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Military History
Israeli air force pilots shot down five MiG-21s flown by Soviet pilots in less than three minutes...
The SR-71 titanium story is still one of the most biting ironies of the Cold War. In...
The War of Attrition taught two important lessons about air power in the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1969-70....
In the early 1970s, reports of Soviet frogmen in Angola speak of a clandestine encounter with South...
Analysts often depict the Falklands air war as a contest between subsonic Sea Harriers and Argentina’s Mach...
Canada’s decision to scrap its indigenous fighter programme, the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, and buy the McDonnell...
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 Foxbat occupied a special place in Western threat assessments for nearly a decade. NATO...
The May 2, 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, is one of the...
The epitome of American stealth technology, the F-117 Nighthawk, suffered a humiliating surprise defeat over Yugoslavia in...
The collision of the SH 37 Viggen and the Su-15 over the Baltic Sea is a textbook...