Millions of Americans who watched Team USA lose an overtime thriller to rival Canada in the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off hockey championship this week got a taste of what it was like in 1980 — but ...
Designed for use in low-or-zero-gravity environments where conventional firearms would not work properly, this magazine-fed, pyrotechnic flashbulb technology generated a laser beam—with one variant ...
When the Su-27 “Flanker” and MiG-29 “Fulcrum” came onto the scene in the 1980s, they represented a significant generational leap in technology compared to earlier Soviet fighters. The missiles they ...
Sometimes you can’t help but feel for Soviet car designers and the cars they were working on. It’s true that some completely fine vehicles made it to production during those times, including the Lada ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former USSR might not be considered a musical hotbed, but a new compilation of rare music from the Soviet Union lifts the veil ...
He pointed out that in the middle of the 1980s, the Soviet Union had called for ending ideological confrontation, overcoming the legacy of the Cold War, and removing the barriers preventing common ...
When the Soviet Union dissolved 30 years ago this month, on December 25, 1991, its end followed decades of economic dysfunction. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, hoping to implement reforms, referred ...