Armed with nuclear-tipped rockets, the F-89 Scorpion was one of the most unique Cold War interceptors. Designed to take down entire bomber formations, this jet packed serious firepower.

How the invention of the jet engine transformed Britain after the Second World War and came to capture the imagination of a generation and define how the Cold War was fought.

Indeed, the concept appears to have peaked during the second half of the Cold War. Today’s newer aircraft on both sides of the old Iron Curtain—including America’s F-22 and F-35, Russia’s ...

an engineering marvel developed during the Cold War to replace vulnerable spy planes like the U-2. Capable of Mach 3.2 and equipped with stealth features, this aircraft could outrun missiles and ...

Unlike other Cold War aircraft, built with aggressively swept wings, the A-1 featured perfectly straight, low-mounted wings. The straight wings allowed for adept maneuvering at low speeds ...

(Staff Sgt. Natalie Fiorilli/Air Force) FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida — Air Force Special Operations Command has dubbed its newest aircraft Skyraider II, a nod to the Cold War-era propeller plane ...

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...

But Hitler's Nazi menace would soon be replaced by a new threat to world peace as the Soviet Union and the United States faced off in the Cold War ... But in the mid-1950s events would unfold ...