Few combat aircraft have been produced in numbers comparable to the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21. Conceived during the height of the Cold War, the MiG-21 was designed to be fast, simple, and affordable, ...

Key Points and Summary - During the Cold War, two Soviet pilots handed the West priceless insights by flying their jets to freedom. In 1976, Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 Foxbat in Japan, letting U ...

The MiG-21 currently serves in eighteen air forces worldwide, including two members of NATO (Romania and Croatia). Fishbeds flew in about forty other air forces (counting is difficult because ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. f4 phantom Twenty years prior to 1969 most air forces had been flying piston-engined fighters essentially no different from those ...

Korean War fighter pilot and Escondido resident Royce Williams will be awarded the Medal of Honor, it was announced Wednesday. Williams, now 100 years old and a retired Navy captain, will be ...

Israel shot down a Syrian fighter jet after it entered the country's airspace on Tuesday, an Israeli Defense Forces spokesman told NBC News, adding that the plane was thought to be a MiG. It would be ...

April 18, 2026: After the Cold War ended some countries continued to develop fifth generation aircraft, the following included: F-22 Raptor 2005 - Advanced stealth air superiority fighter with ...

ASRAAM is primarily a within-visual-range (WVR) air dominance missile having a strike range above 25 km. Reports indicate that the Ministry of Defence issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) on March 25 ...