This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

The Soviet soldier never saw him. Neither did the one after that, or the next, or the hundreds who followed. Simo Häyhä ...

When one thinks of the Soviet Union’s early Cold War-era heavy bombers, especially ones with the alphanumeric designation ending in “-4,” chances are the Tupolev Tu-4 (NATO reporting name “Bull”) ...

The terms "nuclear explosions" and "peace" don't exactly sound alike. Yet, that's exactly what transpired merely a few decades ago, when the Soviet Union deployed nuclear weapons to extinguish oil ...

The U.S. Army is widely known for its helicopter fleet, filled with some of the most advanced helicopters in the world. The Apache and Black Hawk are chief among these, but the fastest helicopter in ...

Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the back foot by the German invasion on 22 June 1941. On the first day alone, an ...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference, Feb. 9, 1945. Credit: UK National Archives Eight decadess ago, on ...