3 Of The Worst Combat Aircraft Flown During The Korean War
The Korean War featured the first jets the U.S. military flew in combat, but not everything was new and shiny. Some aircraft ...
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Designing Nuclear-Armed Rockets To Destroy Doomsday Asteroids
Millions of lives were at stake in the simulation, as government heads raced to decide whether or not to rocket nuclear ... race - a fiery nuclear war between the Cold War superpowers - before ...
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Rocket Report: SpaceX lands in the Bahamas; ULA tests modified booster
Welcome to Edition 7.32 of the Rocket Report! It's true that the US ... Kennedy's challenge to land astronauts on the Moon amid intense Cold War competition with the Soviet Union.
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How Sweden made the best fighter jet - Saab 35 Draken
The Saab 35 Draken was Sweden's answer to Cold War threats, a supersonic jet that ... This video explores its revolutionary design, how it accidentally pioneered the Cobra maneuver, and why ...
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Royal New Zealand Air Force Seasprite Helicopter Tests ‘Penguin’ Anti-Ship Missile for the First Time
Additionally, the mark three variant, not used by New Zealand, can glide after initial launch, delaying the time until the rocket motor ... landings during the Cold War. Royal Norwegian Navy ...
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From Trainer to Warrior: The Role of the Fouga CM.170 Magister in Combat
The Fouga CM.170 Magister is a two-seat military jet trainer developed in France in the 1950s by Fouga Aviation (later part of Aérospatiale). O post From Trainer to Warrior: The Role of the Fouga ...
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William R. Lucas, Official Blamed in Challenger Tragedy, Dies at 102
Dr. Lucas was described as a strong-willed, even autocratic director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, which supervised the design and building of the booster rocket whose failure ...
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Threat of Russian missile attack on Britain is 'highest since Cold War' with fleet of Putin's rocket-laden subs and warships off Norway posing acute threat to UK mainland ...
The threat of a Russian missile attack on Britain is the highest since the end of the Cold War, a report has warned. Vladimir Putin's fleet of rocket-laden submarines and warships off the coast of ...
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The island priest who fought a nuclear rockets range
Seventy years ago, in the early years of the Cold War, East and West were locked in a nuclear arms race. The UK government needed somewhere to test its first rockets capable of carrying a nuclear ...
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A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
It’s 1962. Cold War tensions bristle between Washington and Moscow. Forced to enlist by the United States military, a young physician reluctantly cuts short his medical residency at New York’s ...
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Cold War nuclear bunker could become tourist site
A Cold War nuclear bunker could be turned into a tourist attraction after it was bought at auction for more than double the guide price. The 1958 Royal Observer Corps monitoring post in the ...