Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Ground effect vehicles combine the characteristics of ships and airplanes and have advantages over both. China's military may ...

In this documentary, we cover the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the most decisive engagements of World War II. Fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from 1942 to 1943, the battle marked a ...

Inducted in 1963, the MiG-21s were once the crown jewels of the IAF, playing a crucial role in nearly every war India fought ...

IT’S BEEN 56 YEARS SINCE HUMANS FIRST SET FOOT ON THE MOON, AND THE JOURNEY CONTINUES RIGHT HERE IN NEW MEXICO TODAY THROUGH ...

The former White House aide recently returned to her roots, advising Britain on defense and taking a role at Durham ...

Step into a gripping real-life story of Cold War espionage by attending “Letters from a Soviet Prison,” a presentation by Francis Gary Powers Jr. at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum in ...

From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to capture the “radical social surgery” enacted by the Bolsheviks that forever ...

America withdrew its troops from Vietnam in 1973 and South Vietnam fell in 1975. The “fall” (or, in the official Vietnamese view the “reunification”) of Saigon was the subject of many 50th anniversary ...

Unfortunately, America’s first Broken Arrow wouldn’t be its last. To date, the U.S. Military has had 32 nuclear weapons ...

Interestingly, Tikhonravov’s dream of a Soviet mission to Mars was based on former Nazi rocket scientist-turned-American rocket scientist, Wernher Von Braun, who had his own “ Mars Project ” that ...

Here is The Republic's top 20 girls track and field athletes all-time list. High school, college and professional success factored into the formula.