Every missile is a carefully packaged bad day traveling at high speeds. Hypersonic missiles are a modern development ...

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Russia's the only nation with nuclear powered ice breakers, and its latest addition, “Arktika”, is the ...

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Space is expensive. To generate more power and more thrust, rockets need to carry more fuel, increasing the amount ...

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Folks in Washington are all fired up about rockets. Specifically, rocket engines built in Russia and then bought and ...

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When the Soviet Union broke apart, one thing the Russian space program lost was, well, space. Specifically, with the ...

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Robots // 

The secret roach's name was Death's Head, aka Blaberus Cranifer, and it came from Russia on a mission. It is a ...

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