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Did the Soviet Union quarantine shipment of Jupiter and Thor missiles to Italy and Turkey?
If not a quarantine, did Soviet Union publicly condemn the placement by Eisenhower before the Bay of Pigs Invasion or before the Cuban Missile Crisis?
If there was no quarantine, was it because ...
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Why were there so many 'carrier killer' Kh-22 anti-ship missiles in Ukraine in the 1990s?
Ukraine is said to have scrapped 423 Kh-22 large anti-ship ('carrier killer') cruise missiles in the 1990s, together with some 60 strategic bombers that could carry & launch these. (This was due ...
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Which Soviet submarine was HMS Splendid tracking on 30th March 1982?
In 'Vulcan 607', R. White describes the background of the submarines that headed to the Falkland Islands. For the HMS Splendid, he notes that the submarine, under CO Lane-Nott was engaged in a mission ...
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Did the Soviet ever attempt "innocent passage" thru American waters?
In 1986 and 1988, the US Navy sent warships into Soviet Crimean Sea territorial waters as exercises of innocent passage (which essentially means that you can sail through an unfriendly nation's waters ...
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Was PepsiCo really sixth largest military force?
There are several claims on the internet that for a brief time PepsiCo owned the sixth largest military force in the world. You can read about it, e.g., at Wikipedia.
This seems quite fishy to me, so ...
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Has a hostile submarine transitted the Bosphorus submerged?
In WW1, the British submarine E-11 entered the Golden Horn, but apparently not the Bosphorus, and in this old thread on Usenet there are references to WW1 and fiction.
According to a recent article ...
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Why did navies abandon armour?
Over the Cold War the many navies of the world moved away from significantly armoring their ships besides splinter protection for some vital spaces, with a few exceptions. What prompted the shift from ...
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Did the U.S. and Soviet Union have a submarine battle in 1968?
There are books and articles about the Soviet submarine K-129 and the USS Scorpion in 1968, with various stories of attempted nuclear attacks and reprisals. Is there a factual narrative about these ...
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