The Cold War
A Weapon Without an Explosion or Traces. What the USSR Tested in 1984 and Why It Frightened the U.S.
In 1984, an American reconnaissance satellite detected a strange phenomenon over the territory of the USSR—at an altitude of about 80 kilometers, the ...
Danila Karpenko
The Cold War gave rise to many remarkable weapons. Some became symbols of their era, others turned into dead-end branches of technological development, and ...
When people talk about Cold War reconnaissance aircraft, they usually think of the U-2, SR-71, RC-135, or at least the Canberra equipped with photographic ...
At some point during the Cold War, engineers stopped asking themselves, “How sensible is this?” and began thinking in a different framework: “Is this even ...
In the late 1940s, American engineers attempted to solve one of the major problems facing strategic aviation: how to protect heavy bombers from enemy fighters ...
Sometimes the strangest and most futuristic objects aren’t from movies at all, but from the real history of technology. One such example is the navigation ...