Despite its poor record, 5,000 Floggers were produced, and the fighter remains in limited use with countries like Syria and North Korea. The MiG-23 is one awful fighter, and the U.S. Air Force ...

Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the ...

In the case of the MiG-29 fighter jet, NATO gave it the reporting name "Fulcrum." A fulcrum, according to Merriam-Webster, is "the support about which a lever turns." A pivot. "Fulcrum" aptly ...

What You Need to Know: Developed in the late 1960s to counter U.S. aircraft like the F-4 Phantom II and the F-105 Thunderchief, the Soviet Mikoyan MiG-23 “Flogger ...

It also has a 9-A-768 23-mm gun. Source: The National Interest and Globalsecurity.org. There have been multiple accounts of MiG-31 fighters chasing away SR-71s, the legendary high-altitude US spy ...

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

LUKHOVITSY (Moscow Region), January 27. /TASS/. Russia’s entire light fighter aviation will soon be armed with Mikoyan MiG-35 (NATO reporting name: Fulcrum-F) aircraft, Russian Aerospace Force ...