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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Technological leaps forward, as we know, often tend to be met with an equal parts excitement and fear. The fact is, nobody really knows what's possible and what isn't until somebody tries it and lives ...

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 ...

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 ...