This bird is an enduring symbol of Soviet resistance—and perseverance—during the darkest days of what Russians refer to as ...

During WWII, the Soviet Union experimented with a radical concept—massive bombers carrying fighter planes deep into enemy territory. These "flying aircraft carriers" could launch swarms of fighters ...

it's worth noting that without a specific fighter jet from the USSR, the F-15 might not have come to fruition, at least at the time it did. In 1967, the Soviet Union took to the skies with the ...

Less than two years later, and within weeks of each other, the United States and the Soviet Union introduced single-engine jet fighters with wings swept to 35 degrees, stubby fuselages ...

Nesselrodt cites the case of Herman Kruk, a Jewish librarian and journalist from Warsaw, who dodged German anti-aircraft fire as he made his way to Lithuania, en route to the Soviet Union ...

"In the Soviet Union, attention was paid to aircraft capabilities while no one thought about comfortable conditions in the pilots’ cockpit. For example, fighter aircraft were on combat duty in ...