As part of a plan to build a strategic bomber for deep penetration and nuclear bombing runs during the Cold War, North ...

-Engineered to "ride" its own shockwave for fuel efficiency, the massive bomber was a technological masterpiece. However, its development coincided with the dawn of the "missile age." -The rise of ...

The Cold War was a wild era in the development of military technology, especially in the field of aerospace. From nuclear-powered strategic bombers concepts to Manned Orbital Laboratories (MOL) that ...

The Second World War and the global rivalries that followed were events that fueled weapons development like nothing before. In the span of just a few short years, humanity stepped into the jet age, ...

The only remaining XB-70 Valkyrie superbomber is on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The Cold War-era prototype variant of the planned B-70 nuclear-armed strategic ...