The Vietnam-era MiG-17 and MiG-19 represented a utilitarian tube-with ... The new jet will reportedly join the Russian air force in 2016. But the attention of Western analysts—and almost ...

Today, we know most of the North Korean-marked MiG-15s were piloted by battle-hardened fliers of the Soviet air force. Chick Cleveland describes an encounter with a MiG pilot whose skills ...

The Soviet Union's widely exported Mach ... 1955, the first flight of a key progenitor that led to the MiG-21, ... Design ...

The MiG-105-11 drop prototype can be viewed at the Central Air Force Museum in Monino, Russia. While the space war never came in the Cold War era, today, the American, Russian, and Chinese ...

Powering the Su-27 are two Saturn AL-31F turbofan engines, each producing over 27,500 pounds of thrust with afterburners. These engines give the Flanker a top speed exceeding Mach 2.35 (around 1,550 ...