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“The Night Witches”: The Soviet Air Force’s Deadliest Female Bomber Pilots
As part of its Women’s History Month coverage, The National Interest is publishing a multi-part series honoring some of ...
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Stolen Tech: The Soviet Shuttle
It may not have not been a good idea: the Dyna-Soar, Blue Gemini, and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory were all projects abandoned by the US Air Force for lack of a clear goal. The Soviet Union ...
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U.S. Air Force B-52 Bombers Just Flew Right to Russia's Doorstep
ceded from Germany to the Soviet Union post-WWII, also has a contentious history due to the Soviet-ordered Katyn massacre. A pair of United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers deployed to ...
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The PZL-230 Skorpion was the Soviet Response to the A-10 Warthog
Indeed, the A-10 Warthog was devised to fight World War III, i.e., the Cold War turning “hot” via an invasion of Western Europe by the Soviet Union ... Polish Air Force took on a newfound ...
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Attempt to retain power as Soviet leader by force would have sparked conflict - Gorbachev
Attempts to use force to stay in power would have triggered an acute civil conflict with unpredictable consequences, he believes. "Those were dark days for the Soviet Union and for Russia.