The MiG-29 and Su-27 were the Soviet Union's iconic fighter jets of the Cold War, but these dogfighters served sometimes very ...

But for the most part, the MiG-27 was a domestically flown Soviet and later Russian aircraft. The MiG-27 adopts the MiG-23 airframe but features a modified nose cone. Additionally, it does away ...

However, the MiG is not actually the most widely ... With 325 active aircraft, the Mi-24/35 is the backbone of Russia’s attack helicopter force. The Su-27 Flanker, introduced in 1985, is an ...

Russia maintains one of the world’s largest and most formidable fleets of combat aircraft on the planet, and it is primarily ...

This year has seen President Vladimir Putin repeatedly brandish the nuclear sword, reminding everyone that Russia has the ...

TASS/. Russian forces struck nine Ukrainian Su-27 and MiG-29 fighter jets over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

All of the world's top five most common fighter jets are fourth-generation fighters (although the F-35 will soon be on the ...

A Tumansky R-27 or R-29 ... While the MiG-23 held its own against rival U.S. systems, it simply did not balance well against ...

North Korea possesses little more than obsolete fighter jets, and it is unlikely to be able to aid the much more modern ...

Ukraine’s older but sturdier, Soviet-inherited MiG-29 Fulcrums and Su-27 Flankers survived in large part because Kyiv adeptly dispersed them to smaller makeshift runways to survive Russian air ...

MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/. A Russian MiG-31 fighter of the Northern Fleet’s air defense quick reaction alert forces was scrambled for the second straight day to intercept a Norwegian Air Force P-3C ...

Russian MIG fighter jets launched five "Kinzhal" hypersonic ballistic missiles on the military airfield at Starokostiantyniv in western Ukraine on consecutive mornings of Sept. 26 and 27.