Nick(Cold+War+Technology)

Cold War Technology

=__**Jets**__=

The cold war started right after world war two in 1945, so a lot of the technologies being developed at the end of the war influenced the cold war. Towards the end of the war the major nations started to develop jets. The Americans had the p80 shooting star and the Soviet Union had the MiG-15. The MiG-15 was better than the p80 because the MiG had swept wings which made it more maneuverable. The first jet dogfight was in 1950 when an American p80 shot down two North Korean MiG-15's. Since the MiG outclassed the P80 the Americans came out with the F-86 Sabre. Then the Soviets came out with the MiG-17 in response to the F-86 and the MiG-17 was just an upgraded MiG-15. Then the Americans came out with the F-100 super Saber which like the the Soviets was just an upgrade from it's predecessor. Then the Soviets came out with one of the most produced fighter jets, the MiG-21. The MiG 21 was the first fighter built with the ability to launch air to air missiles. The MiG-21 is still in service with many third world countries because the soviets just massed produced them. Then the Americans came out with the f-4 phantom which was created to use new long range radar guided missiles. They didn't even put guns on it because they thought it could just shoot the attacker from miles away. This was a bad idea because the missles weren't near as reliable as the were intended to be and the Vietnamese MiGs would come to close and shoot down the Phantoms.

=Space Race=

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The space race began in the fifties when the Soviets sent the first man made satellite, Sputnik 1 into space. The soviets stayed in the lead for the space race until the united states put a man on the moon. Both nations just kept upgrading there rockets and there wasn't any drastic changes. In the 1980's NASA came out with a reusable space shuttle=====

Sources book- The Cold War Ends: 1980 to the present. book- Cold War, Primary Sources