Author: Michael

The Cold War must have been an amazing time to be a weapons manufacturer for the U.S. government. Like some kind of early Tony Stark (I guess that would be Howard Stark), if you could dream it, you could build it, and chances were very good the CIA would fund it.
From funding LSD tests using prostitutes and their johns (called—no joke—Operation Midnight Climax) to a secret underground ice base in Greenland to trying to build an actual flying saucer, there was literally no end to what the CIA would try.

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If there was one single place that could be called the front lines of the clandestine Cold War, Berlin was it. The city, like the rest of Germany, was divided. It was a bastion, deep inside the heart of the Eastern Bloc, where Westerners could roam relatively freely within their sector by day and sneak into enemy territory under the cover of darkness.
A divided Berlin was the setting for numerous stories, many of which are only now coming to light.

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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Or the third time’s a charm. There are many ways to tell someone not to give up, but perhaps an example of dogged determination is more effective than any pithy slogan. In that case, there’s no better example than Air Force fighter pilot Francis Stanly “Gabby” Gabreski, who almost never got off the ground. But it’s a good thing he did, because he would not only be America’s top figher ace over World War II Europe, but he would also become an ace in the Korean War.
Gabby Gabreski was a Polish-American U.S.

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Pilots from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force have provided details on an incident in which J-16 fighters were deployed to intercept and expel two foreign stealth fighters near China’s coastal waters. Although the adversary fighter type was not stated specifically, the fact that the aircraft was reported by local media to be “of a type that has not appeared near the country’s coastal waters since,” and the common deployment of F-35s near Chinese territory, makes it highly likely that the aircraft in question were U.S. Air Force F-22s.

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