During the Cold War, two Soviet pilots handed the West priceless insights by flying their jets to freedom. In 1976, Viktor ...

Conceived as a lighter, cheaper counterpart to the Su-27 and a foil to America’s F-16, Mikoyan’s MiG-29 was built for ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. A few months back Mike Ballaban posted one of the coolest combat aircraft videos of the year, called 'Fulcrum Drivers,' that put us right into the ...

What You Need to Know: At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. secretly acquired 21 MiG-29 warplanes from Moldova to prevent their potential sale to Iran, fearing that... Five Facts About the Mikoyan MiG ...

Sixteen MiG-29s of the Serbian Air Force opposed NATO’s bombing campaign over Kosovo in 1999. Deployed at medium altitude, where they were exposed to hostile radar, five were shot down by F-15s and ...

Americans are accustomed to calling military aircraft by a name other than the F-22 or F35, so those jets are commonly referred to as the Raptor or Lightning II. Not every world power follows this ...