This Soviet-era Russian war medal is worth $10 million
There are a ton of notable facts about the Soviet Union’s top war medal awarded during the Great Patriotic War – what Russia calls its part of World War II. …
Comparing the Soviet SKS rifle to the American M1 carbine
Whenever you compare the merits of two firearms against one another, there will be a huge row. Just ask fans of the M1911, designed by John Moses Browning — which served in the American military as the primary sidearm for seven decades — what th…
That time the USAF intercepted a pilotless Soviet fighter
On the morning of July 4, 1989, alarm bells blared at Soesterberg Air Base in the Netherlands, home of the US Air Force’s 32d Tactical Fighter Squadron.
Within minutes, a pair of armed F-15 Eagles, manned by Capts. J.D. Martin and Bill …
Watch the Air Force launch an ICBM in mid-air from the back of a C-5
During the Cold War, the American nuclear deterrent strategy required coming up with ways to guarantee the survival of nuclear weapons if the Soviets managed a surprise first strike. The surviving devices would then be used to destroy Soviet civiliz…
Why American submarines feared this Russian destroyer
Russian ships are often the butt of a joke. The aircraft carrier Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov, for instance, has had a long hi…
Iran and the CIA teamed up to test Soviet airspace defenses
Project Dark Gene sounds like an effort to create an unstoppable army of evil super soldiers, but it’s actually much more sensible than something like that. It was a joint…
The real reason North Korea’s capture of the USS Pueblo was a disaster for the US
In January 1968 the USS Pueblo, a research ship being used by U.S. Navy intelligence, was captured off the coast of North Korea by the North Koreans. The North Koreans…
The insane way the first cosmonaut got back to Earth
The very first man to go to space was a Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, who rose to the top of his class thanks to his stunning memory, quick reactions, and poise during emergencies. That poise would come in handy since his spacecraft couldn’t surv…
Green Berets and foreign weapons… Like kids in a candy store
One of the perks of having a career in Special Operations units was the chance to be trained…
How a single frat-house tourniquet helped the Soviets kill American spies
A bizarrely ironic tale came to light recently in the wake of the publication of an opinion piece written by Doctors Frank K. Butler and John B. Holcomb in the…