Tag: Cold War

Viggens operating from improvised airstrips in the forest: Cold War in Sweden

In Sweden, almost any strip road is a runway that can be…

On This Day in 1968 A B-52 Crashed in Greenland With Four Hydrogen Bombs

The Thule Air Base Broken Arrow incident. On Jan. 21, 1968, a…

Exclusive: Close encounter with “Ivan”, as seen from inside the Russian spyplane!

Close encounters between Russian strategic bombers, spyplanes and Western fighter jets scrambled…

MiG-25 defection: How a Soviet Pilot Brought a Secret Warplane To The West

The story of Viktor Belenko, a MiG-25 pilot who defected to the…

Soviet, giant Antonov 124 cargo plane production line to be resumed

Even if the news has been around for several years (and always…