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In 1997, the Pentagon bought 21 Soviet MiG-29 fighters out from under Iran and flew them to Ohio in pieces. The bargain was real,...
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In 1997, the Pentagon bought 21 Soviet MiG-29 fighters out from under Iran and flew them to Ohio in pieces. The bargain was real,...
Russia sends the Su-35 to war more than any other modern fighter, and four years over Ukraine have produced a strange ledger: at least...
The MiG-29K is a genuinely capable carrier fighter — fast, heavily armed, multirole. But its story is Russia's carrier problem in miniature: India, not...
The MiG-29K Was Built for the Admiral Kuznetsov — Russia’s Only Aircraft Carrier Has Spent More Time in Port Than at Sea Built by...
Steve Balestrieri, a former U.S. Army Special Forces NCO and National Security Columnist, evaluates the 1997 "secret deal" that prevented the Islamic Republic of...
Summary and Key Points: The MiG-35 Fulcrum-F is often described as a “zombie program”—a sophisticated fourth-generation “+++” fighter that possesses the technical DNA to...
Summary and Key Points: In the post-Soviet 1990s, U.S.-Russia cooperation on arms control helped fuel a wider nonproliferation push through the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat...
Soviet aircraft continue to outlive the Soviet Union, and the MiG-29 Fulcrum may be the next to stretch its lifespan into a second half-century....
Key Points and Summary – In a “quiet” but high-stakes 1997 operation, the U.S. purchased 21 Soviet-made MiG-29 fighters from Moldova to prevent them...
Key Points and Summary – In 1989, Soviet MiG-29 pilot Alexander Zuyev staged a daring escape from a Black Sea airbase, fighting past guards,...