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

A Soviet-era plane carrying 48 people crashed in Russia’s far east on Thursday as it was preparing to land, killing everyone on board. The Antonov An-24, made in 1976, was spotted by a search ...

The ANT-9 was one of the Soviet Union’s first major aviation breakthroughs. This video explores how it helped shape the ...

Sukhoi, one of the Soviet Union’s premier aviation groups, built many noteworthy and impressive jets for the USSR in the twentieth century, and today does the same for Russia. One... Here’s What You ...

Building an aircraft industry -- The Moscow aircraft production organisation and beyond -- Soviet Cold War production -- Design bureaux and production plants -- Engine design and development -- Soviet ...

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

The newest addition to Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field will make its public debut on Saturday. The World War II-era Ilyushin Il-2M3 Shturmovik (IL-2) will take to the skies as ...

Fighter planes get a lot of press. Fast, sleek, and impossibly advanced, the image of the knights of the sky dueling to the death in their cockpits is a highly romanticized facet of aerial warfare.