For decades, Soviet aviation pushed the boundaries of what was possible, launching an array of ambitious designs into the skies, from pioneering jet fighters to colossal transports. Yet, beneath the ...

In the 1960s, Soviet engineer Robert Bartini envisioned an aircraft unlike anything else - a flying machine that could take ...

I'm standing outside a locked gate and a barbed-wire fence. This is definitely the right place. Through the fence I can see some Soviet-era helicopters. The closest even says "CCCP" (the Russian ...

When a Soviet-state-owned aerospace manufacturer is demanded by the Communist Party to build an aircraft, it gets done no matter how dumb the concept is in theory. This authoritarian approach to the ...

A retired pilot recalls a terrifying Soviet missile lock on his SR-71. See how the tech behind spy planes now monitors ...

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was doing everything it could to gain the upper hand over the United States. One area where it was attempting to do this was in the supersonic bomber ...

At the North Pole last week it rained, and the three big Soviet planes beside the base camp sank slightly into the mushy surface of the ice floe. The fourth plane, which came down 40 miles away ...

In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a high-altitude U.S. U-2 spy airplane and captured pilot Francis Gary Powers. Aviation Week parroted the U.S. government’s statement that the aircraft was down due ...