When the Soviet Union needed a fourth-generation ... seven years after the U.S. Air Force was flying the F-15. While the MiG-29 was primarily built to counter the capability of the American ...
He went missing on April 30, 1971 while performing a joint training flight with a Vietnamese pilot on board a Soviet MiG-21S supersonic jet fighter-interceptor. The contact with the aircraft was ...
William Amen, took place on November 9. Both took place in the same area and involved the same opponents — MiG-15 fighter jets flown by Soviet pilots who had been secretly deployed to aid North ...
Ukraine's F-16 pilots have had to quickly get up to speed on a different fighter jet. They're being trained to fly a new plane but also to break habits from flying Soviet jets. An air-warfare expert ...