On the first day alone, an astonishing 2000 Soviet aircraft were destroyed on the ground. Emerging from this calamity over the brutal years of the Great Patriotic War, the VVS returned with ever ...
The Russian military flights came after Russia and its quasi-ally, China, sent their nuclear-capable bombers for a joint ...
Soviet aircraft designer Artem Mikoyan, one of the founders of the Mikoyan military aircraft design bureau later transformed into Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG, was born on August 5 ...
Earlier in September, Russian military aircraft flew around southern Japanese ... which the former Soviet Union seized from Japan at the end of World War II. The feud has prevented the two ...
Putin of Russia last year after U.S. intelligence agencies said a Russian military unit was preparing to send explosive packages on cargo planes. By David E. Sanger David E. Sanger has covered ...
Russian planes have reportedly bombed rebel-held targets in the Syrian province of Idlib, as government troops mass before an expected offensive. If confirmed, they would be the first such air ...