The MiG-29 and Su-27 were the Soviet Union's iconic fighter jets of the Cold War, but these dogfighters served sometimes very ...

The Ilyushin Il-86 was the USSR’s ambitious attempt to match the Boeing 747. Designed with built-in boarding stairs and lower ...

China appears to have built a new prototype of a mostly ignored military aircraft; a Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) plane. Also commonly known by the Russian word ekranoplan, it's a type of aircraft ...

The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes of intellectual property theft in aviation history. Although the Cold War ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Sixteen Victor I submarines were commissioned through 1974, all of which retired in 1997 and have since been disposed of. Though they provided a massive generational ...

Beauty and Utility: Sociological Issues of Material—Artistic Culture (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1967) is the first monograph written by the Soviet design critic, philosopher, editor and educator Karl Kantor ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — When hard-line Islamists marched on Indonesia’s parliament to protest what they consider the growing influence of communism, they could hardly have picked a more ironic place to ...

There's a handful of military planes that, no matter the specifics of their backstory, will always be defined by one incident that secured its place in history books for the rest of time. Whether it's ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Katherine Zubovich on her new book about skyscrapers in Moscow. Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On November 4, the Department of Defense announced a $400 million ...