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Former Cold War missile facility converted into Airbnb

The facility at Titan Ranch in Vilonia, Arkansas, was one of 18 such underground sites built in the state as part of…

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Back to the Drawing Board: the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter

It was a futuristic-looking aircraft, which Lockheed publicised as ‘a missile with a man in it’.…

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REVIEW – The Elite: the story of special forces – from Ancient Sparta to the War on Terror

Fiennes had picked his moment well. Ever since the dramatic Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980, the press, and to some degree the…

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Back to the Drawing Board: the T-64 Tank

Although its ‘high-tech’ features, such as an auto-loader for the main armament and its ultra-compact multi-fuel engine, were superficially impressive, they proved…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: B-52 storage area, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona

The boneyard here at Davis-Monthan was established in 1946 to store WWII bombers and transports.…

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Back to the Drawing Board: the Davy Crockett ‘Tactical’ Nuke

In the 1950s, the Cold War was at its height. To many, it seemed to be a question of when, rather than…

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The Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Revolution of January 1959, the Bay of Pigs Invasion of April 1961, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962…

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RAF Museum London: into the future

Seema Syeda reviews the newly remodelled RAF Museum. Museums, I thought in a rather prosaic way as I sat underneath the bomb…


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