In the early years of the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union were engineering and producing new fighter jets and bombers at a historic rate. The Korean War saw the first combat ...

The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and anti-satellite (ASAT) warfare. The MiG-105 “Spiral” was a product of the height ...

After WWII, people at the Pentagon thought seriously about fighting and winning a nuclear war. Neither nuclear submarines nor ICBMs had yet been invented, so the primary way of delivering the ...

"At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese People's Air Force (VPAF) was equipped with slow, old Korean War-generation fighters--a combination of MiG-17s and MiG-19s, types that should have ...