After decades of effort, Soviet engineers finally achieved something few believed possible: a fighter aircraft that could ...

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 ...

For all the yelling and shouting over the Department of Defense’s much-maligned F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, there’s an unusual, often overlooked footnote in the trillion-dollar project’s ...

Runways are undesirable locations for military aircraft. Being tied to miles of concrete gives jet aircraft a built-in vulnerability as well as restricting their flexibility. At sea, it is extremely ...

Summary and Key Points: The Yak-41 (Yak-141) was a Soviet attempt at creating a supersonic VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft, developed in the 1980s but ultimately shelved after the ...