The Cold War-era nuclear-capable R-33 long-range air-to-air missile was designed to destroy large strategic bombers and supersonic targets, such as the B-52 Stratofortress, the SR-71 Blackbird and ...

Russia held a public exercise involving a nuclear-capable R-33 air-to-air missile. Nuclear armed air-to-air missiles were produced during the Cold War, but fell out of favor as missiles became ...

complementing the R-33 missile deployed to shoot down U.S. strategic bombers and spy planes. The improved R-37M can achieve hypersonic speeds (up to Mach 6) and has a maximum range of around 250 ...

There was no practically chance the aircraft could avoid an R-33 missile.” After this interception Blackbirds reportedly began to fly their reconnaissance missions from outside the borders of ...

complementing the R-33 missile deployed to shoot down U.S. strategic bombers and spy planes. The improved R-37M can achieve hypersonic speeds (up to Mach 6) and has a maximum range of around 250 ...

Wednesday marks the 33rd anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s historic “Star Wars” speech, in which he introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to the American people. The intent was to ...

The Cold War-era nuclear-capable R-33 long-range air-to-air missile was designed to destroy large strategic bombers and supersonic targets, such as the B-52 Stratofortress, the SR-71 Blackbird and ...

Today, when a ballistic missile fired from anywhere in the world can reach the United States within 33 minutes, Reagan’s bold vision for a multi-layered missile defense system is more necessary ...