Soviet Air Force
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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The mysteries behind KAL 007 shooting down: the night Soviet Su-15 fighters shot down a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 over Sakhalin Island
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The story of the Soviet 3M Bison bombers that had to nuke Europe if the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into World War III
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Military Aviation
Two Tu-160s staged a flying display for US observers having the first close look at the Blackjack. But they had to fly with 3 engines because 1 engine failed on both aircraft.
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Civil Aviation / Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The story of Mathias Rust, the German teenager who humiliated the Soviet War Machine by landing his Cessna 172 in Moscow’s Red Square
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The story of the Soviet Su-9 pilots who were ordered to ram Powers’ U-2 (One of them claimed to have downed the U-2 with the wake of his jet by crossing in front of it!)
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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
In 1978 this Korean Air Lines Boeing 707 strayed into Soviet airspace. And a Su-15 Flagon attacked it forcing the airliner to crash land.
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Aviation History / Military Aviation
There Can Be Only One! How the Sukhoi OKB took over the Russian Aircraft Industry.
Civil Aviation / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
World Famous MiGFlug company canceled all Jet Rides in Russia Due to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The story of Adolf Tolkachev, the Phazotron Chief Designer Who Killed Soviet Aircraft Reputation and why the Su-27 proved to be a Poor Air Superiority Fighter in Real Combat
Military Aviation
The MiG-29 Fulcrum: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Mainstay of the Ukrainian Air Force Fighter Fleet
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
B-1B Bone Vs Tu-160 Blackjack: Equals or Not?
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
In the event of WWIII during the Cold War the Soviets would conduct a 3,000-Aircraft Strike against West Germany for three Times a Day, every Single Day of the Conflict
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The story of the low-level flight tactics devised to allow Soviet M-4 and 3M Bison bombers to penetrate NATO air defence system
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Up to eight Cold War-Era MiG-23 Flogger fighter jets to be restored for flight in the US
Aviation Humor / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The EF-10B Skyknight that had a graffiti in Russian language saying ‘Join the U.S. Marine Corps’ painted on fuel tanks so that Soviet MiG pilots could read it during intelligence missions
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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The US Navy fighters that crashed while intercepting Tu-16 Badger reconnaissance aircraft
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
