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 Cold War coincided almost perfectly with the rise of the jet age. In the denouement of World War II, American and Soviet forces scrambled to secure jet engine technology developed by German ...

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 ...