Indeed, the concept appears to have peaked during the second half of the Cold War. Today’s newer aircraft on both sides of the old Iron Curtain—including America’s F-22 and F-35, Russia’s ...

How the invention of the jet engine transformed Britain after the Second World War and came to capture the imagination of a generation and define how the Cold War was fought.

Compared to the first jets over 80 years ago, it's almost alien in appearance — fitting for today's high tech battlefield. However, in 2025, Cold War planes like the B-52 Stratofortress still ...

Unlike other Cold War aircraft, built with aggressively swept wings, the A-1 featured perfectly straight, low-mounted wings. The straight wings allowed for adept maneuvering at low speeds ...

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...

But Hitler's Nazi menace would soon be replaced by a new threat to world peace as the Soviet Union and the United States faced off in the Cold War ... But in the mid-1950s events would unfold ...