risks of an experimental design....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s Kirov-class battlecruisers are the definition of a prestige program: spectacular, singular, and strategically unwise. –Admiral Nakhimov spent roughly...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s Project 941 Typhoon-class SSBNs were purpose-built for nuclear war under Arctic ice: dual parallel pressure hulls for survivability,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – F-15 vs. No Pilot MiG-23? – In July 1989, a Soviet MiG-23 took off from Poland, lost power on...