Sergei Krikalev, a Soviet cosmonaut, found himself stranded in space for 311 days during a mission on the “Mir” space station. In total, he spent 803 days, 9 hours, and 39 minutes in space throughout his career. On December 26, 1991, while Krikalev was in space, the Soviet Union was dissolved. Due to the ensuing…
Hedy Lamarr, often hailed as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” was not only an American film star but also a brilliant electronic engineer whose innovations laid the groundwork for modern wireless communication technologies like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Lamarr, a Jewish immigrant from Nazi-occupied Austria, settled in the United States in 1938. Lamarr played…
Suspended in a small turret below a bomber flying at 10 kilometers altitude in freezing temperatures, ball turret gunners faced death every moment as they fired at enemy planes. Only 40% of those who went on these missions returned alive, the rest falling victim to enemy fire in the sky. These gunners had no parachutes…
The Manhattan Project nicknamed the Trinity Test was the most top secret nuclear test conducted by the United States. The movie Oppenheimer was released about it.Only a handful of people knew about it…after the test America dropped the nuclear bomb on Japan. But after this trinity test there was another group in this world who…
In the 1960s, while the United States was constantly trying to touch the moon, the Cold War pushed the Soviet Union to touch Venus. Of the 28 probes they sent in succession, only 13 penetrated the atmosphere of Venus, and of those, Venera 13 was able to take the best color image. They beat America…
A Ballistic Missile’s warheads are attached to the missile (MIRV – Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles. Each of these is a Hydrogen Bomb with an explosive capacity of 300 Kt TNT. That means each one has 20 times the explosive power of the weapon that was dropped on Hiroshima. This missile (LGM-118 Peacekeeper) could carry up…
Item made to detect incoming enemy planes during wartime. Long before radar was invented. It can be quickly turned and lifted in any direction. Name Acoustic Radar
Sar Bomba is the most powerful nuclear weapon tested till date. This thermonuclear bomb was tested by the Soviet Union on October 30, 1961. This giant bomb had an explosive capacity of 50 megatons of TNT. The AN 602 hydrogen bomb, nicknamed Tsar Bomba, was a plan prepared by Khrushchev to convince the United States…
Doesn’t that sound like a joke? But this is the case This is the entrance to a tunnel inside Fort William, Calcutta.Siraj ud Daula, the Nawab of Bengal, after capturing the fort in 1756, kept British prisoners of war in this tunnel. With so many people crammed into such a small space, hardly anyone made…
A missile that can be fired even from a drone without an explosive warhead… The specialty of this is the deadly blades used in it…. This missile that only targets a particular small target and cuts the opponent with these powerful blades… Due to its operation, no damage is caused to anything around the target……
