A mystery persisted for decades surrounding the identity of the pilots flying Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jets during the Korean ...
The MiG-29 and Su-27 were the Soviet Union's iconic fighter jets of the Cold War, but these dogfighters served sometimes very ...
North Korea, which has reportedly dispatched ground troops to join Russia's war against Ukraine, has also sent fighter pilots ...
The Cold War was an unusual time to be alive, with children practicing duck and cover drills in school and apprehension of ...
The United States acquired 21 MiG-29s from Moldova in 1997 to prevent them from being sold to Iran. The U.S. used the ...
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 ...
The SR-71 Blackbird, known for being the fastest crewed jet in history, evaded over 4,000 missiles during its service.
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 ...