The Su-15 fighter pilot gave the customary ‘follow me’ signals, but the big turboprop ignored them and started maneuvering dangerously,… Read More
The Tu-16 Badger made four passes over the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex, and on the last wing… Read More
Unsurprisingly, this almost medieval kit was immediately rejected as too hot, heavy and cumbersome. Advertise The Soviet Union's invasion of… Read More
Lt. (SG) Vasiliy Tsymbal manoeuvred Su-27 Flanker dangerously close to the P-3 Orion and the port fin struck the No.… Read More
Soviet Lt. Viktor Belenko became an instant celebrity when he successfully defected to the West by flying his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25… Read More
Even today, debate continues as to what the KAL Boeing 747 was doing for 2.5 hours in a place where… Read More
This was the only occasion when 3M bombers on quick-reaction alert (QRA) duty actually sat armed with nuclear bombs, ready… Read More
US Air Force representatives who demanded an explanation were told that the Tu-160's engines had several operational modes, not all… Read More
After Mathias Rust’s landing in Red Square, Muscovites joked the place was now Sheremetyevo 3, as Sheremetyevo 1 and 2… Read More
Su-9 pilot Anatoliy Nikolayevich Sakovich was ordered to scramble and intercept, even though his aircraft was carrying no missiles; yet,… Read More
Su-15 pilot Aleksandr I. Bosov fired a single R-98MR missile, reporting an explosion and saying that the target was losing… Read More
During negotiations with Post Soviet Russian President Yeltsin, the head of the then Sukhoi OKB managed to convince the Russian… Read More
“We removed all Russian flights as consequence about the War in Ukraine,” Philipp Schaer, MiGFlug founder. MiGFlug, the famous… Read More
In 1979, Adolf Georgievich Tolkachev, an electronics engineer who was working as one of the chief designers at the Phazotron… Read More
With the news of the EU intending to donate old MiG-29s and Su-25s from different NATO-air forces to Ukraine, we… Read More
The Russian military and many of the world's top aviation experts believe that the combination of the Tu-160's performance and… Read More
Essence of the V-FA's plan for fighting the NATO was a 1,000-aircraft strike down every of three major axes over… Read More
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