The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact is one of those historical agreements remembered primarily because it was ultimately broken. On August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union ...

The Soviet Object 279 went down in history as perhaps the strangest tank ever to actually exist in metal. Four tracks, a 130 mm gun, extraordinarily heavy ...

When people talk about the “arsenal plane” concept today, they usually imagine a large aircraft operating at a relatively safe distance from the enemy while ...

We are accustomed to perceiving England as an almost eternal constant. Kings and dynasties changed, revolutions occurred, the British Empire was created and ...

In the history of Soviet tank building, there were quite a few vehicles that fell just a few years short of transitioning from experimental prototypes to ...

Saab and Sweden itself can be considered something of a unique phenomenon in the modern aerospace industry. Designing and manufacturing advanced combat ...

History loves dates that later generations turn into symbols. One such date is 476 AD—the traditional boundary between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when the ...

Historically, the world's first true stealth aircraft, the F-117A Nighthawk, was a machine of compromises. In pursuit of revolutionary radar invisibility, its ...

In this world, the French did not surrender 46 days after the war began. Straining their resources to the limit, they continued to fight. And the reason for ...