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The Ilyushin Il-62, developed by the Ilyushin Design Bureau in the early 1960s, was the Soviet Union's first long-haul jet ...

"Nowhere has the role of the partisan been more telling or less understood than during the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War (1941-45) against Nazi Germany. Leonid Grenkevich's book lifts the veil on ...

A 1951 Soviet edition of the 1938 Short Course history of the CPSU(B). Scanned by Ismail, sent to him by an anonymous person. While written by a Commission of the C.C. of the C.P.S.U.(B.), the draft ...

The U-2 found itself at the heart of one of the most fraught periods between the US and the Soviet Union when, in the 1960s, the spy plane was shot down over Russia. Article continues below ...

A mysterious shadow glided over Scotland, soaring at dizzying heights. The legendary 'Dragon Lady' spy plane, a relic of Cold War intrigue, has been spotted.

Trump targets speed-of-sound ban for airliners. By Corbin Hiar | 06/09/2025 06:11 AM EDT . Supersonic jets have been prohibited from flying over U.S. land for a half-century. The president says it ...

Turkmenistan on Thursday said that it has significantly reduced the enormous gas fire burning in the Karakum desert, famously known as the “Gateway to Hell." This fire has been blazing continuously ...

In early 2025, Russian troops seized control of a coal mine crucial to Ukraine’s steel industry. This mine, located on the front line of the disputed city of Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region, is one of ...

The game, which features Soviet and Russian military themes, was released, just days before the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a statement, Ukraine’s deputy minister of digital ...

There are also Soviet 16-bit PDP-11 compatibe single-chip CPUs in DIP-40 (and DIP-48 IIRC) package, that are perfect for homebrew PDP-11 DIY devices. Report comment. Reply. Dennis says: ...