In the final years of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union raced to counter American air dominance, Sukhoi pursued one of the most radical fighter concepts ever attempted. Reviving an idea first explored ...

The Soviet Union lasted a mere sixty-nine years (the Spitfire has been flying longer), but in that time produced some of the largest, fastest, toughest and most agile aircraft ever created. Even now, ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin says building a modern civil aircraft industry has required a strategic rethink from the Soviet era, when civil aircraft design was largely influenced by military ...

The A-4 Skyhawk was designed as a small and nimble dogfighter—the same design principles used for Soviet aircraft, making it useful as a stand-in. The aircraft people remember from the film Top Gun is ...

Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the back foot by the German invasion on 22 June 1941. On the first day alone, an ...