When the MiG-25 Foxbat was unveiled, Western intelligence went into panic mode. A fighter that could outrun anything, fly ...

The Soviet Union and Russian Federation even built bombers that exceeded Mach 2. Some of their fighter jets, like the MiG-31, ...

In fact, stemming back to the Soviet era, realistic stats concerning specs and capabilities of defense platforms were often exaggerated. When the USSR debuted the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 “Foxbat ...

It is estimated that the Russian Air Force has likely lost at least 100 fixed-wing combat planes. The sheer number of ...

Tensions between India and Pakistan have risen sharply in the weeks since a terrorist attack in Kashmir. On Wednesday, India ...

MOSCOW, December 17. /TASS/. Over the past 24 hours, Russian air defense systems shot down two MiG-29 aircraft, one Su-25, and 91 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the Ukrainian Armed Forces ...

MOSCOW, June 11. /TASS/. Russia’s air defenses downed a Mikoyan MiG-29 and a Sukhoi Su-25 aircraft in the past day, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said on ...

The MiG was an ominous sign: China’s involvement in Korea was increasing, and Soviet technology was spreading. For the crews strapping into the lumbering Superfortresses, the jets slashing ...

Troops march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade at the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St. Petersburg, ...

It’s one of 17 MiG-29s the U.S. government purchased from the former Soviet state of Moldova in 1997, a deal that kept the jets from being sold to Iran. The loose confederation that replaced the ...

The Soviet MiG-15bis and the American F-86 Sabre pushed aviation technology to its limits during the Korean War. When they met in dogfights over the Yalu River, in an area nicknamed MiG Alley ...