It was Valentine's Day 1955 in the erstwhile Soviet Union. On that winter morning - the high was just under -5 degrees Celsius - there was something in the air at Zhukovsky Airfield, an airbase some ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Military aircraft can have notoriously short lifespans, especially during periods of technological ferment. The most elite aircraft of World War I could become ...

Group Captain Suresh Ratnaparkhi struggled to hold back tears as he sat in his wheelchair and stretched his hand out to touch a MiG-21 Bison that had just landed after its last operational sortie at ...

The Indian Air Force's MiG-21, the country's first supersonic fighter and interceptor aircraft, whose induction in the early 1960s catapulted the force into the jet age, will roar in the Indian skies ...

Das Fazit des Magazins über das Flugzeug, mit dem sich auch Wladimir Putin schon stolz fotografieren ließ: In Wirklichkeit sei das fertige Produkt nur eine verbesserte Version der MiG-29 – "keine ...