Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

Sukhoi’s T-4MS was a radical stealth bomber concept designed in the 1970s to rival America’s future B-2 Spirit. Capable of Mach 3, flying 18,000 kilometers, and carrying 45 tons of weaponry—including ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall back to our planet. Exactly where or when it will strike, however, remains ...

Joseph Stalin’s plan to modernize the Soviet Union’s economy, beginning in 1928 ... titled “Imagining the Future in Soviet Propaganda Posters: Metaphors of Time as Space.” “After looking at these ...

Andropov, the KGB director and future Soviet leader who spent his ... their fear that if reforms were not executed in the Soviet Union the economy was destined for disaster. Having completed ...

Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union's failed war in Afghanistan helped bring down its empire. Now Russia's faltering war effort in Ukraine is raising doubts about the future of Putin's regime.

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the planet’s harsh environment before succumbing to the intense heat. But this ...

The program's legacy influenced future Soviet designs, but only seven Lyra submarines were built and they were retired by the mid-1990s. The Soviet Union began the Cold War well behind the United ...