Aleksandr Shabalin: What We Know About Russia's Ropucha-Class Landing Ship

The Aleksandr Shabalin is a Ropucha-class landing ship that entered service in 1985 and has served in the Soviet and Russian ...
The National Interest

The Soviet Union Built a Titanium Submarine. Why Didn’t America?

Despite its impressive nature, the Lira-class was in no real way a strategic game-changer for the Soviets in their bid to defeat the West—and its costs were immense. During the Cold War, many radical ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis - How Nuclear War Was Avoided

In October 1962, the world narrowly escaped a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union. US President John F. Kennedy ...

The Massive Soviet Turboprop Bomber That's Been In Service Over 70 Years

The Soviet version of the B-29 Superfortress is a beast in its own right, and it's still going over 70 years later. The ...
SlashGear

The Booze Carrier: The Story Of The Vodka-Cooled Soviet Jet

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The history of Soviet era weapons and warfare is brimming with interesting tales of success, failure, and weird human behavior. The MiG-25 had ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Legendary submarine commander Charlie MacVean dies in San Diego at 88

Charlie MacVean, a submarine commander revered by the U.S. Navy for the daring spy missions he carried out against the Soviet Union during the Cold War era, died of natural causes in San Diego on Sept ...