Everyone’s heard about the Harrier jump jet. Arnold Schwarzenegger used one to blast terrorists in True Lies. The Royal Navy beat him to the punch when it used a few dozen to score twenty air-to-air ...

One of the most innovative fighters of its time, the Yak-38 (NATO reporting name “Forger”) was meant to mark a new chapter in Soviet naval doctrine. Instead, it succeeded only in exposing the ...

Russia's sole aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, has been out of action for years for repairs. Russia's navy and its Soviet predecessor both struggled to keep their aircraft carriers operational.

So much of the western understanding of the capabilities of the Soviet Air Force before the fall of the Berlin Wall resulted from hyperbole and word-of-mouth hype-ups resulting from a deliberate ...

The Yak-3 was one of the best combat aircraft during WWII, not only in the Soviet Union but worldwide as well. The designers made it as light as possible, at the same time significantly increasing its ...

The Yakovlev Yak-141, known in the West as "Freestyle," was the Soviet Union's ambitious attempt to create a supersonic ...

The evolution of Soviet VTOL aircraft tells a story of technological daring, strategic necessity, and Cold War rivalry. From the rudimentary Yak-36 prototype to the cutting-edge supersonic Yak-41, ...