Cold war

Early on 8 November 1942, Adolf Hitler’s special train was en route from Berlin to Munich when it was stopped at a small station in the Thuringian Forest to receive an urgent message from the Foreign

At the end of WWII the Japanese Imperial Army Air Force was conscripted into the Royal Air Force in Southeast Asia

The Luftwaffe’s feared ‘destroyer’ long-range fighter met with very mixed success

Artificial intelligence, unmanned squadrons and long-distance strike capability: the arms race for future air superiority is underway

Nearly 30 years after giving them up, the RAF is poised to reacquire air-dropped nuclear weapons

Cold War historian Vladislav Zubok explains why China is a stronger adversary than the USSR at its peak