In the final years of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union raced to counter American air dominance, Sukhoi pursued one of the ...

Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the back foot ...

Pumping out warplanes by the tens of thousands, the USSR manufactured and deployed an astonishing number of military aircraft in its sixty-nine years of existence. With the defeat of Hitler, a tense ...

NATO air planners looking east during the Cold War faced a vast, intimidating armada of bombers and attack aircraft. With superior numbers, the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact nations ...

India's Russian-built MiG-21s flew for the final time Friday, marking the end of an era for the country's first supersonic fighter jet -- lauded for its valour but tarnished by a legacy of some 400 ...

On Nov. 7, 1944, that convergence produced the only acknowledged direct combat between American and Soviet forces in World ...

The Foxbat could fly at extreme speeds—but in doing so, it would risk damage to the airframe and engines, which were far less sophisticated than their American counterparts. The National Museum of the ...

India's Russian-built MiG-21s flew for the final time, marking the end of an era for the country's first supersonic fighter jet - Copyright AFP Arun SANKAR India's ...