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The Su-27’s Legacy for the Russian Air Force
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 ...
RDAF F-35s have started supporting the Quick Reaction Alert service intercepting a Russian Il-20 Coot-A over the Baltics. Last week, Royal Danish Air ...
Seven months after their combat debut in August, Ukraine’s Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters are flying sorties every ...
An “unknown airplane over the Baltic Sea flying without a flight plan or activated transponder” and presenting a hazard to civil air traffic was an unwelcome Russian surveillance aircraft. According ...
One of Ukraine’s two SAMP/T surface-to-air missile batteries has shot down a Russian warplane ... “There is a confirmed aircraft,” Yuriy Ihnat, a Ukrainian air force spokesman, said at ...
North Korea appears to be upgrading its air force, as a website specialised ... on some Chinese airborne early warning aircraft, but not used on US or Russian aircraft. “This could indicate ...
The unnamed pilot describes how the different kinds of Western aircraft and ammunition are helping Ukraine to counter ...
Credit: Robert Wall/AW&ST The Royal Australian Air Force is looking to crystallize its plans around collaborative combat aircraft in the coming months as it also aims to introduce several new ...
Russia’s air defense systems have shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. "The air defense systems destroyed one MiG ...
Ukraine’s air force said it destroyed 65 out of 111 drones ... At least two people were killed and 25 injured in Kharkiv after a Russian drone strike targeted a military hospital, shopping ...
Ukraine used European-supplied F-16s and French-built Mirage-2000 aircraft ... Counter Air as well as air-to-ground missions. Ukraine's air force says the overnight Russian attack primarily ...