In the final years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union experimented with a radical new idea a light motor rifle division designed for rapid deployment and extreme mobility. Equipped with trucks and ...
Early Soviet tank development was filled with experimental and often flawed designs that laid the foundation for future ...
pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...
WASHINGTON—U.S. space scientists, frustrated by delays caused by the explosion of the shuttle Challenger, have increasingly pinned their hopes on joint experiments with a thriving Soviet space program ...
A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March 1972 ...